Feeling overwhelmed, scattered, or emotionally heavy lately? You're not alone—and you're not imaging it. In this powerful episode of Spirit Speakeasy, we’re diving into 7 soul-aligned, grounding truths to help you stay regulated, centered, and spiritually connected during chaotic times.
Whether you're absorbing collective grief, reeling from world events, or just feeling energetically “off,” this conversation offers deep reassurance and real spiritual tools—not just surface-level tips. These truths are designed to bring you back to yourself and help you reconnect with your inner wisdom in practical ways, even when everything around you feels uncertain.
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- Why your nervous system is sacred space—and how to honor it
- How to recognize and release energy that isn’t yours
- The surprising power of micro-actions when the world feels too big
- How to connect with your spiritual support team (even when you feel disconnected)
- Why stillness isn’t escapism—it’s strategy
- The truth about spiritual bypassing in emotional times
- How your frequency really is a force of light
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Joy, hey, beautiful soul, welcome to spirit
speakeasy. I'm Joy Giovanni,joyful medium. I'm a working
psychic medium, energy healerand spiritual gifts mentor. This
podcast is like a seat at thetable in a secret club, but with
mediums, mystics and thespiritual luminaries of our
time. So come behind the velvetropes with me and see inside my
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world as I chat insider stylewith profoundly gifted souls, we
go deep, share juicy stories,laugh a lot, and it wouldn't be
a speakeasy without greatinsider secrets and tips. You
might even learn that you havesome gifts of your own so step
inside the spirit. Speak Easy.
Hey, beautiful souls, welcomeback, or welcome in for another
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episode of spirit speakeasy. Inthis week's episode, we are
gonna go over seven groundingtruths for chaotic times. How to
Stay spiritually aligned whenthe world feels upside down. If
you have been feeling offlately, perhaps more drained.
Maybe you feel more reactive,like your emotions are right on
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top, perhaps you feel scatteredlike you can't keep track of why
you're in this room or what youjust were doing, even numb in
some cases, I just want you toknow that you're not alone.
There is so much happeningaround us. I'm not going to hash
it all up again, because we allknow what a lot of it is. There
are world events happening.
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There are natural disastershappening, political tension in
multiple countries, not just theUS and Canada. There are
emotions happening in ourcollective, deep grief, in the
collective and even turmoil. Sowhether you follow the news or
not, you're definitely feelingit energetically, and we're
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going to talk all about it. Butcan we please normalize
spiritual exhaustion andemotional overwhelm, especially
for intuitives, empaths andhealers, I think often we're
just all expected to keep itpushing, to keep our heads down
and moving forward. And I thinknot acknowledging it is just not
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real for us that are sensitive,because we're feeling it so
palpably, even as someone whoworks with the spirit world,
every day, I spend time inmeditation. Almost every day, I
feel the subtle energies aroundus, and I can pretty often, have
a lot of tools to focus myenergy, focus my awareness. But
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even for me, as someone who hasbeen in this work and has all of
these tools, I feel thisheaviness too, so that's why
today I want to offer sevengrounding truths. These are not
shallow tips, but they are real,Soul aligned tools that can help
you find stability and spiritualconnection, even in the midst of
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the unknown. Because I thinkthat's part of what's so hard,
is that we are experiencingthings that we've never
experienced. There are thingshappening that are unprecedented
across the board in multipleareas, and our future feels
unknown or uncertain in a lot ofcases. Now we can say like,
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yeah, okay, but do we everactually know the future? Are
things ever truly predictable?
Possibly No. But we do oftenfeel like, you know, if things
have been pretty steady, if wehave a steady job, if we're, you
know, used to being able to goabout our day to day, we get
this, almost like illusion orcomfort, that things are stable.
Things are steady and right now,everything feels unsteady,
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unknown, upside down. And as Igo through these seven truths, I
just invite you to see where youcan see yourself in them,
perhaps where you can see othersaround you in these truths. And
hopefully this will give you alittle bit of something to focus
on. So when things do feelchaotic, whether it's in the
world at large or in our own,family groups, friend groups,
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community groups, etc, we reallydo have some tools to hang on
to, and some of them involvesome like actual tips and
strategies and things to do, andsome of them are just things to
remember. So I'm going to diveright in with this Truth Number
one, your nervous system issacred space. We don't always
think about it like this. I knowwe talk about here often that we
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are spiritual beings, having ahuman experience in this human
form, right?
But we don't often talk aboutbeing dysregulated and how that
affects us as spiritual beings.
Regulation matters energeticallyand spiritually, not just
physically. The body is spirit'sholding place almost and
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certainly a tuning fork for usto feel emotions. Feel things
around us to understand thosesubtle energies, but when we are
dysregulated, it feels reallyhard to receive guidance. So
when we talk about regulatingour energy, what we're really
talking about is tending to thisintersection of our nervous
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system and our spiritual field.
I know here we talk about theauric field and the energetic
body, so really, just balancingout or tending to that
intersection of our nervoussystem and our spiritual body,
the physical body and the soulbody. Let's just say it that
way. In chaotic times, it iseasy to stay in a chronic state
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of that fight, flight, freeze,or even fawn, where our nervous
systems are on alert. I don'tknow about you, but I have, at
times, found myself like reallychecking the news pretty
frequently. I go in and out ofthis. I give myself breaks as
well. But we really can becomeat a place where we're just in
this state of alert all thetime, scanning for threats over
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stimulated often and sometimesfor some of us, in certain
instances, that can even pushover into just being totally
shut down. The problem is, inthis state, we become
energetically, like leaky,almost more reactive, right?
Instead of receivinginformation, letting it land,
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processing it, feeling our ownemotions and choosing how to
respond, we can become veryreactive, very lit up in our
emotions. You might even benoticing more kind of bickering
everywhere you go, whetheronline or in person. We often
feel disconnected from ourintuition, from guidance, from
that which we know to be truewithin us, and we also become
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more vulnerable to absorbingother people's emotions or
feeling them unconsciously, ismaybe the way I should say it.
We're consciously feelingsomething, but we're unconscious
that we are taking otherpeople's emotions into our auric
field. When I was doing a lot ofhealing work with clients, I
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started explaining it to clientsas like other people's dirty
socks getting stuck on yourauric field, because we do pick
up all of this energy andemotions and other people's
quote, unquote stuff as we gothrough the world. So what does
regulated energy feel like? Itfeels like these are not going
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to be exactly right words foreverybody, but hopefully you can
see how they make sense in yourspace. It's a sense of being
centered in our body, notoutside of our body, but like in
our body, feeling our feelings,not reacting, but steady. When
we are properly regulated, weare able to respond rather than
react. We are emotionallyavailable, but not overwhelmed,
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right? We're spirituallyconnected and intuitively clear,
or at least intuitively aware,like we're feeling our
intuitions, even if we're notalways taking the guidance. I'm
going to give you threepractices to regulate your
energy, spiritually andphysically. The first of these
practices is anchor in your bodyfirst. Now I know that
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oftentimes we can just want tofeel or grab or snatch for that
subtle energy, right? But thereason we need to ground in our
body first is because our bodyis kind of this antenna for
energy while we're in a physicalbody. So if we're floating in
these mental loops or we're notpresent, we're drifting off into
this stressful thought or energyof of Yeah, kind of rehashing
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for me. Sometimes it's likewriting the same email 30 times
because I just am so lit upabout what I how I want to
respond. Does that ever happenfor you? So if we're having
these types of things happening,our energy and our energetic
signals, that intuitive nudge,for example, can feel fuzzy,
right? Not as clear. We're notas available for it. So there's
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a couple of things you could trythis. First tip is essentially
press your feet into the floor,like two feet on the floor, if
you can, if your physical bodyallows for that, and Name five
things that you can physicallysee or feel right now. So
oftentimes it's looking aroundthe room and just naming one
thing you can see, one thing youcan hear, one thing that's solid
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in the space where you are. Andget yourself to five, this
really brings you present. Andthen once you feel present, you
can do that exercise we'vetalked about before, where you
put your hand on your chest andone on your belly, or even just
one hand, if that's best foryou, and just take some simple
breaths and say to yourself, I'mhere. I'm safe. I can choose how
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I show up in this moment,because we're bringing our
energy back to center. Insteadof having it scattered and and
reaching for information outsideof us, we want to just bring
everything right back intocenter. You. Another easy tip,
or quick, simple tip to hang onto for getting more regulated is
using your breath as a tuningfork. Breath is one of the
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fastest tools to reset ourfrequency. Think of it as almost
like clearing static from yourenergy field. With each exhale,
you can release what's notserving you, what doesn't belong
to you. So you can try thissimple method of like, what's
called square breathing, whichis essentially you inhale for
whatever your natural breath is.
Mine's about four. Some peoplehave much longer inhale and
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exhale, but comfortable. Itdoesn't have to be a stretch for
you. So you'd inhale for four,the count of four, you'd hold
for the count of four, you'dexhale for the count of four,
and then you'd hold for thecount of four. So that's why
it's a square, because you'recounting and each you know, if
it's six for you, it's inhalefor the count of six, pause for
the count of six, exhale for thecount of six, pause for the
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count of six, then back toinhale. So it's really great,
even just if you for twominutes, can do this breathing
pattern, it really starts toregulate you and bring you back
energetically into your body. Sotwo minutes is great for that.
You can also hum, or just likesigh audibly, right? You could
chant, if you're into chanting,these activate that vagus nerve
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which signals to your systemit's okay to come out of this
fight, flight, Fauci fleasurvival mode. This is a little
different than this tip ofpersonally for me, rather than
the breath or the chanting orthe humming, I like to sway my
physical body, there's somethingfor me about gently swaying back
and forth. And I also feel likeit's not very noticeable. I do
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it in public a lot. You might ifyou ever watch the video version
of this, or watch me on video inany way, or teaching, or even
we're doing the healings, if youever see me gently swaying,
sometimes it is just a calmingmechanism for me. And the third
little tip here is, be thegatekeeper of what enters your
field, so almost heading thingsoff at your own personal gate of
your auric field, so to speak.
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In chaotic times, energeticboundaries can get thin, porous,
if you will, and we're not meantto carry it all, and certainly
not all at once. So you couldeven make a practice of asking
yourself daily. Maybe it's inthe evening, maybe it's at
lunchtime, what's mine to holdand what's not? Essentially,
what kind of energy am Iallowing in, whether it's
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through conversations, throughmedia, through scrolling, even
thoughts, perhaps it's thosewater cooler conversations that
you're maybe not going to be aparticipant in anymore. For you,
once you get clear about what amI allowing in? What am I taking
in? And you can't even do alittle guided visualization for
yourself, where you're imaginingyour auric field, your personal
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space bubble, as just filledwith golden light, and imagine
any unhealed or unhelpful orenergy that doesn't belong to
you, almost like leaving flowingout of your space like a mist or
like a smoke or a fog, and justbreathe yourself back into
clarity. Energetic regulationreally helps with intuitive
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clarity, and when our energy isjust regulated, guidance from
our spirit guides our higherself, our loved ones on the
other side our intuition. Itfeels really hard to sense that
guidance when we're lit up inour energy, or it can feel
distorted almost where we're notentirely sure, oh, is this the
right choice? Is this not theright choice? If you ever feel
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like that, the first step is totry these personal regulatory
tools. Or if you have adifferent one, I would love it
if you share it. But when weregulate even just a little bit,
even if it's like two minutes ofthat breathing we talked about,
it's like turning down thatstatic. For those of you that
remember when TV used to havestatic and turning dialing your
radio to almost like a moreclear signal, a more tapped in,
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tuned in signal, and you canfeel it, see it, sense it more
clearly, okay? Truth Number two,not all the energy you feel is
yours. I have had a stream ofclients, probably since the
beginning of the year, and I'veheard in various ways, from
different people, differenthumans, because we're all
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different, that people are justfeeling off. They're feeling
like they're overly emotional,or a heaviness on their heart,
or even a heaviness on theirback with no physical problem, a
heaviness in their energy. Somepeople describe it as feeling
like a little dark cloud is overthem. Some people describe it as
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feeling less hopeful, right? Butjust bringing your awareness to
this idea that not all theenergy that you feel actually
belongs to you. So we've talkedabout this before that we have
this auric field, this personalspace bubble. You can go back
and listen to the aura 101video, if you want that teaching
in like an expanded way. Yes,but we are these empathetic,
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energetic beings, and with thisauric field that we have, and
with all of our sensitivities,if you're into the chakra
system, it's also happeningthrough that we're perceiving
information subtly all the time,energetic information. We do
hear and see things you knowwith our physical senses,
obviously, but there's otherinformation we're always taking
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in. So if you were, for example,to be in a conversation with
someone, let's just say at yourwork, and the person just
telling you about their weekend,your physical body, your
energetic body, your auricfield, is also sensing the
emotions about what they'retalking about. And they might
not say, Oh, I had a really goodtime, but through their
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expression, you're feeling, oh,okay, this was a positive
experience for them, or Oh,okay. I know that they said this
was a party, but something musthave happened because they sat.
They feel really stressed out asthey're telling this. So we are
constantly discerning otherpeople's information. It's part
of being a natural healer, anempath, an intuitive and most
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people will say like, Well, I'mnot intuitive. I don't know if I
have that, but if you've everbeen able to have caring,
compassion, empathy for howanother feels, you have it. And
we're all sensitive. So even ifyou don't feel like you do, you
do have it when we are carryingaround other people's emotions
and energies like that aren'tours. First of all, it's
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typically not helpful uscarrying around a heaviness for
someone else as they're goingthrough stress doesn't help
their stress, right? Perhapssupporting them in a different
way could but just carryingaround or taking on and trying
to help to carry emotions thatare ours really isn't helpful to
anyone. So the first thing topractice here with this not all
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the energy you feel is yours, isto start understanding what
energy and emotions are yours,and what do not belong to you,
what belong to someone else. Soif you're having a feeling, an
emotion rising up, maybe itdoesn't even feel like it's
rising up. Maybe you're cruisingthrough your morning and you
just feel in a littlelackluster, right? You're just
feeling a little meh. I don't, Idon't feel amazing. Ask
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yourself, what part of what I'mfeeling is mine. Meaning you
could check in and say, like, Issomething going on that's making
me feel a little down, besidesthe state of the world right
now? No, you know, I had a niceexchange with my partner this
morning. Kids off to school.
Good. Everything feels okay. Ihave this meeting coming up. I'm
pretty prepared. Okay. What isthis heaviness then? So it's
just taking a little bit of aninternal inventory. Is there
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something you're upset about,besides the world in general? Is
there something that's aheaviness, and you can do a
little exercise again, whereyou're imagining a waterfall or
wind or a light shining anddissipating, whatever emotions
or energies aren't yours, butpart of it is realizing what
emotions actually are ours andwhat we are taking on, or even
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the way I often say it in thework is matching. Because if we
don't feel sad and we are sad onbehalf of someone else, we're
kind of matching a level oftheir sadness. So we can take
ownership of it or hold some ofit on behalf of others. So
getting clear about whatemotions we are having and what
emotions we are not having thatwe're feeling in our space will
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help you understand whatactually belongs to you, and
it'll help you dig deeper intoyour own emotions for clarity or
healing or whatever you mightneed. But it'll also help you
decide more intentionally. Oh,okay, I'm not carrying the
weight of the world today.
Doesn't mean you don't care. Itdoesn't mean that you're not
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realistic about what'shappening. But you don't have to
carry all of the emotions aroundyou, all of the heaviness around
you. And as a little part B tothis, if you have some time and
you're feeling like you want todo some journaling, you could
even sit down and think about,okay, I have this heaviness on
my heart. What's going on heavyin my life? Okay, maybe my
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relationships are good andthings are good for me, but when
I look at the people that I careabout in this world around me,
start with those closest to you,right? Is someone closest to me
having, you know, this emotionof sadness and then expand out
is someone I'm adjacent to,perhaps a coworker, a casual
friend, my friend's partner,right? Like one of my kids
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friends, stretching that circleout and then out even more. And
that's how you can startevaluating when you're taking on
other people's emotions and justremind yourself you're
sensitive, you're not broken.
This is a beautiful part of you.
It's what allows you to supportand have empathy and compassion
for others. But you don't needto hold it Truth Number three,
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stillness isn't escapism. It's astrategy. Yeah,
I want to reframe stillness alittle bit as a radical act,
especially in a noisy, reactiveworld. You know, sometimes
stillness feels unsafe orselfish, especially when other
people are suffering, and wewant to remove ourselves and
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take a moment of stillness,especially if we have something
really loud going on. Perhapssomeone in your world is having
a health crisis, or is nearingtheir time of passing, for
example, or having an emotionalcrisis in their life, we can
often feel like getting stillisn't safe, because then that's
when the loud thoughts mightcome in, or that's when those
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racing emotions might come in,or we might feel like stillness
is selfish, like, how can I takethis time for myself when this
person's suffering so much? Butthe actual truth is, stillness
is where our intuition speaks tous. It's where our higher self
communicates, our guides our ownsoul. So really it's where
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clarity can return to us. So Imight just see if you can
reframe this idea of stillnessas a radical act of strategy for
yourself, rather than somethingscary or bad or that you don't
have time for. And we are soconditioned in this day and age
that we like something on allthe time, TV, on radio, on
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podcast, on right music onsomething on all the time, white
noise on but can you just tryeven three minutes of silence?
You can do it like breath,listening, like listening
literally to your inhale andexhale from inside of your body,
if that helps, that can help torealign your energetic field.
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But remember spirit, whetherit's your loved ones on the
other side, whether it's God ofyour heart, whether it's your
higher self, whether it's yourown soul, whatever way you want
to identify these different waysof guidance and inspiration that
we receive. I'm just going tosay spirit. Spirit is speaking
to us in the quiet, in thestillness. Spirit doesn't shout,
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it whispers, and so does ourintuition, our guidance, our own
soul. So please understand herethat I'm not saying silence
yourself, because I don't thinkthat that's healthy either, but
I am encouraging taking a fewminutes of silence, especially
when things feel chaotic, justto regroup, to reset, like your
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own energy, your own emotions.
Maybe that's a time when you cando a little bit of regulating, a
little bit of just taking somebreaths. A really simple way to
duck away for three minutes ofquiet is to go to the restroom.
Just say, like, I need to usethe restroom or I need to wash
my hands. That was always alittle sneaky tool that I use
was just like, Oh, I'm justgonna go wash my hands. And then
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you can just take three minutes.
Very few people bother you ifyou're washing your hands or
using the restroom or eventaking a shower. So how can you
get these little moments ofsilence for yourself? And
silence doesn't have to meantotal inaction. I just was
working with someone earliertoday, and they said, You know
what, sometimes I find a lot ofpeace. They had a really
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traumatic loss in their life,and they said, I find a lot of
peace by just taking a tennisball and throwing it with my dog
for 10 minutes in the morning,and just that silence, really, I
try not to think about anything,and it gives me a lot of peace.
So it doesn't have to mean thatyou're escaping it doesn't have
to mean that you're avoidingreality. Stillness can be a
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strategy, and you can harnessthis strategy of stillness for
yourself, to let rise up whatneeds to or even just to have a
few moments of peace, toreconnect with the soul of you.
Truth Number four, spiritualbypassing does not equal
spiritual truth. Okay? I thinkthis is important to dive into.
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Many of you have heard the termspiritual bypassing.
Essentially, it means avoidinghard emotions or difficult
situations by hiding behind thisidea of like love and light,
right? Just spreading love andlight. I don't want to know
about anything hard. I don'twant to deal with anything
difficult. I just want to stayin love and light, and there's
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value to that in in pieces andin parts, right? But if we avoid
all hard emotions or hardsituations, that's spiritual
bypassing, and we're not findingspiritual truth or solace or
healing in thatyou can even affirm to yourself,
you can hold both anger andcompassion, both grief and
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gratitude at the same time,feeling deeply and really, being
honest with ourselves, withinourselves about our own
emotions, is being spiritual. Itmeans you're present. It means
your process. Saying it meansyou're doing what is often the
hardest work of being a humanbeing, having a spiritual
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experience, processing theseemotions that we have. And
believe me, with how crazy theworld is right now, it can feel
like we just want to bypass andjust love and light all over the
place, and not, you know, put onthose blinders and not see any
of the hard things. Butspiritual growth is not about
floating above the storm, so tospeak. It's about learning to
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root deeper while that rainpounds. Does anyone remember
that movie from the 80s, thenever ending story? Indulge me
for a minute here. I'm going togive you a quick context for
anyone that doesn't know thatmovie. If you don't know that
movie, please on whateverstreaming service it lives on
now, go find it. It's an amazingmovie. I feel like the themes
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hold up anyway. There is thiswarrior young man. His name's
Atreyu. He's on this quest, andhis role is essentially to find
a cure for the Empress and savethis world known as Fantasia.
And Fantasia is being consumedby something called the nothing,
which is really a metaphor fordespair, hopelessness, loss of
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dreams. I feel like it's reallysuper applicable to the world
that we're experiencing rightnow. And Atreus journey brings
him to something called theswamps of sadness. This is a
place where anyone who givesinto the depth of sadness that
they're feeling will beessentially swallowed by this
swamp. And there's this one keymoment which everyone I know
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cried at this part, and so did Iessentially as Atreyu tries to
make his way through this swamp,his beloved horse artax begins
to sink. So even though Atreyuis pleading and encouraging and
begging and feeling all of thisdesperation, his horse artax is
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taken over by the sadness, theemotion of this sad swamp and
starts to sink into the swamp.
It's one of the mostheartbreaking scenes in like all
of children's cinema, becausethere's no magical rescue, and
our tax ultimately does give uphope and disappears into this
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swamp of sadness. So what we cantake away from this, in this
context of leaning intospiritual truths, or just truths
to help us in chaotic times, isthat hope doesn't always feel
bright or cheerful. It's oftenquiet and hard won, especially
in dark times. So don't feellike if you have to work hard to
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find things to feel hopefulabout. Don't don't feel like
you're alone or like that'swrong. It's the way it is. You
may lose companions along thisjourney. You may lose parts of
your old self on this path, butnone of our story's over, and
especially looking at worldevents at large, I know it could
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feel kind of grim right now, butthe story is not over, so if you
can hang on to that, that mightbe helpful. And the other thing
to realize with this movie thatI'm talking about, and the way
that story lines out, and theway our life is is help,
insight, unexpected support. Itreally does often show up after
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our most painful threshold, likeafter we move through the most
painful part. So if that's howyou're feeling, if you're
feeling a little bit despairing,a little bit like hope is not
clearly able to be seen rightnow, like you've had a lot of
loss on your path, and likeyou're not feeling as supported.
Just remember to find hope. Itdoesn't have to be bright and
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cheerful. It could be a glimmer,like in that movie, there's one
little grain of sand that startsto illuminate and is beautiful,
and hope can start out as thatone little grain of sand that we
can hang on to. I'm going tomove on to Truth Number five,
because I could talk about thismovie forever. And if you guys
ever want to do a podcastepisode where we go through that
movie and break down the themes,let me know, because I'm a nerd
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for that movie, and if you aretoo, I would love to do that
with you. Truth Number five,there's power in micro actions.
I invite you to revisit thatepisode I entitled micro dosing
joy. I'll link these extraepisodes in the show notes. But
it is possible to take microactions in overwhelming times,
when things are overwhelming andseem so much bigger than us and
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so much weightier. It can beeasy to feel powerless, right?
But in spiritual presence, likein the presence of our own soul,
in the presence of our higherpower, in that clarity of calm
and groundedness, our light as asoul can ripple out. So even
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though we feel powerless, ourenergy matters. It means
something I shared this. Arecent episode. One of the many,
many, many things the spiritworld has taught me is that they
receive our love, they receiveour prayers, our healing energy,
our positive thoughts, whateverother words you like in there,
all of that is felt by theunseen world and can move the
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energy. So I'm just going togive you some quick little
suggestions for micro actions,particularly on those days when
you're feeling helpless. Youcould send a little bubble of
healing energy. And if you'renot trained as a healer, it
doesn't matter, you just createa bubble energetically with
healing intentions. And youcould send that to, for example,
a conflict zone, an area wherethey're having active conflict
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or war right now. You could alsosend it to individual service
members, right or a branch ofthe service who is currently
seeing action in a war zone or aconflict zone. You could write a
letter of support, even if youdon't ever send it. Of course,
you could write letters and sendthem with love and support and
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good thoughts to whether it'sservice members or people who
are in hospitals who maybearen't receiving visitors or
cards.
You could write letters, or youcould just write it to yourself
and keep it for yourself as anoffering of wishes for peace,
wishes for support for people.
You could, for example, offer aprayer in traffic, whether you
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identify it as prayer using thatword, or whether you think I'm
just going to send my bestwishes and positive energy to,
for example, someone who's beenin a car accident, if you see a
car accident, to you know, ifyou're driving and you see fire,
you can send love there. If youjust know, as you're driving and
have things on your mind, youcan send love to whatever those
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things are while you're sittingin traffic, uh, prayers or love,
whatever word you like, you canground the emotion of peace into
your home, meaning like, keepthe energy of your house in
peace, in love, in kindness.
We've talked on previousepisodes about using music to
raise the vibration of ourspace, creating safe space,
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because particularly if you haveother people living with you,
whether they're people or pets,and particularly if they're
kids, or if you have otherpeople children and the like
visiting your home, creatingthis safe space, this peaceful
environment, is sometimes morepowerful than we realize. Just
giving someone a few moments ofpeace, you can say a little
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affirmation for yourself. Everysmall act in alignment with love
is spiritual activism. Andagain, you can make this as big
as you want. If you feel like Iwant to take some macro actions
instead of micro actions. Youcould be more involved. You
could volunteer in yourcommunity. You can reach out to
community centers and see whatthey need support with. We used
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to have something when I wasyoung in high school where there
was a close by senior livingcenter, and we used to go as a
big group of us, and spend timevisiting with the seniors and
hearing their stories. And youknow, sometimes people would
play piano or whatever everyoneknew how to do. So if you wanted
to get more involved, there arealways more things you can do in
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your community and more actionsyou can take in your community,
but even micro actions in yourown community, perhaps it's, you
know, just picking up someone'sjunk mail and putting it back in
their mailbox, for example, or,you know, maybe you start to get
to know your neighbors right.
Being in community, emotionalsupport, energetic support. So
there are power in microactions, even if it's just
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sending thoughts, sendingprayer, sending love, keeping
our space peaceful, those allcount as ways of being in micro
action. Truth Number six,connect with your unseen support
team. Your guides haven't left.
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So even though we might besometimes saying like, where is
my support team? Where are myguides? Where are my loved ones,
they haven't left, they're stillclose, whether it's loved ones
on the other side, our spiritguides, our spirit team, the
love and energy of our own soul,of the angels, of the
archangels, everyone is stillthere. It's just sometimes when
we're stressed out, we've talkedabout this before, we feel like
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the guidance isn't there, orlike we can't feel that
supportive energy around us, butour our unseen loved ones of all
sorts are still close. It'sfeels harder to hear them or
sense them, or feel them or knowthat they're around sometimes
when we feel very scattered, butthey're still offering us
invitations. They're stilloffering us support. You guys
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know, I have the free sign minicourse on my website, joyful
medium.com, it's right on thehomepage of the website. If you
don't know how to ask for signs,but I really love. Asking for
signs either for specificguidance, right? Many of you
know in the past, I've taughtsetting up a yes or no sign,
right? So perhaps you're makinga big decision, you might pick
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one sign to represent the answerof yes, one sign to represent
the answer of no or Option A,option B. I like to choose a
time frame, whether it's the endof the weekend or this week,
tomorrow, close of business,whatever you like. And I like to
see I kind of keep a runningtally in my mind as I see those
images that I'm asking for, andwhen I get to three, I know
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that's my answer. You may haveheard me teach before that there
have been times where I haveused light bulbs for yes and
umbrellas for No, and then it'sjust how many light bulbs and
umbrellas Am I aware of as I goaround my world? But you can use
different items than that. Youcan ask your guides for a
specific sign to let them letyou know that they are present
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with you, right? So maybe it's aPurple Heart and you just be
available for purple hearts tocross your path out in the
world, and that's how you canknow that they're with you in
spending guidance. I highlyencourage you to take that free
course, though, because I reallyin three lessons break it all
down for you. You could also dosomething a little bit spiritual
and symbolic for yourself, toconnect with your unseen support
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team. You could light a candleand just sit there with an open
heart for 10 minutes and beavailable, right? Listen, be
available. Open your heart. Youcould create a mantra, something
like, I'm never alone, even whenI feel alone, I'm always
supported. So whatever it is,just not forgetting to connect
with your unseen support team.
Sometimes when this world feelsreally difficult and our support
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team feels quieter, this usuallyis the time we are most
resistant to sitting with ourspirit guides or to asking for
signs, for example, and itusually is the time we need it
the most. So for me, I know ifI'm like resisting sitting in
meditation, resisting being insilence. This is often when I
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need it the most, and it's oftenwhen I can have access to the
most guidance, if I would justdo the work my Free Will
contribution to become availablefor it. So I highly encourage
you don't forget about yourspirit team and Truth Number
seven, your frequency is a forcethe world needs more regulated,
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more grounded in light people,not perfectionists, not asking
for perfection of ourselves, notexpecting perfection. We don't
need to be fearless. We justneed to be present. We just need
to work on healing ourselves sothat we can show up as the most
evolved, most, I want to say,like less reactive, most
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intentionally respondingversions of ourself. But release
if you can this idea aboutperfection, because we're not
going for perfection here. We'rejust going for being actively
aware in that energy. And thetruth is, we have a world to
focus on. So there might betimes where being aware of the
subtle energies does fade alittle bit into the background.
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I would expect it to be. Ifyou're like me and you're
actively in this work, it evenrecedes in and out of my focus
throughout the day, when I'mdriving, I'm not trying to
communicate with spirit. I'mdriving. So just know that you
do have that flexibility, andyour energy is a force, and the
world does need you to beworking on your own emotions,
working on your own subtleenergy, grounded into that light
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as much as you possibly can be.
And I really encourage you totry to be intentional with your
energy, whether you're groceryshopping or parenting or
creating or even grieving, beintentional with that emotion,
with that energy, create spacefor yourself to grieve. If
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you're feeling like like I am,to be quite honest with you, I
think we're grieving individualsin our own lives and in our own
ways, but grieving some of thesebig losses that we're
experiencing collectively withthe way certain structures are
changing or falling away, withthe abuse of power that's
happening, with the neglect ofpeople that's happening. I'm not
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gonna as promised, I'm not gonnago deep into this, but I think a
lot of you know exactly some ofthe things I'm getting at that
are happening out there in theworld. We need to be present,
engaged in our own energy andmanaging our own energy,
intentional with our own energy,no matter where we are. And I
encourage you to think of itlike this, your frequency is
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your offering. So again, we'renot saying we have to be
perfect. Perhaps there's a daywhere you're just having a bad
day, and maybe you're not goingto sit at the dinner table with
your whole family and bereactive. Maybe you're going to
say, you guys, get started. I'mjust going to go wash my hands
for five minutes and get get alittle clarity or whatever. Work
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for you and your family system,and I'm going to be back in five
minutes. I'll see you guys then,because your frequency is your
offering, your presence, right?
Being present, not spinning out,not reactive in emotions, not I
want to say messy, but sometimeswe're all messy. So it's not
really that, it's more justintentionally, working through
our emotions, identifying them,not just rushing in from being
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at work all day, being angry,being aggressive, being
frustrated and taking it out oneveryone in your Zumba class or
whatever it is, but beingintentional, the frequency that
you bring, how you show up inany given space, is part of your
offering, and perhaps sometimesit's your whole offering. So
maybe you're feeling a lot,maybe you're feeling
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overwhelmed, just know what youcan offer is how you show up, is
your frequency, even if thatmeans being a little more quiet
some days than others, that'sokay. Just start where you are.
Okay. So I really wantto encourage you that you don't
have to do all seven of thesetruths perfectly. You don't even
have to do all seven, if not allseven resonate with you, but
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even one small shift helpsanchor your energy. And really
one thing to return to inmoments of stress is this idea
that you're a soul having ahuman experience. The timeline
is always moving. Things arealways happening behind the
scenes that we are not aware of.
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Truth is always coming to light.
There is always more going onthan we're aware of. And you
might even create some mantrasthat you keep, like maybe in the
notes section of your phone oron a sticky note at your desk,
just to help you have somethingto come back to you. And maybe
it's something like, may Ireturn to stillness so I can
return to truth? Maybe it iswhat we talked about in the last
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point. My frequency is myoffering just something small to
remind you to bring you back.
And it doesn't even have to bewords. I know people that keep
something called a touchstone,which is like a pocket stone or
a little stone on their desk, ora little statue or symbol or
sticker, whatever works for you.
It doesn't have to be noticeableto anybody else. This is just
private for you, managing yourown energy as a highly sensitive
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person. And I also invite you toshare this episode with someone
who may be feeling overwhelmedor spiritually lost, or who
might just be feeling a lot ofeveryone else's emotions and not
certain how to manage it or whatto do with it. I also have a lot
of free meditations and episodesin the past that can offer
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additional support or additionalways to temporarily take a
break, right? I think that's howmany of us use podcasts or
movies or whatever else we like.
It's okay to take those breaks.
I really want you to keepholding your light, keep
trusting your heart. I want tomake it very clear to you that
you matter and your alignment ismedicine for you and for the
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world. And I'm so proud of youfor continuing to show up, even
when it's hard, even when youfeel a little messy about it,
it's okay. You're a valuablelight in this world, and I'm
grateful to have you as a partof my community and to have you
here spending these moments withme, we're going to get through
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this together. And I just wantedto touch into this, because it's
been such a theme in lots of myreadings, and so heavy on my
heart personally, that I hopethat sharing these seven truths,
things to remember, things tohold on to, and some tips of
some ways to move through thisenergy, hopefully is helpful for
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you. Let me know, and I'm alwayshere right alongside you, having
this human experience when it'sbeautiful and when it's messy
and when it's everything inbetween. So thanks for being
here with me today, and thanksfor shining your light with all
the people in your sphere thatyou shine it with. Big hugs.
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Lots of love. Bye fornow from inside spirit, Speak
Easy.
Joy, hey, beautiful soul, welcome to spirit
speakeasy. I'm Joy Giovanni,joyful medium. I'm a working
psychic medium, energy healerand spiritual gifts mentor. This
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mediums, mystics and thespiritual luminaries of our
time. So come behind the velvetropes with me and see inside my
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world as I chat insider stylewith profoundly gifted souls, we
go deep, share juicy stories,laugh a lot, and it wouldn't be
a speakeasy without greatinsider secrets and tips. You
might even learn that you havesome gifts of your own so step
inside the spirit. Speak Easy.
Hey, beautiful souls, welcomeback, or welcome in for another
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episode of spirit speakeasy. Inthis week's episode, we are
gonna go over seven groundingtruths for chaotic times. How to
Stay spiritually aligned whenthe world feels upside down. If
you have been feeling offlately, perhaps more drained.
Maybe you feel more reactive,like your emotions are right on
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top, perhaps you feel scatteredlike you can't keep track of why
you're in this room or what youjust were doing, even numb in
some cases, I just want you toknow that you're not alone.
There is so much happeningaround us. I'm not going to hash
it all up again, because we allknow what a lot of it is. There
are world events happening.
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There are natural disastershappening, political tension in
multiple countries, not just theUS and Canada. There are
emotions happening in ourcollective, deep grief, in the
collective and even turmoil. Sowhether you follow the news or
not, you're definitely feelingit energetically, and we're
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going to talk all about it. Butcan we please normalize
spiritual exhaustion andemotional overwhelm, especially
for intuitives, empaths andhealers, I think often we're
just all expected to keep itpushing, to keep our heads down
and moving forward. And I thinknot acknowledging it is just not
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real for us that are sensitive,because we're feeling it so
palpably, even as someone whoworks with the spirit world,
every day, I spend time inmeditation. Almost every day, I
feel the subtle energies aroundus, and I can pretty often, have
a lot of tools to focus myenergy, focus my awareness. But
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even for me, as someone who hasbeen in this work and has all of
these tools, I feel thisheaviness too, so that's why
today I want to offer sevengrounding truths. These are not
shallow tips, but they are real,Soul aligned tools that can help
you find stability and spiritualconnection, even in the midst of
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the unknown. Because I thinkthat's part of what's so hard,
is that we are experiencingthings that we've never
experienced. There are thingshappening that are unprecedented
across the board in multipleareas, and our future feels
unknown or uncertain in a lot ofcases. Now we can say like,
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yeah, okay, but do we everactually know the future? Are
things ever truly predictable?
Possibly No. But we do oftenfeel like, you know, if things
have been pretty steady, if wehave a steady job, if we're, you
know, used to being able to goabout our day to day, we get
this, almost like illusion orcomfort, that things are stable.
Things are steady and right now,everything feels unsteady,
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unknown, upside down. And as Igo through these seven truths, I
just invite you to see where youcan see yourself in them,
perhaps where you can see othersaround you in these truths. And
hopefully this will give you alittle bit of something to focus
on. So when things do feelchaotic, whether it's in the
world at large or in our own,family groups, friend groups,
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community groups, etc, we reallydo have some tools to hang on
to, and some of them involvesome like actual tips and
strategies and things to do, andsome of them are just things to
remember. So I'm going to diveright in with this Truth Number
one, your nervous system issacred space. We don't always
think about it like this. I knowwe talk about here often that we
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are spiritual beings, having ahuman experience in this human
form, right?
But we don't often talk aboutbeing dysregulated and how that
affects us as spiritual beings.
Regulation matters energeticallyand spiritually, not just
physically. The body is spirit'sholding place almost and
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certainly a tuning fork for usto feel emotions. Feel things
around us to understand thosesubtle energies, but when we are
dysregulated, it feels reallyhard to receive guidance. So
when we talk about regulatingour energy, what we're really
talking about is tending to thisintersection of our nervous
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system and our spiritual field.
I know here we talk about theauric field and the energetic
body, so really, just balancingout or tending to that
intersection of our nervoussystem and our spiritual body,
the physical body and the soulbody. Let's just say it that
way. In chaotic times, it iseasy to stay in a chronic state
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of that fight, flight, freeze,or even fawn, where our nervous
systems are on alert. I don'tknow about you, but I have, at
times, found myself like reallychecking the news pretty
frequently. I go in and out ofthis. I give myself breaks as
well. But we really can becomeat a place where we're just in
this state of alert all thetime, scanning for threats over
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stimulated often and sometimesfor some of us, in certain
instances, that can even pushover into just being totally
shut down. The problem is, inthis state, we become
energetically, like leaky,almost more reactive, right?
Instead of receivinginformation, letting it land,
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processing it, feeling our ownemotions and choosing how to
respond, we can become veryreactive, very lit up in our
emotions. You might even benoticing more kind of bickering
everywhere you go, whetheronline or in person. We often
feel disconnected from ourintuition, from guidance, from
that which we know to be truewithin us, and we also become
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more vulnerable to absorbingother people's emotions or
feeling them unconsciously, ismaybe the way I should say it.
We're consciously feelingsomething, but we're unconscious
that we are taking otherpeople's emotions into our auric
field. When I was doing a lot ofhealing work with clients, I
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started explaining it to clientsas like other people's dirty
socks getting stuck on yourauric field, because we do pick
up all of this energy andemotions and other people's
quote, unquote stuff as we gothrough the world. So what does
regulated energy feel like? Itfeels like these are not going
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to be exactly right words foreverybody, but hopefully you can
see how they make sense in yourspace. It's a sense of being
centered in our body, notoutside of our body, but like in
our body, feeling our feelings,not reacting, but steady. When
we are properly regulated, weare able to respond rather than
react. We are emotionallyavailable, but not overwhelmed,
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right? We're spirituallyconnected and intuitively clear,
or at least intuitively aware,like we're feeling our
intuitions, even if we're notalways taking the guidance. I'm
going to give you threepractices to regulate your
energy, spiritually andphysically. The first of these
practices is anchor in your bodyfirst. Now I know that
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oftentimes we can just want tofeel or grab or snatch for that
subtle energy, right? But thereason we need to ground in our
body first is because our bodyis kind of this antenna for
energy while we're in a physicalbody. So if we're floating in
these mental loops or we're notpresent, we're drifting off into
this stressful thought or energyof of Yeah, kind of rehashing
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for me. Sometimes it's likewriting the same email 30 times
because I just am so lit upabout what I how I want to
respond. Does that ever happenfor you? So if we're having
these types of things happening,our energy and our energetic
signals, that intuitive nudge,for example, can feel fuzzy,
right? Not as clear. We're notas available for it. So there's
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a couple of things you could trythis. First tip is essentially
press your feet into the floor,like two feet on the floor, if
you can, if your physical bodyallows for that, and Name five
things that you can physicallysee or feel right now. So
oftentimes it's looking aroundthe room and just naming one
thing you can see, one thing youcan hear, one thing that's solid
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in the space where you are. Andget yourself to five, this
really brings you present. Andthen once you feel present, you
can do that exercise we'vetalked about before, where you
put your hand on your chest andone on your belly, or even just
one hand, if that's best foryou, and just take some simple
breaths and say to yourself, I'mhere. I'm safe. I can choose how
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I show up in this moment,because we're bringing our
energy back to center. Insteadof having it scattered and and
reaching for information outsideof us, we want to just bring
everything right back intocenter. You. Another easy tip,
or quick, simple tip to hang onto for getting more regulated is
using your breath as a tuningfork. Breath is one of the
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fastest tools to reset ourfrequency. Think of it as almost
like clearing static from yourenergy field. With each exhale,
you can release what's notserving you, what doesn't belong
to you. So you can try thissimple method of like, what's
called square breathing, whichis essentially you inhale for
whatever your natural breath is.
Mine's about four. Some peoplehave much longer inhale and
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exhale, but comfortable. Itdoesn't have to be a stretch for
you. So you'd inhale for four,the count of four, you'd hold
for the count of four, you'dexhale for the count of four,
and then you'd hold for thecount of four. So that's why
it's a square, because you'recounting and each you know, if
it's six for you, it's inhalefor the count of six, pause for
the count of six, exhale for thecount of six, pause for the
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count of six, then back toinhale. So it's really great,
even just if you for twominutes, can do this breathing
pattern, it really starts toregulate you and bring you back
energetically into your body. Sotwo minutes is great for that.
You can also hum, or just likesigh audibly, right? You could
chant, if you're into chanting,these activate that vagus nerve
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which signals to your systemit's okay to come out of this
fight, flight, Fauci fleasurvival mode. This is a little
different than this tip ofpersonally for me, rather than
the breath or the chanting orthe humming, I like to sway my
physical body, there's somethingfor me about gently swaying back
and forth. And I also feel likeit's not very noticeable. I do
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it in public a lot. You might ifyou ever watch the video version
of this, or watch me on video inany way, or teaching, or even
we're doing the healings, if youever see me gently swaying,
sometimes it is just a calmingmechanism for me. And the third
little tip here is, be thegatekeeper of what enters your
field, so almost heading thingsoff at your own personal gate of
your auric field, so to speak.
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In chaotic times, energeticboundaries can get thin, porous,
if you will, and we're not meantto carry it all, and certainly
not all at once. So you couldeven make a practice of asking
yourself daily. Maybe it's inthe evening, maybe it's at
lunchtime, what's mine to holdand what's not? Essentially,
what kind of energy am Iallowing in, whether it's
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through conversations, throughmedia, through scrolling, even
thoughts, perhaps it's thosewater cooler conversations that
you're maybe not going to be aparticipant in anymore. For you,
once you get clear about what amI allowing in? What am I taking
in? And you can't even do alittle guided visualization for
yourself, where you're imaginingyour auric field, your personal
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space bubble, as just filledwith golden light, and imagine
any unhealed or unhelpful orenergy that doesn't belong to
you, almost like leaving flowingout of your space like a mist or
like a smoke or a fog, and justbreathe yourself back into
clarity. Energetic regulationreally helps with intuitive
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clarity, and when our energy isjust regulated, guidance from
our spirit guides our higherself, our loved ones on the
other side our intuition. Itfeels really hard to sense that
guidance when we're lit up inour energy, or it can feel
distorted almost where we're notentirely sure, oh, is this the
right choice? Is this not theright choice? If you ever feel
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like that, the first step is totry these personal regulatory
tools. Or if you have adifferent one, I would love it
if you share it. But when weregulate even just a little bit,
even if it's like two minutes ofthat breathing we talked about,
it's like turning down thatstatic. For those of you that
remember when TV used to havestatic and turning dialing your
radio to almost like a moreclear signal, a more tapped in,
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tuned in signal, and you canfeel it, see it, sense it more
clearly, okay? Truth Number two,not all the energy you feel is
yours. I have had a stream ofclients, probably since the
beginning of the year, and I'veheard in various ways, from
different people, differenthumans, because we're all
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different, that people are justfeeling off. They're feeling
like they're overly emotional,or a heaviness on their heart,
or even a heaviness on theirback with no physical problem, a
heaviness in their energy. Somepeople describe it as feeling
like a little dark cloud is overthem. Some people describe it as
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feeling less hopeful, right? Butjust bringing your awareness to
this idea that not all theenergy that you feel actually
belongs to you. So we've talkedabout this before that we have
this auric field, this personalspace bubble. You can go back
and listen to the aura 101video, if you want that teaching
in like an expanded way. Yes,but we are these empathetic,
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energetic beings, and with thisauric field that we have, and
with all of our sensitivities,if you're into the chakra
system, it's also happeningthrough that we're perceiving
information subtly all the time,energetic information. We do
hear and see things you knowwith our physical senses,
obviously, but there's otherinformation we're always taking
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in. So if you were, for example,to be in a conversation with
someone, let's just say at yourwork, and the person just
telling you about their weekend,your physical body, your
energetic body, your auricfield, is also sensing the
emotions about what they'retalking about. And they might
not say, Oh, I had a really goodtime, but through their
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expression, you're feeling, oh,okay, this was a positive
experience for them, or Oh,okay. I know that they said this
was a party, but something musthave happened because they sat.
They feel really stressed out asthey're telling this. So we are
constantly discerning otherpeople's information. It's part
of being a natural healer, anempath, an intuitive and most
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people will say like, Well, I'mnot intuitive. I don't know if I
have that, but if you've everbeen able to have caring,
compassion, empathy for howanother feels, you have it. And
we're all sensitive. So even ifyou don't feel like you do, you
do have it when we are carryingaround other people's emotions
and energies like that aren'tours. First of all, it's
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typically not helpful uscarrying around a heaviness for
someone else as they're goingthrough stress doesn't help
their stress, right? Perhapssupporting them in a different
way could but just carryingaround or taking on and trying
to help to carry emotions thatare ours really isn't helpful to
anyone. So the first thing topractice here with this not all
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the energy you feel is yours, isto start understanding what
energy and emotions are yours,and what do not belong to you,
what belong to someone else. Soif you're having a feeling, an
emotion rising up, maybe itdoesn't even feel like it's
rising up. Maybe you're cruisingthrough your morning and you
just feel in a littlelackluster, right? You're just
feeling a little meh. I don't, Idon't feel amazing. Ask
(17:17):
yourself, what part of what I'mfeeling is mine. Meaning you
could check in and say, like, Issomething going on that's making
me feel a little down, besidesthe state of the world right
now? No, you know, I had a niceexchange with my partner this
morning. Kids off to school.
Good. Everything feels okay. Ihave this meeting coming up. I'm
pretty prepared. Okay. What isthis heaviness then? So it's
just taking a little bit of aninternal inventory. Is there
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something you're upset about,besides the world in general? Is
there something that's aheaviness, and you can do a
little exercise again, whereyou're imagining a waterfall or
wind or a light shining anddissipating, whatever emotions
or energies aren't yours, butpart of it is realizing what
emotions actually are ours andwhat we are taking on, or even
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the way I often say it in thework is matching. Because if we
don't feel sad and we are sad onbehalf of someone else, we're
kind of matching a level oftheir sadness. So we can take
ownership of it or hold some ofit on behalf of others. So
getting clear about whatemotions we are having and what
emotions we are not having thatwe're feeling in our space will
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help you understand whatactually belongs to you, and
it'll help you dig deeper intoyour own emotions for clarity or
healing or whatever you mightneed. But it'll also help you
decide more intentionally. Oh,okay, I'm not carrying the
weight of the world today.
Doesn't mean you don't care. Itdoesn't mean that you're not
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realistic about what'shappening. But you don't have to
carry all of the emotions aroundyou, all of the heaviness around
you. And as a little part B tothis, if you have some time and
you're feeling like you want todo some journaling, you could
even sit down and think about,okay, I have this heaviness on
my heart. What's going on heavyin my life? Okay, maybe my
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relationships are good andthings are good for me, but when
I look at the people that I careabout in this world around me,
start with those closest to you,right? Is someone closest to me
having, you know, this emotionof sadness and then expand out
is someone I'm adjacent to,perhaps a coworker, a casual
friend, my friend's partner,right? Like one of my kids
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friends, stretching that circleout and then out even more. And
that's how you can startevaluating when you're taking on
other people's emotions and justremind yourself you're
sensitive, you're not broken.
This is a beautiful part of you.
It's what allows you to supportand have empathy and compassion
for others. But you don't needto hold it Truth Number three,
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stillness isn't escapism. It's astrategy. Yeah,
I want to reframe stillness alittle bit as a radical act,
especially in a noisy, reactiveworld. You know, sometimes
stillness feels unsafe orselfish, especially when other
people are suffering, and wewant to remove ourselves and
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take a moment of stillness,especially if we have something
really loud going on. Perhapssomeone in your world is having
a health crisis, or is nearingtheir time of passing, for
example, or having an emotionalcrisis in their life, we can
often feel like getting stillisn't safe, because then that's
when the loud thoughts mightcome in, or that's when those
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racing emotions might come in,or we might feel like stillness
is selfish, like, how can I takethis time for myself when this
person's suffering so much? Butthe actual truth is, stillness
is where our intuition speaks tous. It's where our higher self
communicates, our guides our ownsoul. So really it's where
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clarity can return to us. So Imight just see if you can
reframe this idea of stillnessas a radical act of strategy for
yourself, rather than somethingscary or bad or that you don't
have time for. And we are soconditioned in this day and age
that we like something on allthe time, TV, on radio, on
(21:24):
podcast, on right music onsomething on all the time, white
noise on but can you just tryeven three minutes of silence?
You can do it like breath,listening, like listening
literally to your inhale andexhale from inside of your body,
if that helps, that can help torealign your energetic field.
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But remember spirit, whetherit's your loved ones on the
other side, whether it's God ofyour heart, whether it's your
higher self, whether it's yourown soul, whatever way you want
to identify these different waysof guidance and inspiration that
we receive. I'm just going tosay spirit. Spirit is speaking
to us in the quiet, in thestillness. Spirit doesn't shout,
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it whispers, and so does ourintuition, our guidance, our own
soul. So please understand herethat I'm not saying silence
yourself, because I don't thinkthat that's healthy either, but
I am encouraging taking a fewminutes of silence, especially
when things feel chaotic, justto regroup, to reset, like your
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own energy, your own emotions.
Maybe that's a time when you cando a little bit of regulating, a
little bit of just taking somebreaths. A really simple way to
duck away for three minutes ofquiet is to go to the restroom.
Just say, like, I need to usethe restroom or I need to wash
my hands. That was always alittle sneaky tool that I use
was just like, Oh, I'm justgonna go wash my hands. And then
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you can just take three minutes.
Very few people bother you ifyou're washing your hands or
using the restroom or eventaking a shower. So how can you
get these little moments ofsilence for yourself? And
silence doesn't have to meantotal inaction. I just was
working with someone earliertoday, and they said, You know
what, sometimes I find a lot ofpeace. They had a really
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traumatic loss in their life,and they said, I find a lot of
peace by just taking a tennisball and throwing it with my dog
for 10 minutes in the morning,and just that silence, really, I
try not to think about anything,and it gives me a lot of peace.
So it doesn't have to mean thatyou're escaping it doesn't have
to mean that you're avoidingreality. Stillness can be a
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strategy, and you can harnessthis strategy of stillness for
yourself, to let rise up whatneeds to or even just to have a
few moments of peace, toreconnect with the soul of you.
Truth Number four, spiritualbypassing does not equal
spiritual truth. Okay? I thinkthis is important to dive into.
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Many of you have heard the termspiritual bypassing.
Essentially, it means avoidinghard emotions or difficult
situations by hiding behind thisidea of like love and light,
right? Just spreading love andlight. I don't want to know
about anything hard. I don'twant to deal with anything
difficult. I just want to stayin love and light, and there's
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value to that in in pieces andin parts, right? But if we avoid
all hard emotions or hardsituations, that's spiritual
bypassing, and we're not findingspiritual truth or solace or
healing in thatyou can even affirm to yourself,
you can hold both anger andcompassion, both grief and
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gratitude at the same time,feeling deeply and really, being
honest with ourselves, withinourselves about our own
emotions, is being spiritual. Itmeans you're present. It means
your process. Saying it meansyou're doing what is often the
hardest work of being a humanbeing, having a spiritual
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experience, processing theseemotions that we have. And
believe me, with how crazy theworld is right now, it can feel
like we just want to bypass andjust love and light all over the
place, and not, you know, put onthose blinders and not see any
of the hard things. Butspiritual growth is not about
floating above the storm, so tospeak. It's about learning to
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root deeper while that rainpounds. Does anyone remember
that movie from the 80s, thenever ending story? Indulge me
for a minute here. I'm going togive you a quick context for
anyone that doesn't know thatmovie. If you don't know that
movie, please on whateverstreaming service it lives on
now, go find it. It's an amazingmovie. I feel like the themes
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hold up anyway. There is thiswarrior young man. His name's
Atreyu. He's on this quest, andhis role is essentially to find
a cure for the Empress and savethis world known as Fantasia.
And Fantasia is being consumedby something called the nothing,
which is really a metaphor fordespair, hopelessness, loss of
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dreams. I feel like it's reallysuper applicable to the world
that we're experiencing rightnow. And Atreus journey brings
him to something called theswamps of sadness. This is a
place where anyone who givesinto the depth of sadness that
they're feeling will beessentially swallowed by this
swamp. And there's this one keymoment which everyone I know
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cried at this part, and so did Iessentially as Atreyu tries to
make his way through this swamp,his beloved horse artax begins
to sink. So even though Atreyuis pleading and encouraging and
begging and feeling all of thisdesperation, his horse artax is
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taken over by the sadness, theemotion of this sad swamp and
starts to sink into the swamp.
It's one of the mostheartbreaking scenes in like all
of children's cinema, becausethere's no magical rescue, and
our tax ultimately does give uphope and disappears into this
(27:18):
swamp of sadness. So what we cantake away from this, in this
context of leaning intospiritual truths, or just truths
to help us in chaotic times, isthat hope doesn't always feel
bright or cheerful. It's oftenquiet and hard won, especially
in dark times. So don't feellike if you have to work hard to
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find things to feel hopefulabout. Don't don't feel like
you're alone or like that'swrong. It's the way it is. You
may lose companions along thisjourney. You may lose parts of
your old self on this path, butnone of our story's over, and
especially looking at worldevents at large, I know it could
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feel kind of grim right now, butthe story is not over, so if you
can hang on to that, that mightbe helpful. And the other thing
to realize with this movie thatI'm talking about, and the way
that story lines out, and theway our life is is help,
insight, unexpected support. Itreally does often show up after
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our most painful threshold, likeafter we move through the most
painful part. So if that's howyou're feeling, if you're
feeling a little bit despairing,a little bit like hope is not
clearly able to be seen rightnow, like you've had a lot of
loss on your path, and likeyou're not feeling as supported.
Just remember to find hope. Itdoesn't have to be bright and
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cheerful. It could be a glimmer,like in that movie, there's one
little grain of sand that startsto illuminate and is beautiful,
and hope can start out as thatone little grain of sand that we
can hang on to. I'm going tomove on to Truth Number five,
because I could talk about thismovie forever. And if you guys
ever want to do a podcastepisode where we go through that
movie and break down the themes,let me know, because I'm a nerd
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for that movie, and if you aretoo, I would love to do that
with you. Truth Number five,there's power in micro actions.
I invite you to revisit thatepisode I entitled micro dosing
joy. I'll link these extraepisodes in the show notes. But
it is possible to take microactions in overwhelming times,
when things are overwhelming andseem so much bigger than us and
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so much weightier. It can beeasy to feel powerless, right?
But in spiritual presence, likein the presence of our own soul,
in the presence of our higherpower, in that clarity of calm
and groundedness, our light as asoul can ripple out. So even
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though we feel powerless, ourenergy matters. It means
something I shared this. Arecent episode. One of the many,
many, many things the spiritworld has taught me is that they
receive our love, they receiveour prayers, our healing energy,
our positive thoughts, whateverother words you like in there,
all of that is felt by theunseen world and can move the
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energy. So I'm just going togive you some quick little
suggestions for micro actions,particularly on those days when
you're feeling helpless. Youcould send a little bubble of
healing energy. And if you'renot trained as a healer, it
doesn't matter, you just createa bubble energetically with
healing intentions. And youcould send that to, for example,
a conflict zone, an area wherethey're having active conflict
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or war right now. You could alsosend it to individual service
members, right or a branch ofthe service who is currently
seeing action in a war zone or aconflict zone. You could write a
letter of support, even if youdon't ever send it. Of course,
you could write letters and sendthem with love and support and
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good thoughts to whether it'sservice members or people who
are in hospitals who maybearen't receiving visitors or
cards.
You could write letters, or youcould just write it to yourself
and keep it for yourself as anoffering of wishes for peace,
wishes for support for people.
You could, for example, offer aprayer in traffic, whether you
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identify it as prayer using thatword, or whether you think I'm
just going to send my bestwishes and positive energy to,
for example, someone who's beenin a car accident, if you see a
car accident, to you know, ifyou're driving and you see fire,
you can send love there. If youjust know, as you're driving and
have things on your mind, youcan send love to whatever those
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things are while you're sittingin traffic, uh, prayers or love,
whatever word you like, you canground the emotion of peace into
your home, meaning like, keepthe energy of your house in
peace, in love, in kindness.
We've talked on previousepisodes about using music to
raise the vibration of ourspace, creating safe space,
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because particularly if you haveother people living with you,
whether they're people or pets,and particularly if they're
kids, or if you have otherpeople children and the like
visiting your home, creatingthis safe space, this peaceful
environment, is sometimes morepowerful than we realize. Just
giving someone a few moments ofpeace, you can say a little
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affirmation for yourself. Everysmall act in alignment with love
is spiritual activism. Andagain, you can make this as big
as you want. If you feel like Iwant to take some macro actions
instead of micro actions. Youcould be more involved. You
could volunteer in yourcommunity. You can reach out to
community centers and see whatthey need support with. We used
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to have something when I wasyoung in high school where there
was a close by senior livingcenter, and we used to go as a
big group of us, and spend timevisiting with the seniors and
hearing their stories. And youknow, sometimes people would
play piano or whatever everyoneknew how to do. So if you wanted
to get more involved, there arealways more things you can do in
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your community and more actionsyou can take in your community,
but even micro actions in yourown community, perhaps it's, you
know, just picking up someone'sjunk mail and putting it back in
their mailbox, for example, or,you know, maybe you start to get
to know your neighbors right.
Being in community, emotionalsupport, energetic support. So
there are power in microactions, even if it's just
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sending thoughts, sendingprayer, sending love, keeping
our space peaceful, those allcount as ways of being in micro
action. Truth Number six,connect with your unseen support
team. Your guides haven't left.
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So even though we might besometimes saying like, where is
my support team? Where are myguides? Where are my loved ones,
they haven't left, they're stillclose, whether it's loved ones
on the other side, our spiritguides, our spirit team, the
love and energy of our own soul,of the angels, of the
archangels, everyone is stillthere. It's just sometimes when
we're stressed out, we've talkedabout this before, we feel like
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the guidance isn't there, orlike we can't feel that
supportive energy around us, butour our unseen loved ones of all
sorts are still close. It'sfeels harder to hear them or
sense them, or feel them or knowthat they're around sometimes
when we feel very scattered, butthey're still offering us
invitations. They're stilloffering us support. You guys
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know, I have the free sign minicourse on my website, joyful
medium.com, it's right on thehomepage of the website. If you
don't know how to ask for signs,but I really love. Asking for
signs either for specificguidance, right? Many of you
know in the past, I've taughtsetting up a yes or no sign,
right? So perhaps you're makinga big decision, you might pick
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one sign to represent the answerof yes, one sign to represent
the answer of no or Option A,option B. I like to choose a
time frame, whether it's the endof the weekend or this week,
tomorrow, close of business,whatever you like. And I like to
see I kind of keep a runningtally in my mind as I see those
images that I'm asking for, andwhen I get to three, I know
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that's my answer. You may haveheard me teach before that there
have been times where I haveused light bulbs for yes and
umbrellas for No, and then it'sjust how many light bulbs and
umbrellas Am I aware of as I goaround my world? But you can use
different items than that. Youcan ask your guides for a
specific sign to let them letyou know that they are present
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with you, right? So maybe it's aPurple Heart and you just be
available for purple hearts tocross your path out in the
world, and that's how you canknow that they're with you in
spending guidance. I highlyencourage you to take that free
course, though, because I reallyin three lessons break it all
down for you. You could also dosomething a little bit spiritual
and symbolic for yourself, toconnect with your unseen support
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team. You could light a candleand just sit there with an open
heart for 10 minutes and beavailable, right? Listen, be
available. Open your heart. Youcould create a mantra, something
like, I'm never alone, even whenI feel alone, I'm always
supported. So whatever it is,just not forgetting to connect
with your unseen support team.
Sometimes when this world feelsreally difficult and our support
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team feels quieter, this usuallyis the time we are most
resistant to sitting with ourspirit guides or to asking for
signs, for example, and itusually is the time we need it
the most. So for me, I know ifI'm like resisting sitting in
meditation, resisting being insilence. This is often when I
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need it the most, and it's oftenwhen I can have access to the
most guidance, if I would justdo the work my Free Will
contribution to become availablefor it. So I highly encourage
you don't forget about yourspirit team and Truth Number
seven, your frequency is a forcethe world needs more regulated,
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more grounded in light people,not perfectionists, not asking
for perfection of ourselves, notexpecting perfection. We don't
need to be fearless. We justneed to be present. We just need
to work on healing ourselves sothat we can show up as the most
evolved, most, I want to say,like less reactive, most
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intentionally respondingversions of ourself. But release
if you can this idea aboutperfection, because we're not
going for perfection here. We'rejust going for being actively
aware in that energy. And thetruth is, we have a world to
focus on. So there might betimes where being aware of the
subtle energies does fade alittle bit into the background.
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I would expect it to be. Ifyou're like me and you're
actively in this work, it evenrecedes in and out of my focus
throughout the day, when I'mdriving, I'm not trying to
communicate with spirit. I'mdriving. So just know that you
do have that flexibility, andyour energy is a force, and the
world does need you to beworking on your own emotions,
working on your own subtleenergy, grounded into that light
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as much as you possibly can be.
And I really encourage you totry to be intentional with your
energy, whether you're groceryshopping or parenting or
creating or even grieving, beintentional with that emotion,
with that energy, create spacefor yourself to grieve. If
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you're feeling like like I am,to be quite honest with you, I
think we're grieving individualsin our own lives and in our own
ways, but grieving some of thesebig losses that we're
experiencing collectively withthe way certain structures are
changing or falling away, withthe abuse of power that's
happening, with the neglect ofpeople that's happening. I'm not
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gonna as promised, I'm not gonnago deep into this, but I think a
lot of you know exactly some ofthe things I'm getting at that
are happening out there in theworld. We need to be present,
engaged in our own energy andmanaging our own energy,
intentional with our own energy,no matter where we are. And I
encourage you to think of itlike this, your frequency is
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your offering. So again, we'renot saying we have to be
perfect. Perhaps there's a daywhere you're just having a bad
day, and maybe you're not goingto sit at the dinner table with
your whole family and bereactive. Maybe you're going to
say, you guys, get started. I'mjust going to go wash my hands
for five minutes and get get alittle clarity or whatever. Work
(40:00):
for you and your family system,and I'm going to be back in five
minutes. I'll see you guys then,because your frequency is your
offering, your presence, right?
Being present, not spinning out,not reactive in emotions, not I
want to say messy, but sometimeswe're all messy. So it's not
really that, it's more justintentionally, working through
our emotions, identifying them,not just rushing in from being
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at work all day, being angry,being aggressive, being
frustrated and taking it out oneveryone in your Zumba class or
whatever it is, but beingintentional, the frequency that
you bring, how you show up inany given space, is part of your
offering, and perhaps sometimesit's your whole offering. So
maybe you're feeling a lot,maybe you're feeling
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overwhelmed, just know what youcan offer is how you show up, is
your frequency, even if thatmeans being a little more quiet
some days than others, that'sokay. Just start where you are.
Okay. So I really wantto encourage you that you don't
have to do all seven of thesetruths perfectly. You don't even
have to do all seven, if not allseven resonate with you, but
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even one small shift helpsanchor your energy. And really
one thing to return to inmoments of stress is this idea
that you're a soul having ahuman experience. The timeline
is always moving. Things arealways happening behind the
scenes that we are not aware of.
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Truth is always coming to light.
There is always more going onthan we're aware of. And you
might even create some mantrasthat you keep, like maybe in the
notes section of your phone oron a sticky note at your desk,
just to help you have somethingto come back to you. And maybe
it's something like, may Ireturn to stillness so I can
return to truth? Maybe it iswhat we talked about in the last
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point. My frequency is myoffering just something small to
remind you to bring you back.
And it doesn't even have to bewords. I know people that keep
something called a touchstone,which is like a pocket stone or
a little stone on their desk, ora little statue or symbol or
sticker, whatever works for you.
It doesn't have to be noticeableto anybody else. This is just
private for you, managing yourown energy as a highly sensitive
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person. And I also invite you toshare this episode with someone
who may be feeling overwhelmedor spiritually lost, or who
might just be feeling a lot ofeveryone else's emotions and not
certain how to manage it or whatto do with it. I also have a lot
of free meditations and episodesin the past that can offer
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additional support or additionalways to temporarily take a
break, right? I think that's howmany of us use podcasts or
movies or whatever else we like.
It's okay to take those breaks.
I really want you to keepholding your light, keep
trusting your heart. I want tomake it very clear to you that
you matter and your alignment ismedicine for you and for the
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world. And I'm so proud of youfor continuing to show up, even
when it's hard, even when youfeel a little messy about it,
it's okay. You're a valuablelight in this world, and I'm
grateful to have you as a partof my community and to have you
here spending these moments withme, we're going to get through
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this together. And I just wantedto touch into this, because it's
been such a theme in lots of myreadings, and so heavy on my
heart personally, that I hopethat sharing these seven truths,
things to remember, things tohold on to, and some tips of
some ways to move through thisenergy, hopefully is helpful for
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you. Let me know, and I'm alwayshere right alongside you, having
this human experience when it'sbeautiful and when it's messy
and when it's everything inbetween. So thanks for being
here with me today, and thanksfor shining your light with all
the people in your sphere thatyou shine it with. Big hugs.
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Lots of love. Bye fornow from inside spirit, Speak
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