January 1, 2025 • 37 mins
We start this new year with Cindy Claes (host). Let's dive into the transformative practices of journaling, visualisation, and meditation to help you reflect on the past year and set powerful intentions for the future. These exercises are tools that can be used whenever a reset is needed, or when you are transitioning between significant life chapters.
Take a notepad and pen, and don't hesitate to push the pause button to write down important journaling tasks!
Through a mix of personal insights and actionable practices, this episode guides you in:
- Reflecting on 2024: Acknowledging achievements, lessons learned, and embracing challenges.
- Journaling for Growth: Exploring the emotional and energetic layers of your experiences.
- Meditation for Clarity: Creating space to process and envision your next steps.
- Embodiment Practices: Grounding your intentions through physical and energetic integration.
- Future-Self Letters: Writing from the perspective of your future self to manifest desired experiences.
- Gratitude Practice: Cultivating appreciation for current blessings and the opportunities yet to come.
This episode offers tools and inspiration to close one chapter and confidently step into the next.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the Loud Whisperer Takeover podcast.
As you know by now, my name isCindy Klaas.
I'm an athletic creative.
Everything I do as a creative,whether that is making film,
writing a piece of theater orbeing an actress, there is
always an athletic componentsomehow to it.
Today, we are going to talkabout journaling, visualization,
meditation and embodying theenergies that we want to attract
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in our lives.
It was the end of 2024.
We are starting 2025.
In today's episode, I will besharing personal exercises that
I do when I end a chapter and Ikind of reflect on what really
happened, the energies I wentthrough through life, things
that I'm proud of, things that Icould have done better, and how
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I want to enter a new chapter,the new things I want to be
surrounded by, the new energies,the people, the tribe that I
want to build.
I am using these exercises ofjournaling, visualization,
meditation and embodiment forbirthdays, obviously at the end
of a year and at the start of anew year, at the end of a
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project, at the start of a newproject or any time that I feel
I need a bit of a reset or Iwant to enjoy a moment of
reflection, because how manytimes, as artists do we go quick
, quick, quick from one successto the other, to the other
project and we don't reallyreflect on what just happened.
And we don't really reflect onwhat just happened.
So be ready, put your seatbelton, have a notepad with you and
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a pen.
It's time to basically createsomething tangible, put into
matter these things that we havein our heart, these energies
and thoughts that can actuallybe actioned into real, beautiful
, material things that we canhave into our lives.
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Ready, let's go.
There might be exercises.
You are already very familiarwith others that are very new.
Either way, I invite you tojust try it all and then see
what really calls your soul inthe future.
Part one will be about wrappingup all what just happened the
last year, all the things thatyou went through, patting
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yourself on the back, taking amoment of whoa did I really do
that?
And also taking a moment of youknow what?
There was a real life lessonfor me in there, or a moment of
growth, or an opportunity for meto grow and do better, but I
didn't, you know, really grabthat moment by the horns.
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But I will do it this year.
So first we want to look at2024, or the previous chapter
that you just went through, aproject, you know, depending on
when you are listening to thisepisode.
And then afterwards we will doall what we want to attract in
the future and we want tomaterialize, make these thoughts
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somehow tangible, start tobasically create from energy a
little bit of matter.
So what I usually do is that Igo through a really deep
journaling process.
The journaling process to lookat 2024 starts with just writing
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down facts, very simple factswhat happened in January, what
happened in February, whathappened in March, what happened
in, what happened in February,what happened in March, what
happened in April, and so forthuntil December.
And I just write those big lifemoments.
Now, these big life momentscould be hey, I made a film.
It could be.
Hey, I was casted for something.
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It could also be.
Hey, I lost a friendship.
It could also be.
Hey, I actually started, youknow, a new hobby.
And now you know, 12 monthslater, I'm flipping, excelling
at it, or I'm starting to excelat it because I've been putting
in the hours, whatever it is.
I just like put all these factson paper.
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Then I start to dig deeper.
I start to dig deeper All thesefactual things that I did right
in my doing, with my doingenergy, making a film, getting
casted, writing a play.
Then I go deeper and I'm likehow did it feel?
What really happened on a soullevel?
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Was it fulfilling?
Was I truly aligned in thesemoments with where I wanted to
head, or did I just actuallyaccept to go on tour with a
production because I neededmoney, right?
It's very different to gothrough a casting process, get
casted and then all of a suddenbe in the production of your
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life or being, you know like onset with a tribe of people that
you truly connect with, versus,yay, I got casted and here I am
making a piece of art that Idon't resonate with, or where
work relationships are soflippant difficult, you know.
So what truly happened.
I write it down.
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How did it truly feel?
When were the moments that Iwas so aligned that made me feel
so alive?
When were the moments where Ihad to handle conflict and I did
it so well?
I really stepped into the shoesof my most powerful being, my
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most powerful being?
When did I have to addressconflict and did I lose power?
Reflecting back on it now, whatcould I have done differently
or what will I do differently inthe future?
What were the life lessons?
How did I grow?
Who did I become throughoutthese last 12 months?
I'm also writing something aboutgratefulness being grateful
about what happened and we willsee that when we're going to
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write you know, when we're goingto make a gratefulness journal
about 2025, it will look verydifferently, because we're going
to be grateful for all theenergies that are already coming
our way that we are not evenaware of yet.
But right now we're reallyfocusing on the year that passed
, 2024.
What am I grateful for?
What were the blessings indisguise?
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What were the moments ofsadness or anger where actually,
there was such a gem that Idiscovered about myself, about
others, about life?
So it's about findingforgiveness and gratefulness for
everything that happened in2024.
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This journaling process is veryimportant before you start
writing of where you're heading,because then you really
acknowledge, really truly deeplyacknowledge, on an energetic
and soul level, what justhappened.
It's a moment where you allowyourself to pat yourself on the
back, because very often, asartists, we just run from one
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project to the other.
We have to keep busy, but it'svery rare that we sit down and
we are like, hmm, cheers to youand when you breathe in and you
really really acknowledge allwhat you just went through.
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So take that time.
So take that time, really takethat time.
What I would then do becauseI'm still wrapping up, you know,
2024, is that I would meditateon it.
So, at this moment of meditation, you don't have to think, you
don't have to, you know,intellectualize it.
You don't have to, you know,intellectualize it.
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You can just give yourself theintention of processing and
letting things land.
So what I mean by that is youhave a moment of meditation, put
some music on if you want, bein total silence, just close
your eyes, whether that is forfive minutes, ten minutes, two
hours, depending on how familiaryou are already with a
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meditative practice, but juststart it with an intention of
letting everything land andprocessing everything that still
needs to be processed, whichmeans that whatever needs to be
acknowledged, whatever needs tobe celebrated you know, may that
really happen in your DNA, inyour soul, in your energetic
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field, and whatever still needsto be processed, meaning some
sadness, some anger, someunresolved conflicts.
May it happen during thismeditation, and sometimes you
don't have to intellectualize it, you just let your body and
your energetic field, do it foryou or your guardian angels or
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God or whatever you believe in,right, but you just take that
moment of silence to let thathappen naturally.
Then, once that has happened,you can also do an embodiment
exercise.
What I love to do is move anddance.
It is also very much inspiredby the dance manifestation
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practice of Lizzie Butterfly.
She has already come on thispodcast twice and will probably
come back again, so pleaselisten to that episode or
research dance manifestationfrom lizzie butterfly if you
would like to dive deeper intoher work.
What I do is I just give myselfan intention of letting my body
experience all what I'vewritten down and what I've
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meditated on in silence, so thatmy body can basically process
and absorb all the energies thatneeds to be absorbed or let go
of energies that need to be letgo of.
Maybe your embodiment practicelooks different.
Maybe you're dedicating a gymsession to it, and that's also
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all right.
Or maybe you're going for a runand you're giving yourself the
intention before you go out foryour run, that during this run,
things will get either releasedor generated or land or
processed or whatever, and youdon't have to do anything else
but give yourself that intention.
So, literally, it's meditationin motion.
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We don't always have tomeditate while sitting in
silence and sitting still.
We can also meditate whilemoving.
For me it's dance, for you itmight be something else.
A couple of extra ideas on whatyou could be journaling on.
What are the unforgettablemoments of 2024?
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Have a minimum of three 20things that made you smile, five
things that made you grow,three breakdowns that actually
eventually became a breakthroughor maybe not yet, because the
breakthrough might come in 2025.
When did you feel the mostenergized?
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How did your journey benefitothers or how will it benefit
others in the future?
Because you just gathered ahuge amount of skills or a huge
amount of experience that isabout to be shared.
What broke down in 2024?
But it's also equally anopportunity to build or rebuild.
Why did 2024 matter?
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Why was it important to gothrough that year for you on
your journey?
If you zoom out, so really thisexercise of journaling is about
zooming out.
When we zoom in, everything isso important, everything you
know can be so heartbreaking orso exhilarating.
But really, when we zoom out,where is the constant level of
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joy in all of these downs andups of life?
Again, journal about it, writeabout it, let your own conscious
just talk.
What I also suggest is don'tstop writing once you've just
written down one sentence.
You can make a drawing, you canmake bullet points, you can
make full sentences, thatdoesn't matter but write, write,
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write, write, write until trulythe pen takes over, until there
is a part of your consciousnessor unconsciousness that is
actually giving you answers thatyou didn't even think of.
So don't hesitate to really sitdown for maybe even two hours,
until it's not your brain andyour intellect that start
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writing down things on paper,but it's truly a deeper level of
your soul that starts to giveyou nudges and deeper life
lessons you had not even thoughtof.
Journal about it, meditateabout it and then make sure that
you embody it physically aswell.
Before we start talking about2025 and how we are actually
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going to generate new energies,new projects, new people in our
environment, I would like toshare a couple of things that I
went through in 2024.
Just to illustrate a couple ofthe exercises we were talking
about earlier.
I would say four big eventscrossed my path.
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Last year I made a short filmwith over 30 people on my team,
a dystopian sci-fi, which wasjust a phenomenal, phenomenal
project.
Every single department thatwould be working on a film was
represented and I learned a hellof a lot.
And in the midst of thisimmense success, there was also
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a mad conflict resolution momentthat I had to address and where
I had to fire someone.
That was a moment for me whereI had to step up as a leader,
where I also had the opportunityto basically tell the universe
hey, thank you for putting thisdifficult person on my path,
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because basically through thisconflict and through me
resolving this conflict andfiring this person, I literally
had a PhD in how to make film ina very stressful environment.
But I learned so much in thisone intense experience and I
increased my understanding as aproducer of who to hire, why to
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hire, how to hire somebody on myteam and move forward as a
filmmaker in this industry.
I also made this podcast.
I've talked about it in theearlier episodes.
It was a loud whisper that toldme I had to interview people.
I had to make it happen.
I am so happy that we arealready 20 plus episodes in and
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more are to come.
But how did I actually make ithappen?
Well, it's because there was amoment of true breakdown in my
life.
My mom got very sick.
She had ALS.
She had actually a bulbar onsetALS.
To summarize it, it affectsyour ability to swallow, so
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which means that, bit by bit,she couldn't eat anymore, she
couldn't drink anymore, she hadto be fed by a PEG tube.
It drives a person crazy,because when you have nothing to
taste in your mouth anymore andno meal to share with people
anymore, it is sociallyextremely distressing.
It also starts to affect themuscles of your tongue, which
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means that she was losing herability to speak.
This is also extremely,extremely saddening and
horrendous to watch a mom notbeing able to speak anymore,
because the conversation westarted having, you know, were
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very short because she couldn'tspeak anymore.
When I was traveling, Icouldn't call her anymore.
Socially, she started to feelmore and more isolated because
obviously other people wouldtalk but she couldn't really
respond anymore in the way thatshe would normally interact in a
social interaction.
Her breathing started to fail,literally.
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Walking from the kitchen to theliving room was like as if she
had run a marathon, and then therest started to happen as well,
which was paralysis, so shewould have been totally
paralyzed.
Over time, she was starting tolose the ability to use her
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hands, so grabbing thingsstarted to become a problem.
She couldn't sign a paperanymore, but obviously that has
a huge amount of consequencesbecause from brushing your teeth
to you know taking yourmedication to anything really
grabbing a piece of paperstarted to become difficult, or
even sending a text message onyour phone.
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She started to lose the muscles, like the ability to move her
muscles in one of her feet aswell.
So well, her breathing wasalready so impacted that we
needed to use a wheelchairanyway if we wanted to go on a
walk.
But this started to have alarger impact in even how she
could move in her own house.
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All this breakdown, all her bodybreaking down, actually
happened very, very fast, and Ispent months last year to take
care of her full-time.
At some point I became herfull-time caretaker because she
needed way too much help andsurveillance to make sure that
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you know nothing would happen toher, because you could either
asphyxiate and lose your abilityto breathe, and that's an
absolute, horrendous death, oryou could actually choke and
that could be on your own saliva.
So even during the night therewas an alarm in my room.
I was in charge of my mom'swell-being day and night,
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because obviously somethingcould happen at night as well.
And at the end she chose toleave this world and fly off
with her guardian angels byeuthanasia.
Euthanasia has been legal inBelgium since 2002.
In other countries they say theright to die with dignity.
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In Belgium it has been legalsince 2002.
There is obviously a verystrict legal system that
surrounds the ability to haveaccess to euthanasia, because
ALS, there is no cure for it andthe only thing that we can see
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is your body breaking down whileyour mind is totally intact.
So the patients are literallyin a situation where you know
the medical system can keep youalive for a very, very long time
and with a lot of support, butat what cost?
And at what social cost?
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At what emotional well-beingcost?
So my mom chose to depart byeuthanasia and obviously
accompanying her through thatdecision is not something I want
to call sad, but it issomething that I experienced
while going through it astotally surreal.
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Then, once it got legallyaccepted and she was able to
choose a date, she chose a date12 days before the injection.
She chose a date 12 days beforethe injection and then we were
facing together the fact that,hey, we still have, or only have
, 12 days together, 11, 10, 9, 8.
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And the countdown starts, andthen at some point there are
only a few hours left.
I never thought I would survive, not just losing my mom but now
having lost both of my parents,because there is something that
happens energetically when youhave none of your parents alive
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on earth anymore.
There is also something thathappens when you know there is a
time and a date of your lastgoodbyes.
In the midst of all thisincredible pain, there was also
an immense, immense gift from myancestors and the universe.
The last few months, havingbeen a full-time caretaker for
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my mom, and especially the lastfew days before she left by
euthanasia, it allowed me todive deeper into forgiveness,
because most people there issomething in our relationships
with our parents that can alwaysdo with a little bit more
forgiveness.
I dive deep into love Now.
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My relationship with my mom wasa beautiful one when she left,
but it's not always been like anamazing mother-daughter
relationship and an easy andsmooth one like in the movies.
But the healing part of ourrelationship got extremely
accelerated during these lastfew months and I dive deeper
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into love and devotion whiletaking care of her.
I've had the opportunity tohave such deep and profound
conversations with my mom that Ithink I would have never had,
and most people don't have theseconversations before they say
their last goodbyes.
I'm incredibly grateful forthese conversations that we had.
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This will probably be foranother episode, but, for
example, the podcast was bornbecause I was looking after my
mom and most of the time I wasat home.
So I didn't really know what todo and I thought, well, you
wanted to do this podcast for avery long time.
Now is the time I was at home.
So I didn't really know what todo and I thought, well, you
wanted to do this podcast for avery long time.
Now is the time You're at homeanyway, and that's how I was
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able to produce a huge amount ofcontent.
You know, the blessings indisguise during these moments
with my mom were obviouslyeverything.
The healing and the power andthe empowerment that I shared
with my mom were obviouslyeverything the healing and the
power and the empowerment that Ishared with my mom during those
moments.
But I also learned so muchabout life in general, about how
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to share these things with myfriends.
I knew my most of my friendsand nobody really was equipped
to hear what I had to say.
Everybody always wants to fix asituation, but when you
announce to your friends my momis sick and there is no cure,
nobody wants to hear it.
Everybody wants to say butthere must be something.
But there is nothing Likeliterally.
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Science has its limits andthere are moments where we have
to accept it and also, we arenot immortal.
There is a time of expirationand at some point you have to
surrender and be with that.
I found incredible peace withmy adult selves.
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There is an energy of meslipping into the shoes of the
matriarch, because that's who Iam now.
I am supported by my ancestorsand I am the head of the family
tree.
So while all of this washappening, I already journaled a
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lot, meditated a lot, embodieda lot.
It was even more important forme to really really journal and
look at what 2024 had offered me.
I refused to end 2024 withsadness or tears, and these
journaling, meditation andembodiment exercises are
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incredibly important to reallydig deeper and go beyond the
surface.
Society often tells you thatgrieving must be a sad event and
of course there is sadnessinvolved, but also there is a
huge amount of growth, a hugeamount of expansion, and I was
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able to find these momentsbecause of this journaling,
meditation and embodimentpractice.
So I hope that you too, bywrapping up 2024, you will come
to the same sort of ending of2024 and whatever chapter you
had to close for that year.
So, going from there, let'sstart to talk about 2025.
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Because this is starting now.
The first piece of journaling wecan do is just being grateful
for the things we have today tostart the year with.
But then what I always do aswell often when I do my weekly
journaling is what am I gratefulfor that I don't even know that
is already coming to me?
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Grateful for that?
I don't even know that isalready coming to me.
So maybe there are already jobsand gigs and castings and teams
that want to work with you ontheir way.
So often I also journal aboutthank you for all the people
that I will meet today, that Idon't even know of yet, but that
are going to bring some sort ofsmiles and happiness and joy
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into my life today.
Thank you for the good newsthat is coming my way.
Thank you for the surprises,the happy surprises, that are
coming my way.
Thank you for the money that isalready coming my way and into
my bank account, and very oftenyou will be surprised of how
this moment of gratefulness ofwhat's already coming to you but
that you're not aware of yet,is actually sending things to
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you faster.
Try it, let me know whathappens.
Then, of course, we have thejournaling about our goals right
, some people will call it goals.
I have years where I have veryspecific goals and I have years
where things are a bit morevague, and that's okay too.
I really want to insist on that, because sometimes specificity
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is great, and if you havesomething specific in mind, put
it down on paper.
But maybe it's a bit more vague.
Maybe there is a feeling, anenergy, a relationship, a thing
you can't really describe.
But there are words that sortof, you know, make it a vision
for you, even though nobody elseunderstands it, and that's okay
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too.
I've already manifested things,you know, certain years just
with these vague ideas, but Icould feel it, I could sense it,
I could describe the energy andthe colors around it.
Whatever you're at right now,it's okay.
Journal about it, put it inwords, because just by putting
even those simple words on paper.
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That's your first way ofputting thoughts on paper and
making it somehow matterTangible.
You can also journal, not justabout the things you want, but
also about the levels ofresistance you have to it.
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What are you resistingcurrently?
In other words, what are younot totally open for, not truly
believing, not truly trusting?
Again, write about it, let theunconscious take over, until the
pen takes over and not yourintellect.
And then, once you have really,you know, peeled the layers of
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the onions of what you areresisting to bring in 2025, then
start to say well, and how?
I will, you know, remove thislevel of resistance is by and
let again your unconscious talk.
What excites you about 2025?
Write about it.
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It Coming out of 2024, what isyour new mantra?
What is the mantra you can justrepeat every single day to
yourself, and it makes totalsense for you to be aligned and
for you to go into the rightdirection.
What are your fears?
Direction, what are your fears?
Do you have any fears for 2025?
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Be honest with yourself.
And how will you address thosefears?
Be honest with yourself.
Put in, you know, an actionplan.
Or, again, maybe it'sconnecting with an energy, with
a color, whatever, or maybe it'sconnecting with a very simple
action.
Then let's talk about theexpansion.
Who do I want to be in 2025?
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Which shoes do I want to walkin?
Why will 2025 matter and howcan I make 2025 matter more?
What a deep question, eh.
How can I make it matter andhow can I make it matter even
more?
What a deep question, eh.
How can I make it matter andhow can I make it matter even
more?
Whether you believe in God,whether you believe in guardian
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angels, whether you believe inthe universe, whether you
believe in none of it and youjust believe, you know, in the
people that are around you, thisquestion is still a powerful
one.
What do I request guidance ordivine guidance for it's more of
an intention, because you wantanswers to something or guidance
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it doesn't matter if you knowthat guidance come through your
mentor, your auntie, god or yourguardian angels and angels.
But what do you need andrequest divine guidance for?
What are you deeply trustingright now, and how can you even
trust this energy more, thisthing that you want in 2025 even
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more?
What will you do with morepotency and compassion and love
and fun in 2025.
And then the big journalingexercise.
It's a really exciting one.
I have used the DIS techniquevery often.
It's basically to write aletter from the perspective of
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your future self, and yourfuture self just went through or
just experienced that thingthat you wanted to happen.
For example, let's say that youwould love to buy a house.
You want to, you know, attractthe abundance to be able to buy
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a home.
You would then write a letterand say, well, I just bought the
house of my dreams, right?
Or the apartment of my dreams.
And then you write, youdescribe, you know, oh my God, I
just, you know, signed thecontract and I just received the
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keys.
I'm about to, you know, to putthe keys in the lock and I'm
opening this door.
And when I open this door andwalk into this house, I'm not
visiting the house, it is mineand the real estate agent he had
a beard and he was so cute andso kind and so gentle and he was
actually, you know, celebratingwith me that I'm a first time
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buyer.
Wow, you described the momentas if you had just signed this
contract and you're about toenter your house.
Or maybe you want to attract apartner, a romantic partner in
your life, partner in your life,and you describe wow, we're
sitting here in the sofa andwe're so tired because we just
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went on a trip to Thailandtogether and we did so many
things.
It was so fun.
And we just came from theairport we lost our luggages.
But who cares, because we justhad fun.
And we're about to fall asleepon the sofa together after a
beautiful, romantic two-weekholiday in Thailand.
And today, well, we're alsocelebrating the fact that we
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have been together for sixmonths, twelve months, whatever,
but you're just writing it fromthe perspective of you know,
you're writing it a little bitas a film, right?
You're writing it as if it hadjust happened and your future
self just went through thatexperience and it's freaking
amazing.
You can do the same thing for arole you would love to play,
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right, as an actor.
Um, a grant, a subsidy that youwant to receive to create your
choreographic work.
You just received the letter.
You're holding the letter inyour hands and it says we have
just granted you 11 000 euros tocreate your next piece of work
and make it as real as possible.
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When you're writing this letterfrom the perspective of your
future self that justexperienced a moment of making
your dream a reality.
Right, what types of smell arethere in the room, you know?
How does the fabric of theclothes you're wearing feel?
What are the colors of whatyou're wearing?
What are the colors of thewalls?
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What does the person you arewith look like?
What is this real estate agentlike you know?
Does he have a beard, blue eyes?
What is this real estate agentlike you know?
Does he have a beard, blue eyes?
This partner that you justattracted in your life, you know
, like, how does you know hisskin smell when you're falling
asleep on the sofa with him?
Right, when you are filming forthis dream role?
How many people are with youright now in the makeup room?
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What kind of relationship doyou have with the director?
Or you know the guys that aredoing the lights?
And is there somebody that issuper funny?
Or is there somebody incatering that you just had a
joke with?
So, be as detailed, as detailedas possible.
You're going to see it's superfun.
It really gets you into thezone and puts you energetically
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into the vibe of it alreadyhappened, which goes back to the
gratefulness journal.
Thank you.
Thank you for bringing in apartner in my life that I can
fall asleep with on the sofaafter a two week holiday having
fun in Thailand and saying, wow,we just did that because we've
been together for six months andwe're madly in love.
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Thank you, right.
So write it all down in detailAgain once you've done the
journaling part, or before thejournaling part.
Spend some time trulyvisualizing it.
The visualization is part ofthe journaling and the
meditation.
You can use it as a meditativeexercise or you can use it for
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your journaling practice.
Visualize it, see it in colorNot in black and white, in color
.
Have the smells, have thedetails of your clothes and even
you know your earrings,everything, the makeup,
everything.
See it, feel it, be it.
After the meditation practice,practice again.
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You can either do a very activemeditation because you're
visualizing every detail of whatyou've just written down, or
you just give the intention inthe beginning of I'm going to
sit in silence and I'm givingthis dream to the universe, or
god or my guardian angels or who.
I've written it down and itfeels good and I'm going to take
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a moment to sit in silence Atthe end of this meditation.
You can also dedicate theenergy of that meditation to all
sentient beings.
It's a Buddhist practice whereyou just allow everybody in this
world to benefit from theenergy you just generated.
So if there are other peoplethat are dreaming of a romantic
partner, may they also benefitfrom this meditation.
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You dedicate it to them too.
If there are other people thatwant to generate the abundance
of becoming a first-time homeowner, may they benefit from
this meditation too.
Or if people want to be castedin the film of their dreams as
an actor, may they benefit fromthis meditation too.
Or if people want to be castedin the film of their dreams as
an actor, maybe benefit fromthis meditation too.
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And then don't forget theembodiment part.
Whether you want to dance it sothat you really feel it in your
body, whether you want to gofor a run or dedicate a gym
session to it, make sure thatyour body fully integrates all
what you've been writing about,meditating, about, visualizing,
about.
I'm wishing you an awesome 2025.
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Also, you can use all thesejournaling, gratefulness,
meditation, visualization andembodiment practices at any
moment of your path.
I actually journal very oftenon a weekly basis or at the end
of a project and the beginningof another one.
Let me know how it goes.
Stay tuned and I'll see you inthe next episode.
Welcome to the Loud Whisperer Takeover podcast.
As you know by now, my name isCindy Klaas.
I'm an athletic creative.
Everything I do as a creative,whether that is making film,
writing a piece of theater orbeing an actress, there is
always an athletic componentsomehow to it.
Today, we are going to talkabout journaling, visualization,
meditation and embodying theenergies that we want to attract
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in our lives.
It was the end of 2024.
We are starting 2025.
In today's episode, I will besharing personal exercises that
I do when I end a chapter and Ikind of reflect on what really
happened, the energies I wentthrough through life, things
that I'm proud of, things that Icould have done better, and how
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I want to enter a new chapter,the new things I want to be
surrounded by, the new energies,the people, the tribe that I
want to build.
I am using these exercises ofjournaling, visualization,
meditation and embodiment forbirthdays, obviously at the end
of a year and at the start of anew year, at the end of a
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project, at the start of a newproject or any time that I feel
I need a bit of a reset or Iwant to enjoy a moment of
reflection, because how manytimes, as artists do we go quick
, quick, quick from one successto the other, to the other
project and we don't reallyreflect on what just happened.
And we don't really reflect onwhat just happened.
So be ready, put your seatbelton, have a notepad with you and
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a pen.
It's time to basically createsomething tangible, put into
matter these things that we havein our heart, these energies
and thoughts that can actuallybe actioned into real, beautiful
, material things that we canhave into our lives.
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Ready, let's go.
There might be exercises.
You are already very familiarwith others that are very new.
Either way, I invite you tojust try it all and then see
what really calls your soul inthe future.
Part one will be about wrappingup all what just happened the
last year, all the things thatyou went through, patting
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yourself on the back, taking amoment of whoa did I really do
that?
And also taking a moment of youknow what?
There was a real life lessonfor me in there, or a moment of
growth, or an opportunity for meto grow and do better, but I
didn't, you know, really grabthat moment by the horns.
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But I will do it this year.
So first we want to look at2024, or the previous chapter
that you just went through, aproject, you know, depending on
when you are listening to thisepisode.
And then afterwards we will doall what we want to attract in
the future and we want tomaterialize, make these thoughts
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somehow tangible, start tobasically create from energy a
little bit of matter.
So what I usually do is that Igo through a really deep
journaling process.
The journaling process to lookat 2024 starts with just writing
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down facts, very simple factswhat happened in January, what
happened in February, whathappened in March, what happened
in, what happened in February,what happened in March, what
happened in April, and so forthuntil December.
And I just write those big lifemoments.
Now, these big life momentscould be hey, I made a film.
It could be.
Hey, I was casted for something.
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It could also be.
Hey, I lost a friendship.
It could also be.
Hey, I actually started, youknow, a new hobby.
And now you know, 12 monthslater, I'm flipping, excelling
at it, or I'm starting to excelat it because I've been putting
in the hours, whatever it is.
I just like put all these factson paper.
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Then I start to dig deeper.
I start to dig deeper All thesefactual things that I did right
in my doing, with my doingenergy, making a film, getting
casted, writing a play.
Then I go deeper and I'm likehow did it feel?
What really happened on a soullevel?
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Was it fulfilling?
Was I truly aligned in thesemoments with where I wanted to
head, or did I just actuallyaccept to go on tour with a
production because I neededmoney, right?
It's very different to gothrough a casting process, get
casted and then all of a suddenbe in the production of your
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life or being, you know like onset with a tribe of people that
you truly connect with, versus,yay, I got casted and here I am
making a piece of art that Idon't resonate with, or where
work relationships are soflippant difficult, you know.
So what truly happened.
I write it down.
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How did it truly feel?
When were the moments that Iwas so aligned that made me feel
so alive?
When were the moments where Ihad to handle conflict and I did
it so well?
I really stepped into the shoesof my most powerful being, my
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most powerful being?
When did I have to addressconflict and did I lose power?
Reflecting back on it now, whatcould I have done differently
or what will I do differently inthe future?
What were the life lessons?
How did I grow?
Who did I become throughoutthese last 12 months?
I'm also writing something aboutgratefulness being grateful
about what happened and we willsee that when we're going to
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write you know, when we're goingto make a gratefulness journal
about 2025, it will look verydifferently, because we're going
to be grateful for all theenergies that are already coming
our way that we are not evenaware of yet.
But right now we're reallyfocusing on the year that passed
, 2024.
What am I grateful for?
What were the blessings indisguise?
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What were the moments ofsadness or anger where actually,
there was such a gem that Idiscovered about myself, about
others, about life?
So it's about findingforgiveness and gratefulness for
everything that happened in2024.
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This journaling process is veryimportant before you start
writing of where you're heading,because then you really
acknowledge, really truly deeplyacknowledge, on an energetic
and soul level, what justhappened.
It's a moment where you allowyourself to pat yourself on the
back, because very often, asartists, we just run from one
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project to the other.
We have to keep busy, but it'svery rare that we sit down and
we are like, hmm, cheers to youand when you breathe in and you
really really acknowledge allwhat you just went through.
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So take that time.
So take that time, really takethat time.
What I would then do becauseI'm still wrapping up, you know,
2024, is that I would meditateon it.
So, at this moment of meditation, you don't have to think, you
don't have to, you know,intellectualize it.
You don't have to, you know,intellectualize it.
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You can just give yourself theintention of processing and
letting things land.
So what I mean by that is youhave a moment of meditation, put
some music on if you want, bein total silence, just close
your eyes, whether that is forfive minutes, ten minutes, two
hours, depending on how familiaryou are already with a
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meditative practice, but juststart it with an intention of
letting everything land andprocessing everything that still
needs to be processed, whichmeans that whatever needs to be
acknowledged, whatever needs tobe celebrated you know, may that
really happen in your DNA, inyour soul, in your energetic
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field, and whatever still needsto be processed, meaning some
sadness, some anger, someunresolved conflicts.
May it happen during thismeditation, and sometimes you
don't have to intellectualize it, you just let your body and
your energetic field, do it foryou or your guardian angels or
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God or whatever you believe in,right, but you just take that
moment of silence to let thathappen naturally.
Then, once that has happened,you can also do an embodiment
exercise.
What I love to do is move anddance.
It is also very much inspiredby the dance manifestation
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practice of Lizzie Butterfly.
She has already come on thispodcast twice and will probably
come back again, so pleaselisten to that episode or
research dance manifestationfrom lizzie butterfly if you
would like to dive deeper intoher work.
What I do is I just give myselfan intention of letting my body
experience all what I'vewritten down and what I've
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meditated on in silence, so thatmy body can basically process
and absorb all the energies thatneeds to be absorbed or let go
of energies that need to be letgo of.
Maybe your embodiment practicelooks different.
Maybe you're dedicating a gymsession to it, and that's also
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all right.
Or maybe you're going for a runand you're giving yourself the
intention before you go out foryour run, that during this run,
things will get either releasedor generated or land or
processed or whatever, and youdon't have to do anything else
but give yourself that intention.
So, literally, it's meditationin motion.
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We don't always have tomeditate while sitting in
silence and sitting still.
We can also meditate whilemoving.
For me it's dance, for you itmight be something else.
A couple of extra ideas on whatyou could be journaling on.
What are the unforgettablemoments of 2024?
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Have a minimum of three 20things that made you smile, five
things that made you grow,three breakdowns that actually
eventually became a breakthroughor maybe not yet, because the
breakthrough might come in 2025.
When did you feel the mostenergized?
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How did your journey benefitothers or how will it benefit
others in the future?
Because you just gathered ahuge amount of skills or a huge
amount of experience that isabout to be shared.
What broke down in 2024?
But it's also equally anopportunity to build or rebuild.
Why did 2024 matter?
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Why was it important to gothrough that year for you on
your journey?
If you zoom out, so really thisexercise of journaling is about
zooming out.
When we zoom in, everything isso important, everything you
know can be so heartbreaking orso exhilarating.
But really, when we zoom out,where is the constant level of
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joy in all of these downs andups of life?
Again, journal about it, writeabout it, let your own conscious
just talk.
What I also suggest is don'tstop writing once you've just
written down one sentence.
You can make a drawing, you canmake bullet points, you can
make full sentences, thatdoesn't matter but write, write,
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write, write, write until trulythe pen takes over, until there
is a part of your consciousnessor unconsciousness that is
actually giving you answers thatyou didn't even think of.
So don't hesitate to really sitdown for maybe even two hours,
until it's not your brain andyour intellect that start
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writing down things on paper,but it's truly a deeper level of
your soul that starts to giveyou nudges and deeper life
lessons you had not even thoughtof.
Journal about it, meditateabout it and then make sure that
you embody it physically aswell.
Before we start talking about2025 and how we are actually
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going to generate new energies,new projects, new people in our
environment, I would like toshare a couple of things that I
went through in 2024.
Just to illustrate a couple ofthe exercises we were talking
about earlier.
I would say four big eventscrossed my path.
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Last year I made a short filmwith over 30 people on my team,
a dystopian sci-fi, which wasjust a phenomenal, phenomenal
project.
Every single department thatwould be working on a film was
represented and I learned a hellof a lot.
And in the midst of thisimmense success, there was also
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a mad conflict resolution momentthat I had to address and where
I had to fire someone.
That was a moment for me whereI had to step up as a leader,
where I also had the opportunityto basically tell the universe
hey, thank you for putting thisdifficult person on my path,
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because basically through thisconflict and through me
resolving this conflict andfiring this person, I literally
had a PhD in how to make film ina very stressful environment.
But I learned so much in thisone intense experience and I
increased my understanding as aproducer of who to hire, why to
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hire, how to hire somebody on myteam and move forward as a
filmmaker in this industry.
I also made this podcast.
I've talked about it in theearlier episodes.
It was a loud whisper that toldme I had to interview people.
I had to make it happen.
I am so happy that we arealready 20 plus episodes in and
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more are to come.
But how did I actually make ithappen?
Well, it's because there was amoment of true breakdown in my
life.
My mom got very sick.
She had ALS.
She had actually a bulbar onsetALS.
To summarize it, it affectsyour ability to swallow, so
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which means that, bit by bit,she couldn't eat anymore, she
couldn't drink anymore, she hadto be fed by a PEG tube.
It drives a person crazy,because when you have nothing to
taste in your mouth anymore andno meal to share with people
anymore, it is sociallyextremely distressing.
It also starts to affect themuscles of your tongue, which
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means that she was losing herability to speak.
This is also extremely,extremely saddening and
horrendous to watch a mom notbeing able to speak anymore,
because the conversation westarted having, you know, were
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very short because she couldn'tspeak anymore.
When I was traveling, Icouldn't call her anymore.
Socially, she started to feelmore and more isolated because
obviously other people wouldtalk but she couldn't really
respond anymore in the way thatshe would normally interact in a
social interaction.
Her breathing started to fail,literally.
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Walking from the kitchen to theliving room was like as if she
had run a marathon, and then therest started to happen as well,
which was paralysis, so shewould have been totally
paralyzed.
Over time, she was starting tolose the ability to use her
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hands, so grabbing thingsstarted to become a problem.
She couldn't sign a paperanymore, but obviously that has
a huge amount of consequencesbecause from brushing your teeth
to you know taking yourmedication to anything really
grabbing a piece of paperstarted to become difficult, or
even sending a text message onyour phone.
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She started to lose the muscles, like the ability to move her
muscles in one of her feet aswell.
So well, her breathing wasalready so impacted that we
needed to use a wheelchairanyway if we wanted to go on a
walk.
But this started to have alarger impact in even how she
could move in her own house.
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All this breakdown, all her bodybreaking down, actually
happened very, very fast, and Ispent months last year to take
care of her full-time.
At some point I became herfull-time caretaker because she
needed way too much help andsurveillance to make sure that
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you know nothing would happen toher, because you could either
asphyxiate and lose your abilityto breathe, and that's an
absolute, horrendous death, oryou could actually choke and
that could be on your own saliva.
So even during the night therewas an alarm in my room.
I was in charge of my mom'swell-being day and night,
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because obviously somethingcould happen at night as well.
And at the end she chose toleave this world and fly off
with her guardian angels byeuthanasia.
Euthanasia has been legal inBelgium since 2002.
In other countries they say theright to die with dignity.
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In Belgium it has been legalsince 2002.
There is obviously a verystrict legal system that
surrounds the ability to haveaccess to euthanasia, because
ALS, there is no cure for it andthe only thing that we can see
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is your body breaking down whileyour mind is totally intact.
So the patients are literallyin a situation where you know
the medical system can keep youalive for a very, very long time
and with a lot of support, butat what cost?
And at what social cost?
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At what emotional well-beingcost?
So my mom chose to depart byeuthanasia and obviously
accompanying her through thatdecision is not something I want
to call sad, but it issomething that I experienced
while going through it astotally surreal.
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Then, once it got legallyaccepted and she was able to
choose a date, she chose a date12 days before the injection.
She chose a date 12 days beforethe injection and then we were
facing together the fact that,hey, we still have, or only have
, 12 days together, 11, 10, 9, 8.
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And the countdown starts, andthen at some point there are
only a few hours left.
I never thought I would survive, not just losing my mom but now
having lost both of my parents,because there is something that
happens energetically when youhave none of your parents alive
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on earth anymore.
There is also something thathappens when you know there is a
time and a date of your lastgoodbyes.
In the midst of all thisincredible pain, there was also
an immense, immense gift from myancestors and the universe.
The last few months, havingbeen a full-time caretaker for
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my mom, and especially the lastfew days before she left by
euthanasia, it allowed me todive deeper into forgiveness,
because most people there issomething in our relationships
with our parents that can alwaysdo with a little bit more
forgiveness.
I dive deep into love Now.
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My relationship with my mom wasa beautiful one when she left,
but it's not always been like anamazing mother-daughter
relationship and an easy andsmooth one like in the movies.
But the healing part of ourrelationship got extremely
accelerated during these lastfew months and I dive deeper
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into love and devotion whiletaking care of her.
I've had the opportunity tohave such deep and profound
conversations with my mom that Ithink I would have never had,
and most people don't have theseconversations before they say
their last goodbyes.
I'm incredibly grateful forthese conversations that we had.
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This will probably be foranother episode, but, for
example, the podcast was bornbecause I was looking after my
mom and most of the time I wasat home.
So I didn't really know what todo and I thought, well, you
wanted to do this podcast for avery long time.
Now is the time I was at home.
So I didn't really know what todo and I thought, well, you
wanted to do this podcast for avery long time.
Now is the time You're at homeanyway, and that's how I was
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able to produce a huge amount ofcontent.
You know, the blessings indisguise during these moments
with my mom were obviouslyeverything.
The healing and the power andthe empowerment that I shared
with my mom were obviouslyeverything the healing and the
power and the empowerment that Ishared with my mom during those
moments.
But I also learned so muchabout life in general, about how
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to share these things with myfriends.
I knew my most of my friendsand nobody really was equipped
to hear what I had to say.
Everybody always wants to fix asituation, but when you
announce to your friends my momis sick and there is no cure,
nobody wants to hear it.
Everybody wants to say butthere must be something.
But there is nothing Likeliterally.
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Science has its limits andthere are moments where we have
to accept it and also, we arenot immortal.
There is a time of expirationand at some point you have to
surrender and be with that.
I found incredible peace withmy adult selves.
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There is an energy of meslipping into the shoes of the
matriarch, because that's who Iam now.
I am supported by my ancestorsand I am the head of the family
tree.
So while all of this washappening, I already journaled a
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lot, meditated a lot, embodieda lot.
It was even more important forme to really really journal and
look at what 2024 had offered me.
I refused to end 2024 withsadness or tears, and these
journaling, meditation andembodiment exercises are
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incredibly important to reallydig deeper and go beyond the
surface.
Society often tells you thatgrieving must be a sad event and
of course there is sadnessinvolved, but also there is a
huge amount of growth, a hugeamount of expansion, and I was
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able to find these momentsbecause of this journaling,
meditation and embodimentpractice.
So I hope that you too, bywrapping up 2024, you will come
to the same sort of ending of2024 and whatever chapter you
had to close for that year.
So, going from there, let'sstart to talk about 2025.
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Because this is starting now.
The first piece of journaling wecan do is just being grateful
for the things we have today tostart the year with.
But then what I always do aswell often when I do my weekly
journaling is what am I gratefulfor that I don't even know that
is already coming to me?
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Grateful for that?
I don't even know that isalready coming to me.
So maybe there are already jobsand gigs and castings and teams
that want to work with you ontheir way.
So often I also journal aboutthank you for all the people
that I will meet today, that Idon't even know of yet, but that
are going to bring some sort ofsmiles and happiness and joy
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into my life today.
Thank you for the good newsthat is coming my way.
Thank you for the surprises,the happy surprises, that are
coming my way.
Thank you for the money that isalready coming my way and into
my bank account, and very oftenyou will be surprised of how
this moment of gratefulness ofwhat's already coming to you but
that you're not aware of yet,is actually sending things to
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you faster.
Try it, let me know whathappens.
Then, of course, we have thejournaling about our goals right
, some people will call it goals.
I have years where I have veryspecific goals and I have years
where things are a bit morevague, and that's okay too.
I really want to insist on that, because sometimes specificity
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is great, and if you havesomething specific in mind, put
it down on paper.
But maybe it's a bit more vague.
Maybe there is a feeling, anenergy, a relationship, a thing
you can't really describe.
But there are words that sortof, you know, make it a vision
for you, even though nobody elseunderstands it, and that's okay
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too.
I've already manifested things,you know, certain years just
with these vague ideas, but Icould feel it, I could sense it,
I could describe the energy andthe colors around it.
Whatever you're at right now,it's okay.
Journal about it, put it inwords, because just by putting
even those simple words on paper.
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That's your first way ofputting thoughts on paper and
making it somehow matterTangible.
You can also journal, not justabout the things you want, but
also about the levels ofresistance you have to it.
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What are you resistingcurrently?
In other words, what are younot totally open for, not truly
believing, not truly trusting?
Again, write about it, let theunconscious take over, until the
pen takes over and not yourintellect.
And then, once you have really,you know, peeled the layers of
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the onions of what you areresisting to bring in 2025, then
start to say well, and how?
I will, you know, remove thislevel of resistance is by and
let again your unconscious talk.
What excites you about 2025?
Write about it.
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It Coming out of 2024, what isyour new mantra?
What is the mantra you can justrepeat every single day to
yourself, and it makes totalsense for you to be aligned and
for you to go into the rightdirection.
What are your fears?
Direction, what are your fears?
Do you have any fears for 2025?
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Be honest with yourself.
And how will you address thosefears?
Be honest with yourself.
Put in, you know, an actionplan.
Or, again, maybe it'sconnecting with an energy, with
a color, whatever, or maybe it'sconnecting with a very simple
action.
Then let's talk about theexpansion.
Who do I want to be in 2025?
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Which shoes do I want to walkin?
Why will 2025 matter and howcan I make 2025 matter more?
What a deep question, eh.
How can I make it matter andhow can I make it matter even
more?
What a deep question, eh.
How can I make it matter andhow can I make it matter even
more?
Whether you believe in God,whether you believe in guardian
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angels, whether you believe inthe universe, whether you
believe in none of it and youjust believe, you know, in the
people that are around you, thisquestion is still a powerful
one.
What do I request guidance ordivine guidance for it's more of
an intention, because you wantanswers to something or guidance
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it doesn't matter if you knowthat guidance come through your
mentor, your auntie, god or yourguardian angels and angels.
But what do you need andrequest divine guidance for?
What are you deeply trustingright now, and how can you even
trust this energy more, thisthing that you want in 2025 even
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more?
What will you do with morepotency and compassion and love
and fun in 2025.
And then the big journalingexercise.
It's a really exciting one.
I have used the DIS techniquevery often.
It's basically to write aletter from the perspective of
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your future self, and yourfuture self just went through or
just experienced that thingthat you wanted to happen.
For example, let's say that youwould love to buy a house.
You want to, you know, attractthe abundance to be able to buy
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a home.
You would then write a letterand say, well, I just bought the
house of my dreams, right?
Or the apartment of my dreams.
And then you write, youdescribe, you know, oh my God, I
just, you know, signed thecontract and I just received the
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keys.
I'm about to, you know, to putthe keys in the lock and I'm
opening this door.
And when I open this door andwalk into this house, I'm not
visiting the house, it is mineand the real estate agent he had
a beard and he was so cute andso kind and so gentle and he was
actually, you know, celebratingwith me that I'm a first time
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buyer.
Wow, you described the momentas if you had just signed this
contract and you're about toenter your house.
Or maybe you want to attract apartner, a romantic partner in
your life, partner in your life,and you describe wow, we're
sitting here in the sofa andwe're so tired because we just
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went on a trip to Thailandtogether and we did so many
things.
It was so fun.
And we just came from theairport we lost our luggages.
But who cares, because we justhad fun.
And we're about to fall asleepon the sofa together after a
beautiful, romantic two-weekholiday in Thailand.
And today, well, we're alsocelebrating the fact that we
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have been together for sixmonths, twelve months, whatever,
but you're just writing it fromthe perspective of you know,
you're writing it a little bitas a film, right?
You're writing it as if it hadjust happened and your future
self just went through thatexperience and it's freaking
amazing.
You can do the same thing for arole you would love to play,
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right, as an actor.
Um, a grant, a subsidy that youwant to receive to create your
choreographic work.
You just received the letter.
You're holding the letter inyour hands and it says we have
just granted you 11 000 euros tocreate your next piece of work
and make it as real as possible.
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When you're writing this letterfrom the perspective of your
future self that justexperienced a moment of making
your dream a reality.
Right, what types of smell arethere in the room, you know?
How does the fabric of theclothes you're wearing feel?
What are the colors of whatyou're wearing?
What are the colors of thewalls?
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What does the person you arewith look like?
What is this real estate agentlike you know?
Does he have a beard, blue eyes?
What is this real estate agentlike you know?
Does he have a beard, blue eyes?
This partner that you justattracted in your life, you know
, like, how does you know hisskin smell when you're falling
asleep on the sofa with him?
Right, when you are filming forthis dream role?
How many people are with youright now in the makeup room?
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What kind of relationship doyou have with the director?
Or you know the guys that aredoing the lights?
And is there somebody that issuper funny?
Or is there somebody incatering that you just had a
joke with?
So, be as detailed, as detailedas possible.
You're going to see it's superfun.
It really gets you into thezone and puts you energetically
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into the vibe of it alreadyhappened, which goes back to the
gratefulness journal.
Thank you.
Thank you for bringing in apartner in my life that I can
fall asleep with on the sofaafter a two week holiday having
fun in Thailand and saying, wow,we just did that because we've
been together for six months andwe're madly in love.
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Thank you, right.
So write it all down in detailAgain once you've done the
journaling part, or before thejournaling part.
Spend some time trulyvisualizing it.
The visualization is part ofthe journaling and the
meditation.
You can use it as a meditativeexercise or you can use it for
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your journaling practice.
Visualize it, see it in colorNot in black and white, in color
.
Have the smells, have thedetails of your clothes and even
you know your earrings,everything, the makeup,
everything.
See it, feel it, be it.
After the meditation practice,practice again.
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You can either do a very activemeditation because you're
visualizing every detail of whatyou've just written down, or
you just give the intention inthe beginning of I'm going to
sit in silence and I'm givingthis dream to the universe, or
god or my guardian angels or who.
I've written it down and itfeels good and I'm going to take
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a moment to sit in silence Atthe end of this meditation.
You can also dedicate theenergy of that meditation to all
sentient beings.
It's a Buddhist practice whereyou just allow everybody in this
world to benefit from theenergy you just generated.
So if there are other peoplethat are dreaming of a romantic
partner, may they also benefitfrom this meditation.
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You dedicate it to them too.
If there are other people thatwant to generate the abundance
of becoming a first-time homeowner, may they benefit from
this meditation too.
Or if people want to be castedin the film of their dreams as
an actor, may they benefit fromthis meditation too.
Or if people want to be castedin the film of their dreams as
an actor, maybe benefit fromthis meditation too.
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And then don't forget theembodiment part.
Whether you want to dance it sothat you really feel it in your
body, whether you want to gofor a run or dedicate a gym
session to it, make sure thatyour body fully integrates all
what you've been writing about,meditating, about, visualizing,
about.
I'm wishing you an awesome 2025.
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Also, you can use all thesejournaling, gratefulness,
meditation, visualization andembodiment practices at any
moment of your path.
I actually journal very oftenon a weekly basis or at the end
of a project and the beginningof another one.
Let me know how it goes.
Stay tuned and I'll see you inthe next episode.
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