October 31, 2023 • 28 mins
What if you could empower yourself to shatter labels, smash generalizations, and unleash your inner supermanifestor? We're digging deep into this provocative question on today's episode of Manifesting Latina Podcast. As your host, Dr. Norma Reyes, I'm sharing my personal insights into the restricting power of labels - labels like 'Mexican American', which may celebrate our heritage but can often 'other' us and hinder our growth. We'll also examine the self-limiting generalizations we tend to make such as 'I'm not good with money', and discuss how challenging these can open up pathways to expansion and self-empowerment.
Moving forward, we'll explore how you can take control of these labels, redefining them to fuel your personal manifesting journey. Discover the significance of inner connection through practices like meditation, yoga, and journaling, and how these can supercharge your manifestation process. Today, we're not just discussing how to drop the labels that limit us, but also on how you can craft your personal manifesting journey, one where you define the meaning of labels to suit your aspirations. Remember, you're the special sauce in your manifesting journey - awaken your inner manifester and supermanifestor with me, right here on Manifesting Latina Podcast.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Welcome to the Manifesting Latina Podcast,
where you'll learn to unlockyour incredible power of
manifestation and connect deeplywith yourself.
I'm Dr Norma Reyes, your guideand host, helping you manifest a
life filled with purpose,abundance and inner wisdom.
Together, we'll dive into theart of manifestation, practical
(00:26):
techniques, personal growth andthe magic of aligning with your
deepest desires.
No more feeling stuck ordisconnected.
It's time to awaken your innermanifester, embrace your
spirituality and create a lifethat truly resonates with your
soul.
Tune in each week to theManifesting Latina Podcast and
(00:49):
begin to manifest your dreamlife.
Hey everyone, welcome back.
This is episode 110.
I have to think on that.
One 110.
And today is going to be aboutletting go of generalizations,
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letting go of labels.
I absolutely hate labels andfor the longest time I avoided
kind of just taking ownership ofany labels.
Like I don't even like thelabel Mexican American.
I'm going to tell you why.
And really, like the wholelabel thing started with like
Hispanic, because Hispanic is amade up word that was done for
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the US census and it reallydoesn't mean anything.
It has nothing to do.
It's like it doesn't even makesense.
The label doesn't cover everysingle person that it should,
because of whatever.
And I'm going to share withy'all why you need to let go of
generalization so that you canbecome the supermanifestor you
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were meant to become.
Labels and generalizationslimit you.
If you are buying intogeneralizations such as I am
smart, or I am dumb, or I'm notgood at money, or you know so
and so is so much better atmoney than I am, or they are
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just lucky, generalizations willhelp you stay small.
So take a moment to think aboutany generalizations that are
coming up as I'm talking and jotthem down.
Jot them down because those arethe first ones that you need to
work on letting go.
And generalizations come fromeverywhere.
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You know I'm not going to saythat I've probably haven't said
a generalization.
I probably have and I probablywill continue at some point, but
it's important to know whensomething is a generalization.
I get so triggered when I seesomebody making a generalization
in social media and this is whyI always say you know, you are
the person that knows yourselfbest and you can decide what
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works for you and what doesn'twork, and that's how you tune in
into your intuition and that ishow you become a
supermanifestor.
If you are allowing people'sgeneralizations and labels to
confine you, then you cannotbecome the supermanifestor that
you want to become.
It's really that simple, andyou know when's the last time
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you heard someone talking aboutthat?
I've never heard that myself.
I actually just started thinkingabout it on my walk because I
am doing more intentional,manifesting routines and more
manifesting daily habits.
And so it's the afternoon time.
I decided to go take a walk.
I decided not to tell myself,oh, it's already too late, I
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already have to go pick up myson.
I said, no, it's going to takeme no more than 10 minutes to go
do my little walk and justthink.
I don't listen to any musicduring this time, because it's
meant to be just a time to walk,move my body and see what comes
in.
And I saw something somewhere,and I saw a generalization.
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And I'm like, oh my God, I haveto share about this.
And I was just going to do anInstagram story, but decided to
do an episode instead On theimportance of letting go of
generalizations and labels,because labels and
generalizations are limiting you, they are keeping you small,
and so this is why I started offwith I do not like the label
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Mexican American.
I am very proud that I come fromMexican heritage, but when we
take labels such as MexicanAmerican, we are also calling
ourselves other.
Do you think white people callthemselves Anglo Americans or
white Americans or ItalianAmericans or Irish, whatever
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their heritage is?
No, they just say American andthey probably don't even say
American in reality.
We minorities have been taughtto buy into these labels and the
only reason is foridentification to be labeled as
other.
If someone asks you, what areyou?
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You're a human being.
You are not a label of somesort that catarises your race
and you can answer that questionhowever you want.
The next time someone asks you,what are you?
So this is why I do not likethe label of Mexican American.
There's nothing wrong.
I've used it before.
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I've called myself a MexicanAmerican.
I've put it into descriptions.
There's nothing wrong with thelabel, as long as you put the
intention behind the label.
I put it in things so thatpeople can know and identify
with my heritage, so that ifthey are interested in working
with a Latina who is MexicanAmerican and I also list first
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generation they know that Iunderstand the issues and
problems of someone who is aMexican American by heritage and
a first generation, right,second, third, fourth.
They all have differentunderstandings of the world.
You know, my son is a secondgeneration American on my side
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and a little mixed on myhusband's side, and it's been
interesting because he doesn'talways recognize that he is or
he comes from right.
I got to tune to my languagesometimes too, that he comes
from Mexican heritage and hewill say like, well, I'm not
Mexican because I don't speakSpanish, and you know, trying to
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get him to understand, well,that doesn't.
That isn't what catarises thateither.
But it really helps to see thatwe decide the labels we choose
right.
And he's obviously only eightand understanding the world and
all of these different thingsand he doesn't necessarily
identify himself as beingMexican for the reasons he's
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made up on his own and I don'treally try to have too much
dialogue with him about itbecause he's still very little
and you know he may want toidentify as Mexican American
later or he may not, but that'sup to him.
And I want you to decide whatidentifiers feel good to you and
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you have an intention behindthem, because if you are not
taking ownership of any labelthat is placed on you or that
you place on yourself, you areallowing those vibrations to be
placed onto you, and what I meanby vibrations is everything has
a vibration.
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Last episode I just talkedabout was all about vibration.
Words have vibration, wordshave meaning and those meanings
have vibrations.
So if I label someone as beingdepressed, then that is a
vibration, and it's notnecessarily a high vibration
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either.
Someone's depressed, it's alower vibration.
If someone is happy, it's ahigher vibration.
If someone is in love, it's ahigher vibration.
If someone is in peace or haspeace, that's a higher vibration
.
This is why it's so importantthat you decide the labels for
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yourself.
So start identifying thegeneralizations that are keeping
you small, and these can bethings like well, people in my
community don't make over sixfigures, or I've never seen
anybody in my community orfamily own home, or my family is
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just always been bad with money, or we don't own cars.
We don't own things likewhatever generalization,
whatever family norm that youhave held on to.
It is time that you start tolet that go, because that is
placing a vibration on you andit is affecting how you are
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showing up and it's blockingwhat you are trying to manifest.
You know, if you are a personwho may not be as organized as
you would like and you just say,oh, I'm such a mass, I'm so
disorganized I never get thingsdone.
Those are all labels, those areall generalizations.
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You are creating your conceptof you and that affects you as a
manifestor, that keeps you frombeing a super manifestor.
And I know you want to be asupermanifuster.
I want to be a supermanifuster,I am a supermanifuster and I've
become one by letting go ofthese generalizations and
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understanding thatgeneralizations are needed.
Yes, we need to know how manyMexican-Americans live in the
United States.
Yes, I remember having thisconversation in class.
It was in my bilingualeducation master level course
that I was taking because at onepoint I wanted to be a
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bilingual teacher because Ispoke Spanish and I thought that
, as a Spanish speaker, I neededto give back to my community
and show up as a teacher.
Even though I don't know that Ihad any actual deep desire, I
think I had a desire to serve mycommunity and it seemed like
the right thing to do.
So I'm in this bilingualeducation class and this
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professor asked why do we haveto have identifiers?
And I assumed it was an opendialogue course.
Apparently, that was arhetorical question, but I
raised my hand and I saidbecause without labels we do not
know who is being marginalized.
And you shouldn't really sayanything after that and kind of
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just kept going in whatever wayher lesson plan was going.
And then I felt very smallbecause I raised my hand and I
didn't have that validation atthe time of her Like yeah,
that's a great response.
Again, another generalizationthat you need validation to know
that your response was a goodresponse.
But I had a classmate latertell me like don't worry, like
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she has her own issues, like you.
Probably she wasn't expectinganybody to answer and you
probably like threw her off orwhatever right.
And so labels are necessary.
They're necessary evil, justlike so many other things.
They're necessary to find outwho's being marginalized.
But aside from that, you needto know that you have the power
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in deciding what generalizationsyou allow to be placed on you,
what generalizations you acceptto be true and what
generalizations you need to letgo of because they are stopping
you from manifesting what youwant.
And another way to saygeneralizations is beliefs.
But generalizations and beliefsthat they're, while they're,
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similar, there are things thatgo beyond that right.
Like there are people on socialmedia that make generalizations
that people may not readilythink like, oh, that's just a
belief.
You know, if someone who hasinfluence says everybody that
was born in 1990 has thisgeneral mindset, right, whatever
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made up thing, you're going tobe like, oh yeah, that's
probably true, right, but it'sliterally a generalization.
Literally, it's that person'sbelief.
Everything that comes out ofsomeone's mouth, including this,
this whole episode, is a belief, right, and I'm making a
generalization aboutgeneralizations.
We have gone into a full circlehere.
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So, as I'm saying, to become asupermanifuster, start letting
go of generalizations, startletting go of labels that are
limiting you.
And if you want to keep labelsI'm not saying not to keep
labels either If there's a labelthat you feel empowered by,
like supermanifuster, I'mempowered by supermanifuster,
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I'm going to keep that label.
I'm a supermanifuster, you know, pick the labels that you feel
empowering, that are helping youmanifest the things you want,
that are helping you create thelife you want, keep those.
This episode is all aboutreleasing those generalizations
that are not helping you.
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And actually I'm gonna go oversome money generalizations just
to keep it simple and not goover everything.
But a generalization is thatmoney's the root of evil.
Money is money.
Money's not good, money is notbad Money just is People can use
money for good things.
People can use money for badthings.
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It is just money Doesn't matterwho's using it.
It is the person who's decidingon how they use it.
No, another generalization isthat there's not enough money to
go around.
Generalization there is plentyof money to go around, but if
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you believe that there's notplenty of money to go around,
then you won't manifest moremoney.
Another generalization can be Ishould be grateful.
Yes, gratitude is so important,but only if it's authentic
gratitude, meaning that it'scoming from the inside of you,
like this feeling of like I amso Grateful for my family, I am
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so grateful that I woke up today, I'm so grateful that I have
this time to do this.
But if you are just recitingaffirmations that don't align
with you, that's not helpful.
It actually is working againstyou, because while you are
saying I'm so grateful for myfamily and the first thought
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that came to your mind was like,I hate them.
That is blocking that wholeMomentum, that whole energy.
So Take some time to identifythose generalizations that are
Blocking you from having themanifestations that you want,
those labels that are make youfeel bad, that make you feel low
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vibration.
You know if you do have anymental health issues Diagnosed
or just you believe you doanxiety, depression you can
change those terms to say thatI'm currently depressing, I'm
currently anxious.
This removes the power ofsaying I have anxiety, I have
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depression.
The reason to use that, to usethe I am depressing or I am
feeling anxious, is Because itgives you the power to know that
it's temporary Versus a labelof a person who has depression.
So begin doing the work inregards to Deciding what labels
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are empowering you and whatlabels are not.
You can do this Over a coupleof days.
You can do it continuously.
This is something that you willcontinue to work, because
generalizations, like I said,are beliefs, but sometimes it's
easier to identify ageneralization than your own
belief.
So the other two things I wantto cover is you are creating
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your own manifesting journey.
So by identifyinggeneralizations that you do want
to partake in that you areactively choosing, such as I can
be a supermanifestor.
That's the generalization thatpeople can be a supermanifestor.
It's a belief.
If you want to take that on,then you can decide that this is
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your manifesting journey.
Maybe you're like I actuallydon't like the word
supermanifestor, I like superattractor?
I'm a super attractor or I'm adream weaver?
Start creating a label for yourmanifesting power, manifesting
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journey, so that way, when youare working to create and lift
your vibration, you know whenthat needs to be.
It makes it easier to know that, hey, currently I'm not at the
vibration that mysupermanifestor needs to be at.
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I'm not at the vibration of mySuper attractor self, my dream
weaver.
Whatever label, give yourself alabel.
I'd love to hear what you labelyour manifesting powers as.
Just know that you are creatingyour own manifesting journey.
You're creating your own life,and the way to do this is by
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letting go of generalizationsthat don't serve you and Start
pulling those that do.
Start pulling those labels thatare empowering you, identify
the ones that are not and do ajournal entry on them.
You know I definitely need to bejournaling on the whole
Hispanic and Mexican American.
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I mean and this is somethingthat have that has been within
me some for some time Like thishas been years and years and
years of me coming to terms.
That why I do not like thelabel.
I do not like the label ofMexican American because it
means that I'm not just American, and I know that might sound
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like, well, yeah, because we'rebetter, but and I mean like not
being a minority and notnecessarily being Mexican, but I
also see that Putting the andthis is just my belief, this is
just my generalization.
So it's important to bring meto also say that this is my
belief.
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If it doesn't jive with youwhich I've often said in many,
many different episodes Ifwhatever I say does not align
with you, doesn't feel right toyour intuition, then just you
know, throw it in the trash.
Not a big deal.
I'm here to help you figure outwhat works for you and what
doesn't.
That's the other thing I wantyou to get out of this episode.
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You decide what works for youand what doesn't.
There might be something Ishare on here in this episode or
a different episode that you'rejust like.
That doesn't really work for me, or I really don't like that,
and that's okay, because this isyour manifesting journey.
This is your journey tobecoming a super manifester.
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You are creating that pathRegardless of whatever else
you've heard from anyone else,from any other manifesting guru.
It's important for you to knowthat the power is within
yourself, not anybody else.
No one else can give you thepower to become a
supermanifestor, but yourself.
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And you start this by letting goof these beliefs, these
generalizations, these labelsthat keep you small.
So I'm going to touch back onthis whole Mexican American
label.
The only reason I don't like itis because it places us as
other, places me as not one,with the US as one that came
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from somewhere else, when inreality, like actually,
according to my DNA plus, mostMexican Americans and most
people from other countries inthe Americas are indigenous,
right, like I have like 60%indigenous blood.
What does that mean?
I'm from here, I'm from theAmericas, so why do I need to
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label myself as other?
Besides the marginalizationthing, okay, we need to know
that, and without that we justdon't know who's been
marginalized.
But let me not digress until youknow something that doesn't
matter, pertain to thisconversation.
It disempowers people.
To give people and I say people, but I mean minority to give
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minorities, to give women ofcolor labels.
It is saying other other thanwhat?
Well, we all know other thanwhite.
But it's important for you toknow where these labels are
coming from.
You can decide what meaningthey have.
I mean, this goes back to, youknow, non binary and binary and
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all of those things like theyare taking the power of labels
and deciding what they want tolabel themselves.
And I will say, for the longesttime I didn't understand it.
And not that I didn'tunderstand the part of the
labels, I just hadn't connectedthe dots of why someone would
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choose to be they and why theywould choose etc.
Right, not connecting the dots,that it's the same thing that I
personally hate labels, becauselabels shrink you, labels keep
you in a box, even the label ofbeing a mom.
It took me years and I've beena mom for a while now to really
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be okay with that label, and why?
Because I had a conceptualimage of what I believed that
meant about me as a person notwhat I became as a mom, but what
it meant about me.
I have this thing where you knowsome I, when me and my husband,
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are terrible about wearing ourwedding rings, but when I am
with my kids, and now that I amcurrently pregnant, I know that
it bothers me if I think thatpeople might perceive that I am
an unwed person.
That's pregnant, becausesometimes I forget to put on my
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ring.
I don't have my ring today, andI have been thinking about this
, which is something I need towork on and think about.
Why does it bother me?
Why do I care?
Why do I need people to knowthat I am married?
Or sometimes I'll be walkingaround doing my walks here in
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this middle class neighborhood.
I will say I live in a middleclass neighborhood and I will be
like I don't want these peopleto think that I'm just a
housewife.
I don't want these people tothink I'm just a kept woman.
Now again, why does that matter?
Because in my mind I feel likeit disempowers me.
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Because in my mind I have beentold society has put the belief
in my mind that if you arehousewife, you are second class
citizen.
If you are a person that ispregnant and unwed, you are a
second class citizen.
Right, they are negativeconnotations, negative
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generalizations that I havewithin me that I need a process
and I need to let go of.
And the other part is who careswhat anyone thinks?
And if somebody actually cameand told me something about
looking pregnant and unwed,there'd be explosives.
There would not be.
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That person would just not be.
Which is really funny because mypodcast editor said that last
episode was the first episodethat she had actually heard me
say a curse word, which wasn'treally that big of a curse word,
but I was like really, 109episodes, it took that long,
because when I get passionateabout something, I'm
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passionately angry.
I guess I should say, oh, therewill be curse words, but those
are generalizations and beliefsthat I have consumed, that
society has placed on me, thatare still present, that I don't
realize are even there until theinteraction happens, right
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Until I'm walking down thestreet minding my business, you
know, doing my thing, and thenthe idea pops into my head.
I was like, oh, I don't wantanybody to think that I have
somebody just taking care of me.
It doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter what peoplethink.
But here's the thing no onesaid it to me, I said it to me,
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I said it to me.
So that's why this matters,because I'm making the
generalization, I am makingthose statements.
These statements no one hassaid to me directly.
If someone said them along thelines you know, maybe I see
things.
Statistics definitely says alot of things as well.
But I'm the person who hasdecided that generalization is a
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statement that I am holding onto, still Statements that I need
to let go of, and always a workin progress, even though I am
already a superman and fuster,doesn't mean that I don't have
generalizations I don't need tolet go of, and we will let go of
them as soon as we begin torecognize them for what they are
.
So the first thing that I wantto do is to remember
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generalizations, labels arebeliefs, thoughts are beliefs,
even if they are based on fact.
So key things to remember.
You're creating your ownmanifesting journey.
You are creating it by yourgeneralizations, the labels you
put on yourself and your beliefs.
It's time for you to decidewhich of those generalizations,
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beliefs and labels you're readyto let go of, because they are
not helping you manifest yourdesires and are keeping you from
being a superman, fuster, adream lemur, a super attractor.
I think you guys have messagedme what you guys are going to
call yourselves I would love tohear it the admin at manifesting
with Norma and the other keythings to remember is that you
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decide what works for you.
You are creating yourmanifesting journey.
You are the special sauce inyour manifesting recipe Connect
with yourself, meditation, yoga,journaling.
You know those are the topthree.
Thank you for listening todayand remember that you are on
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your own manifesting journey andI want you to remember that you
are a superman, fuster.
Thank you for listening to themanifesting Latina podcast.
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Together, we'll dive into theart of manifestation, practical
(00:26):
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No more feeling stuck ordisconnected.
It's time to awaken your innermanifester, embrace your
spirituality and create a lifethat truly resonates with your
soul.
Tune in each week to theManifesting Latina Podcast and
(00:49):
begin to manifest your dreamlife.
Hey everyone, welcome back.
This is episode 110.
I have to think on that.
One 110.
And today is going to be aboutletting go of generalizations,
(01:09):
letting go of labels.
I absolutely hate labels andfor the longest time I avoided
kind of just taking ownership ofany labels.
Like I don't even like thelabel Mexican American.
I'm going to tell you why.
And really, like the wholelabel thing started with like
Hispanic, because Hispanic is amade up word that was done for
(01:35):
the US census and it reallydoesn't mean anything.
It has nothing to do.
It's like it doesn't even makesense.
The label doesn't cover everysingle person that it should,
because of whatever.
And I'm going to share withy'all why you need to let go of
generalization so that you canbecome the supermanifestor you
(02:00):
were meant to become.
Labels and generalizationslimit you.
If you are buying intogeneralizations such as I am
smart, or I am dumb, or I'm notgood at money, or you know so
and so is so much better atmoney than I am, or they are
(02:21):
just lucky, generalizations willhelp you stay small.
So take a moment to think aboutany generalizations that are
coming up as I'm talking and jotthem down.
Jot them down because those arethe first ones that you need to
work on letting go.
And generalizations come fromeverywhere.
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You know I'm not going to saythat I've probably haven't said
a generalization.
I probably have and I probablywill continue at some point, but
it's important to know whensomething is a generalization.
I get so triggered when I seesomebody making a generalization
in social media and this is whyI always say you know, you are
the person that knows yourselfbest and you can decide what
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works for you and what doesn'twork, and that's how you tune in
into your intuition and that ishow you become a
supermanifestor.
If you are allowing people'sgeneralizations and labels to
confine you, then you cannotbecome the supermanifestor that
you want to become.
It's really that simple, andyou know when's the last time
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you heard someone talking aboutthat?
I've never heard that myself.
I actually just started thinkingabout it on my walk because I
am doing more intentional,manifesting routines and more
manifesting daily habits.
And so it's the afternoon time.
I decided to go take a walk.
I decided not to tell myself,oh, it's already too late, I
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already have to go pick up myson.
I said, no, it's going to takeme no more than 10 minutes to go
do my little walk and justthink.
I don't listen to any musicduring this time, because it's
meant to be just a time to walk,move my body and see what comes
in.
And I saw something somewhere,and I saw a generalization.
(04:15):
And I'm like, oh my God, I haveto share about this.
And I was just going to do anInstagram story, but decided to
do an episode instead On theimportance of letting go of
generalizations and labels,because labels and
generalizations are limiting you, they are keeping you small,
and so this is why I started offwith I do not like the label
(04:38):
Mexican American.
I am very proud that I come fromMexican heritage, but when we
take labels such as MexicanAmerican, we are also calling
ourselves other.
Do you think white people callthemselves Anglo Americans or
white Americans or ItalianAmericans or Irish, whatever
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their heritage is?
No, they just say American andthey probably don't even say
American in reality.
We minorities have been taughtto buy into these labels and the
only reason is foridentification to be labeled as
other.
If someone asks you, what areyou?
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You're a human being.
You are not a label of somesort that catarises your race
and you can answer that questionhowever you want.
The next time someone asks you,what are you?
So this is why I do not likethe label of Mexican American.
There's nothing wrong.
I've used it before.
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I've called myself a MexicanAmerican.
I've put it into descriptions.
There's nothing wrong with thelabel, as long as you put the
intention behind the label.
I put it in things so thatpeople can know and identify
with my heritage, so that ifthey are interested in working
with a Latina who is MexicanAmerican and I also list first
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generation they know that Iunderstand the issues and
problems of someone who is aMexican American by heritage and
a first generation, right,second, third, fourth.
They all have differentunderstandings of the world.
You know, my son is a secondgeneration American on my side
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and a little mixed on myhusband's side, and it's been
interesting because he doesn'talways recognize that he is or
he comes from right.
I got to tune to my languagesometimes too, that he comes
from Mexican heritage and hewill say like, well, I'm not
Mexican because I don't speakSpanish, and you know, trying to
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get him to understand, well,that doesn't.
That isn't what catarises thateither.
But it really helps to see thatwe decide the labels we choose
right.
And he's obviously only eightand understanding the world and
all of these different thingsand he doesn't necessarily
identify himself as beingMexican for the reasons he's
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made up on his own and I don'treally try to have too much
dialogue with him about itbecause he's still very little
and you know he may want toidentify as Mexican American
later or he may not, but that'sup to him.
And I want you to decide whatidentifiers feel good to you and
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you have an intention behindthem, because if you are not
taking ownership of any labelthat is placed on you or that
you place on yourself, you areallowing those vibrations to be
placed onto you, and what I meanby vibrations is everything has
a vibration.
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Last episode I just talkedabout was all about vibration.
Words have vibration, wordshave meaning and those meanings
have vibrations.
So if I label someone as beingdepressed, then that is a
vibration, and it's notnecessarily a high vibration
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either.
Someone's depressed, it's alower vibration.
If someone is happy, it's ahigher vibration.
If someone is in love, it's ahigher vibration.
If someone is in peace or haspeace, that's a higher vibration
.
This is why it's so importantthat you decide the labels for
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yourself.
So start identifying thegeneralizations that are keeping
you small, and these can bethings like well, people in my
community don't make over sixfigures, or I've never seen
anybody in my community orfamily own home, or my family is
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just always been bad with money, or we don't own cars.
We don't own things likewhatever generalization,
whatever family norm that youhave held on to.
It is time that you start tolet that go, because that is
placing a vibration on you andit is affecting how you are
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showing up and it's blockingwhat you are trying to manifest.
You know, if you are a personwho may not be as organized as
you would like and you just say,oh, I'm such a mass, I'm so
disorganized I never get thingsdone.
Those are all labels, those areall generalizations.
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You are creating your conceptof you and that affects you as a
manifestor, that keeps you frombeing a super manifestor.
And I know you want to be asupermanifuster.
I want to be a supermanifuster,I am a supermanifuster and I've
become one by letting go ofthese generalizations and
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understanding thatgeneralizations are needed.
Yes, we need to know how manyMexican-Americans live in the
United States.
Yes, I remember having thisconversation in class.
It was in my bilingualeducation master level course
that I was taking because at onepoint I wanted to be a
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bilingual teacher because Ispoke Spanish and I thought that
, as a Spanish speaker, I neededto give back to my community
and show up as a teacher.
Even though I don't know that Ihad any actual deep desire, I
think I had a desire to serve mycommunity and it seemed like
the right thing to do.
So I'm in this bilingualeducation class and this
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professor asked why do we haveto have identifiers?
And I assumed it was an opendialogue course.
Apparently, that was arhetorical question, but I
raised my hand and I saidbecause without labels we do not
know who is being marginalized.
And you shouldn't really sayanything after that and kind of
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just kept going in whatever wayher lesson plan was going.
And then I felt very smallbecause I raised my hand and I
didn't have that validation atthe time of her Like yeah,
that's a great response.
Again, another generalizationthat you need validation to know
that your response was a goodresponse.
But I had a classmate latertell me like don't worry, like
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she has her own issues, like you.
Probably she wasn't expectinganybody to answer and you
probably like threw her off orwhatever right.
And so labels are necessary.
They're necessary evil, justlike so many other things.
They're necessary to find outwho's being marginalized.
But aside from that, you needto know that you have the power
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in deciding what generalizationsyou allow to be placed on you,
what generalizations you acceptto be true and what
generalizations you need to letgo of because they are stopping
you from manifesting what youwant.
And another way to saygeneralizations is beliefs.
But generalizations and beliefsthat they're, while they're,
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similar, there are things thatgo beyond that right.
Like there are people on socialmedia that make generalizations
that people may not readilythink like, oh, that's just a
belief.
You know, if someone who hasinfluence says everybody that
was born in 1990 has thisgeneral mindset, right, whatever
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made up thing, you're going tobe like, oh yeah, that's
probably true, right, but it'sliterally a generalization.
Literally, it's that person'sbelief.
Everything that comes out ofsomeone's mouth, including this,
this whole episode, is a belief, right, and I'm making a
generalization aboutgeneralizations.
We have gone into a full circlehere.
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So, as I'm saying, to become asupermanifuster, start letting
go of generalizations, startletting go of labels that are
limiting you.
And if you want to keep labelsI'm not saying not to keep
labels either If there's a labelthat you feel empowered by,
like supermanifuster, I'mempowered by supermanifuster,
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I'm going to keep that label.
I'm a supermanifuster, you know, pick the labels that you feel
empowering, that are helping youmanifest the things you want,
that are helping you create thelife you want, keep those.
This episode is all aboutreleasing those generalizations
that are not helping you.
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And actually I'm gonna go oversome money generalizations just
to keep it simple and not goover everything.
But a generalization is thatmoney's the root of evil.
Money is money.
Money's not good, money is notbad Money just is People can use
money for good things.
People can use money for badthings.
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It is just money Doesn't matterwho's using it.
It is the person who's decidingon how they use it.
No, another generalization isthat there's not enough money to
go around.
Generalization there is plentyof money to go around, but if
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you believe that there's notplenty of money to go around,
then you won't manifest moremoney.
Another generalization can be Ishould be grateful.
Yes, gratitude is so important,but only if it's authentic
gratitude, meaning that it'scoming from the inside of you,
like this feeling of like I amso Grateful for my family, I am
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so grateful that I woke up today, I'm so grateful that I have
this time to do this.
But if you are just recitingaffirmations that don't align
with you, that's not helpful.
It actually is working againstyou, because while you are
saying I'm so grateful for myfamily and the first thought
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that came to your mind was like,I hate them.
That is blocking that wholeMomentum, that whole energy.
So Take some time to identifythose generalizations that are
Blocking you from having themanifestations that you want,
those labels that are make youfeel bad, that make you feel low
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vibration.
You know if you do have anymental health issues Diagnosed
or just you believe you doanxiety, depression you can
change those terms to say thatI'm currently depressing, I'm
currently anxious.
This removes the power ofsaying I have anxiety, I have
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depression.
The reason to use that, to usethe I am depressing or I am
feeling anxious, is Because itgives you the power to know that
it's temporary Versus a labelof a person who has depression.
So begin doing the work inregards to Deciding what labels
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are empowering you and whatlabels are not.
You can do this Over a coupleof days.
You can do it continuously.
This is something that you willcontinue to work, because
generalizations, like I said,are beliefs, but sometimes it's
easier to identify ageneralization than your own
belief.
So the other two things I wantto cover is you are creating
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your own manifesting journey.
So by identifyinggeneralizations that you do want
to partake in that you areactively choosing, such as I can
be a supermanifestor.
That's the generalization thatpeople can be a supermanifestor.
It's a belief.
If you want to take that on,then you can decide that this is
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your manifesting journey.
Maybe you're like I actuallydon't like the word
supermanifestor, I like superattractor?
I'm a super attractor or I'm adream weaver?
Start creating a label for yourmanifesting power, manifesting
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journey, so that way, when youare working to create and lift
your vibration, you know whenthat needs to be.
It makes it easier to know that, hey, currently I'm not at the
vibration that mysupermanifestor needs to be at.
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I'm not at the vibration of mySuper attractor self, my dream
weaver.
Whatever label, give yourself alabel.
I'd love to hear what you labelyour manifesting powers as.
Just know that you are creatingyour own manifesting journey.
You're creating your own life,and the way to do this is by
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letting go of generalizationsthat don't serve you and Start
pulling those that do.
Start pulling those labels thatare empowering you, identify
the ones that are not and do ajournal entry on them.
You know I definitely need to bejournaling on the whole
Hispanic and Mexican American.
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I mean and this is somethingthat have that has been within
me some for some time Like thishas been years and years and
years of me coming to terms.
That why I do not like thelabel.
I do not like the label ofMexican American because it
means that I'm not just American, and I know that might sound
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like, well, yeah, because we'rebetter, but and I mean like not
being a minority and notnecessarily being Mexican, but I
also see that Putting the andthis is just my belief, this is
just my generalization.
So it's important to bring meto also say that this is my
belief.
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If it doesn't jive with youwhich I've often said in many,
many different episodes Ifwhatever I say does not align
with you, doesn't feel right toyour intuition, then just you
know, throw it in the trash.
Not a big deal.
I'm here to help you figure outwhat works for you and what
doesn't.
That's the other thing I wantyou to get out of this episode.
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You decide what works for youand what doesn't.
There might be something Ishare on here in this episode or
a different episode that you'rejust like.
That doesn't really work for me, or I really don't like that,
and that's okay, because this isyour manifesting journey.
This is your journey tobecoming a super manifester.
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You are creating that pathRegardless of whatever else
you've heard from anyone else,from any other manifesting guru.
It's important for you to knowthat the power is within
yourself, not anybody else.
No one else can give you thepower to become a
supermanifestor, but yourself.
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And you start this by letting goof these beliefs, these
generalizations, these labelsthat keep you small.
So I'm going to touch back onthis whole Mexican American
label.
The only reason I don't like itis because it places us as
other, places me as not one,with the US as one that came
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from somewhere else, when inreality, like actually,
according to my DNA plus, mostMexican Americans and most
people from other countries inthe Americas are indigenous,
right, like I have like 60%indigenous blood.
What does that mean?
I'm from here, I'm from theAmericas, so why do I need to
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label myself as other?
Besides the marginalizationthing, okay, we need to know
that, and without that we justdon't know who's been
marginalized.
But let me not digress until youknow something that doesn't
matter, pertain to thisconversation.
It disempowers people.
To give people and I say people, but I mean minority to give
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minorities, to give women ofcolor labels.
It is saying other other thanwhat?
Well, we all know other thanwhite.
But it's important for you toknow where these labels are
coming from.
You can decide what meaningthey have.
I mean, this goes back to, youknow, non binary and binary and
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all of those things like theyare taking the power of labels
and deciding what they want tolabel themselves.
And I will say, for the longesttime I didn't understand it.
And not that I didn'tunderstand the part of the
labels, I just hadn't connectedthe dots of why someone would
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choose to be they and why theywould choose etc.
Right, not connecting the dots,that it's the same thing that I
personally hate labels, becauselabels shrink you, labels keep
you in a box, even the label ofbeing a mom.
It took me years and I've beena mom for a while now to really
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be okay with that label, and why?
Because I had a conceptualimage of what I believed that
meant about me as a person notwhat I became as a mom, but what
it meant about me.
I have this thing where you knowsome I, when me and my husband,
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are terrible about wearing ourwedding rings, but when I am
with my kids, and now that I amcurrently pregnant, I know that
it bothers me if I think thatpeople might perceive that I am
an unwed person.
That's pregnant, becausesometimes I forget to put on my
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ring.
I don't have my ring today, andI have been thinking about this
, which is something I need towork on and think about.
Why does it bother me?
Why do I care?
Why do I need people to knowthat I am married?
Or sometimes I'll be walkingaround doing my walks here in
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this middle class neighborhood.
I will say I live in a middleclass neighborhood and I will be
like I don't want these peopleto think that I'm just a
housewife.
I don't want these people tothink I'm just a kept woman.
Now again, why does that matter?
Because in my mind I feel likeit disempowers me.
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Because in my mind I have beentold society has put the belief
in my mind that if you arehousewife, you are second class
citizen.
If you are a person that ispregnant and unwed, you are a
second class citizen.
Right, they are negativeconnotations, negative
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generalizations that I havewithin me that I need a process
and I need to let go of.
And the other part is who careswhat anyone thinks?
And if somebody actually cameand told me something about
looking pregnant and unwed,there'd be explosives.
There would not be.
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That person would just not be.
Which is really funny because mypodcast editor said that last
episode was the first episodethat she had actually heard me
say a curse word, which wasn'treally that big of a curse word,
but I was like really, 109episodes, it took that long,
because when I get passionateabout something, I'm
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passionately angry.
I guess I should say, oh, therewill be curse words, but those
are generalizations and beliefsthat I have consumed, that
society has placed on me, thatare still present, that I don't
realize are even there until theinteraction happens, right
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Until I'm walking down thestreet minding my business, you
know, doing my thing, and thenthe idea pops into my head.
I was like, oh, I don't wantanybody to think that I have
somebody just taking care of me.
It doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter what peoplethink.
But here's the thing no onesaid it to me, I said it to me,
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I said it to me.
So that's why this matters,because I'm making the
generalization, I am makingthose statements.
These statements no one hassaid to me directly.
If someone said them along thelines you know, maybe I see
things.
Statistics definitely says alot of things as well.
But I'm the person who hasdecided that generalization is a
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statement that I am holding onto, still Statements that I need
to let go of, and always a workin progress, even though I am
already a superman and fuster,doesn't mean that I don't have
generalizations I don't need tolet go of, and we will let go of
them as soon as we begin torecognize them for what they are
.
So the first thing that I wantto do is to remember
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generalizations, labels arebeliefs, thoughts are beliefs,
even if they are based on fact.
So key things to remember.
You're creating your ownmanifesting journey.
You are creating it by yourgeneralizations, the labels you
put on yourself and your beliefs.
It's time for you to decidewhich of those generalizations,
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beliefs and labels you're readyto let go of, because they are
not helping you manifest yourdesires and are keeping you from
being a superman, fuster, adream lemur, a super attractor.
I think you guys have messagedme what you guys are going to
call yourselves I would love tohear it the admin at manifesting
with Norma and the other keythings to remember is that you
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decide what works for you.
You are creating yourmanifesting journey.
You are the special sauce inyour manifesting recipe Connect
with yourself, meditation, yoga,journaling.
You know those are the topthree.
Thank you for listening todayand remember that you are on
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your own manifesting journey andI want you to remember that you
are a superman, fuster.
Thank you for listening to themanifesting Latina podcast.
Did you love today's episode?
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