Microdose Your Magic: Challenge Yourself

Day 5 of 30 of MICRODOSE YOUR MAGIC.

Episode Transcript

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Welcome to Day five of Microdsterer Magic. Happy Monday. We are off to
a fresh new week, and I'mfeeling the invitation of doing something challenging,
of bringing resistance and surrender together anddoing a hard thing or heart things.

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And I don't mean this in away where we have to push ourselves into
suffering. I do feel that sufferingis sometimes a really important part of our
journey, and it's a part ofthe journey that we can't avoid. Suffering
is an important part of the medicinethat is being a human. But I

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don't always feel that it's really neededwhen we do something that's hard or challenging.
So many of us, I think, connect doing something hard with suffering,
and so when we feel that way, it feels like we're abandoning ourselves
to do the hard thing. It'slike this really forceful, dysregulated experience.

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And so I want to maybe invitein this thought, this feeling or sensation
or experience of doing something hard,but instead of abandoning ourselves to do it,
it's actually an invitation to go deeperinto yourself to do it or to
accomplish it. And so we aremet with this challenge or we're met with

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this thing that feels difficult to do, and instead of having to leave ourselves
in order to actually do it,we find the path deeper into ourselves to
actually do it. And what wouldthat mean in real time? I don't
know, because the experience would beso different. But how could we invite

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that in So, for example,I I used to do cold dips every
day in the winter a couple ofyears ago, and there's been two winters
where I haven't done it at allbecause a part of me didn't feel like
that was the right like medicine forme, the right constitution for my body.
And I was really working on safetyand bringing safety into the body and

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I needed a break from I thinka lot of push because it felt like
suffering, and it felt like dysregulation, and it felt like leaving myself when
I had to lean in to thechallenge of going into the water or other
things of that nature. And sonow I've realized, Okay, how can

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I actually challenge myself and not leavemyself while I'm doing it? How can
I set up these experiences in mylife that are a little bit you know,
filled with resistance and still push throughit, but still experience it still
do it and not have to leavemy home, not have to leave my

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safety, not have to leave mycomfort of myself and still do it.
What would that mean? What wouldthat look like? What would that look
like? To view the challenges notas oh, my god, I have
to completely abandon myself to do this, and instead look at it like,
oh, I get to go closerdeeper into myself while I do this,

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And what are the challenges you reallywant to do or face. Some of
the challenges might be something mundane,like the paperwork that you've been avoiding,
or or looking at accounts that maybecause a bit of stress. Maybe the
challenge is something physical, like goinginto cold water or following a rhythm of
movement that typically would cause a lotof resistance. Maybe it's sitting with an

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emotion that feels really challenging. Maybeit's having a conversation with someone that feels
challenging. What is the challenge andhow could we invite in a deeper sense
of self connection rather than a deepenedfeeling of self abandonment through the challenge.

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And we need challenge as humans.It's one of the basic needs that we
need. We need to constantly beevolving. Things feel stagnant and slow and
slushy when we are not evolving,and we need challenge to evolve. We
need to peel back the layers.We need to peel and access these deeper
parts of us, and we cando that through challenge. We can do

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that through slowness. We can alsodo it through journeying. We can do
that through a ton of different things. But we also need challenge. We
need to feel like we are metwith resists and we can come deeper into
ourselves and still overcome the challenge havingthis sense of capability and acknowledgment. But

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the difference is when we abandon ourselves, facing the challenge feels awful, and
then it wouldn't make sense to continuefacing challenges. It would just make more
sense to keep things the way theyare. So if we can invite in
this opportunity to go deeper with ourselveswhen we are faced with challenges, maybe
facing challenges will feel a little bitbetter now. Challenge is a challenge for

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a reason. It's supposed to meetus with a bit of resistance. It's
meant to feel difficult. But there'sa difference between how we support ourselves through
that I love you, see youtomorrow,