Lisa Hopkins: The Importance of Listening To Yourself

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Lisa coaches herself through the discomfort of feeling  out of flow and is reminded that she doesn't need to "do" anything other than listen.

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Episode Transcript

Lisa Hopkins (00:02):
So this one's hard for me.The universe has been
trying very, very hard lately toremind me that the word I chose
for this year was listen. It'sreminding me that I need to
practice what I preach. Let meexplain.It feels like everything

(00:26):
is taking longer than it shouldlately. Let me rephrase that.
Things are taking longer thanthey usually do for me. So
although I've gotten good at mypractice of letting go of
expectations of others, itoccurs to me as I'm speaking

(00:48):
that it has amped up theexpectations of myself.
You see, normally,I resonate ata pretty high frequency and
things come easily to me, mycreativity, my inspiration, my
joy, my flow. But for whateverreason, I'm kind of sitting in a

(01:13):
kind of anticipatory state.It'snot even looking forward to or
getting ready for it'sweirdlyunfamiliar.

(01:33):
If I were my own client, I wouldsay, "define unfamiliar".And I
might reply, something like,Well, usually, I'm really
inspired to edit my podcast orto, you know, write something

(01:57):
this morning, or to just look atthe lake and feel my creativity
bubbling up inside of me. ButI'm not used to not feeling that
And then I might ask, "what isit about not feeling that way
way.
that presents a challenge foryou in this moment?"

And I might reply (02:15):
"well, I've never really run out of things
toput me in that frequency. Andit's a little bit alarming when
the usual things don't - to behonest."

(02:36):
I might then point out tomyself, that I said, things "put
me in that frequency". And thenI might ask, "have you ever
considered that that frequencyis within you, and that you
don't need things to put you init? But rather,you simply need

(02:57):
to tune in to it?
And then I might go, "Holy shit.
You're absolutely right."And I might even ask, "remind
me, how do I do that again?".
And then I would tell myself tolisten. "It's the word you
chose". Just listen. Listen toyourself. The word was not do or

(03:26):
take action or manifest or gofor it or inspire it was simply
listen."So, I'm reminding myself to
listen. And when I do, applythat, listening to myself. I
understand what I need in thismoment.And so, as hard as it is,

(03:54):
I am going to not try to finishthe episode that I'm editing,
which I keep telling myself I'mgoing to get out this week, I am
going to slow down. And I'mgoing to enjoy this week. And

(04:21):
I'm gonna listen to what I needin each moment. That may inspire
me to finish it, who knows, itmay encourage me and invite me
to step away. Either way, Iwanted to invite and encourage

(04:48):
you to do the same thing thisweek as we head into our
holidays. I don't know aboutyou, but I'm super influenced by
the people that I love. And Iwant everything to be right. And

(05:13):
a lot of the expectations comefrom there. So I'm just going to
slow down and make sure thateverything is right inside for
me so that I can then offer myvery best self to them and

(05:40):
create each moment as it comes.
I'm Lisa Hopkins. Stay safe andhealthy everyone. And remember
to listen and live in the moment