September 11, 2024 • 55 mins
Air Date - 11 September 2024
We are the sum of our experiences! Join Inspired Living Host Marc Lainhart – The Intuitive Prospector™ this “Wisdom Wednesday” as Marc goes “Prospecting” deeper to discuss and share for turning our pain into purpose through the philosophy, wisdom, healing, and experiences of our spiritual awakening and journey. Once we become aware that we are energy and spiritual beings first choosing to incarnate to have a human experience, the divine, spiritual plans and guidance of our lives reveal themselves in their way, time, and perspectives that only we can understand from a first-hand maturity of L.I.F.E. – Learn It From Experience. Put another way, incarnation leads us to grow, growth leads us to learn, education leads us to knowledge, knowledge leads us to wisdom, and wisdom leads us to enlightenment and extension of our next “Soul Adventure!”
“What hurts us is what heals us.” – Paulo Coelho.
#PainIntoPurpose #Spirituality #InspiredLiving #MarcLainhart
Minister Marc Lainhart is an award-winning Psychic-Medium, Intuitive, Published Author, and Best American Psychics 2020 Psychic of the Year. Based in Seattle, Washington, Marc’s work as a writer, teacher, radio show host, inspirational thought leader, hiking guide, and certified healthcare provider is using his profound and tested perception to “Prospect” this mysterious, mystical, and magical world around us through several profound and monumental “Soul Adventures!” Marc is passionate about connecting, educating, guiding, helping, healing, inspiring, and teaching others from years of personal experiences and growth through loss, grief, trauma, death, and dying. While promoting balance, healing, peace, transformation, inspiration, and guidance to live again, explore and live life more fully, and assist those wanting to discover and reveal that beautiful and brilliant diamond within and the many hidden gems around us!
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We are the sum of our experiences! Join Inspired Living Host Marc Lainhart – The Intuitive Prospector™ this “Wisdom Wednesday” as Marc goes “Prospecting” deeper to discuss and share for turning our pain into purpose through the philosophy, wisdom, healing, and experiences of our spiritual awakening and journey. Once we become aware that we are energy and spiritual beings first choosing to incarnate to have a human experience, the divine, spiritual plans and guidance of our lives reveal themselves in their way, time, and perspectives that only we can understand from a first-hand maturity of L.I.F.E. – Learn It From Experience. Put another way, incarnation leads us to grow, growth leads us to learn, education leads us to knowledge, knowledge leads us to wisdom, and wisdom leads us to enlightenment and extension of our next “Soul Adventure!”
“What hurts us is what heals us.” – Paulo Coelho.
#PainIntoPurpose #Spirituality #InspiredLiving #MarcLainhart
Minister Marc Lainhart is an award-winning Psychic-Medium, Intuitive, Published Author, and Best American Psychics 2020 Psychic of the Year. Based in Seattle, Washington, Marc’s work as a writer, teacher, radio show host, inspirational thought leader, hiking guide, and certified healthcare provider is using his profound and tested perception to “Prospect” this mysterious, mystical, and magical world around us through several profound and monumental “Soul Adventures!” Marc is passionate about connecting, educating, guiding, helping, healing, inspiring, and teaching others from years of personal experiences and growth through loss, grief, trauma, death, and dying. While promoting balance, healing, peace, transformation, inspiration, and guidance to live again, explore and live life more fully, and assist those wanting to discover and reveal that beautiful and brilliant diamond within and the many hidden gems around us!
Visit the Inspired Living show page https://omtimes.com/iom/shows/inspired-living-radio/
Connect with Marc Lainhart at http://www.marclainhart.com/
Subscribe to our Newsletter https://omtimes.com/subscribe-omtimes-magazine
Connect with OMTimes on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Omtimes.Magazine/ and OMTimes Radio https://www.facebook.com/ConsciousRadiowebtv.OMTimes/
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Speaker 1 (00:16):
Welcome to Inspired Living with Mark Lainhart, the Intuitive Prospector.
Every Wednesday, Mark, along with his special guests, will explore
thought provoking topics and ideas that promote creativity, self help, healing, happiness,
and well being to inspire you on your spiritual journey.
Each week, Mark will discuss different paths to achieving a
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more spiritual, balanced, happy, and healthy lifestyle. Topics will elevate
consciousness and range from metaphysics, to the human and social
experience and all things spiritual. Welcome to an inspired community
that offers support, encouragement, and new ways of thinking. Mark
is a tested, certified and professional spiritual medium, metaphysical teacher, healer,
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and spiritual advisor with a spiritual practice based in Seattle, Washington.
You are the inspired and the inspiration.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Marcus us that we have the power over our mind,
not outside events.
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If we realize this, we will find strength.
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Good morning, good afternoon, and good evening wherever you may
be in this magical, magnanimous, magnificent, majestic, marvelous, metaphysical, miraculous,
mind awakening, mind.
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Boggling and mind blowing planet of ours.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
This is another episode of Inspired Living Radio where we
like to say you are the inspired in the inspiration.
So let's be inspired, let's inspire others, and let's inspire
before we expire.
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I am your host, Mark Lainehart, the.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Intuitive Prospect, here here with you yet again for what
I like to say, another soul adventure and an inspiring
episode to explore, discuss, and discover the many diamonds within
each and every one of us and the many gems
in our world that have yet to be revealed. So
get comfortable, grab your favorite drink, kick back, sit back,
or lie back, take in a nice, deep, healing, peaceful
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and cleansing breath, and let us prospect and learn together
as we're going to be discussing my latest article that
I had written, and it is how we take and
turn our pain into purpose, a journey of healing and transformation.
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And it is a journey.
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Is this journey that we are all on offers us
many pathways to life.
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To dream, to discover, explore and experience through our body,
our mind and spirit.
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And we're just looking to have another uplifting, inspiring, educational
episode of how we turn our pain into purpose. As always,
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to say before each show, a new day, a new opportunity,
a day we've not seen before, to use our intuition
to prospect this wonderful.
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World around us. Are we ready to go prospecting? I
know that I am.
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So.
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Today is a day of remembrance.
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Today is September eleventh, also known as nine to eleven,
and I want to dedicate this show and just take
a moment of silence to remember all of those who
were impacted by the horrible events so many years ago,
from nine to eleven. As we like to say, never forget.
And I also want to just take this moment of
silence for all of the victims, all of our first responders,
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both human and fur babies that were a part of
that rescue operation, and of course the families that still
endure the pain to this very day. So if you
join me in thought, in prayer and great loving intentions,
let's just take a moment of silence to honor those
on this very special, sacred, yet sad day. And so
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it is, so for today's episode, I'm going to share
a personal journey with you, my own personal journey of
the last few months of life changing events that endured
a lot of pain, and I wrote this article and
you can get this article at markleineheart dot com under
the featured articles, and the title of it is turning
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Pain into Purpose, a journey of healing and transformation, and
I thought it would be nice to turn this into
an episode to share with you, you know, the pain
that not only I have gone through with this life
changing back surgery that I had that literally changed my
career path. As of today, I'm officially retired. I got
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my notice this morning, so it's a sad day, but
it's yet a celebration day of being retired after twenty
three years of federal.
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Service and this surgery.
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Really, as I wrote this article, it was based on
the journey of my own perception and the reflection of
how I didn't let this pain defeat me. And I'm
sure a lot of you listening to this show past episodes,
you know that I like to share the journey or
what I call sol adventures and how we can take
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something that is, you know, maybe thought to be negative
and turn that into a positive, turn it into you know,
information and content that we can use to grow.
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Our spiritual journey.
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I were here, you know, it is a journey of
the mind, the body, and the spirit. And you know,
we learned that over our journey we are we become
the sum of our experiences. And this journey for me,
I had the surgery back in April, so I guess
it's about five months now post surgery. You know, I
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thought that I would share this story with you and
then take you on a nice meditation after our break,
we'll come back and I'm going to take you on
a nice meditative journey to recap and to go through
the things that I'm talking about in this latest article
that I've published, and to take you up to the
forest somewhere.
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I just came back from.
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I just spent several days up in the Olympic Rainforest here,
which is north of Seattle, Washington here in Washington State.
For those of you that follow the Twilight movies, The
Vampires in the Werewolves, it was up in that area.
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It's called the Whole Rainforest.
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And I spent a lot of time up there connecting
to nature, connecting and reflecting, rejuvenating, reviving with nature.
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And I like to break the word down.
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If you look at the word forest, if we break
it in half, it literally says for rest and it's
with the connection to nature that we can really start
to understand our journey of here being an incarnate being
with a density of a physical flesh suit. But what
happens is Nature also reveals to us that there's more
than just this physical flesh suit.
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We have a consciousness.
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We can awaken to our consciousness, to our spiritualism, to
who we are, our purpose.
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And our passion.
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And we also know that part of this journey, with
the joy and the pleasures, comes the pain and the
balance of what life is for us as physical beings.
We know that pain is an inventable part of our
human experience, but how we respond to it can profoundly
shape our lives. And when this journey was beset before
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me back in April that I would have to have
this surgery, there was really no way around it, and
I probably should have had it three years.
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Previous, but it really had to prepare.
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My mind to deal with such an extension of such
a very serious surgery. And I've, you know, the only
other surgery I think I ever had in my life
up to these this point in my journey was having
a broken nose repaired and a broken leg when I
was really really small, which I don't remember, but this
one when you start working on the spine. You know,
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the spine from a physical standpoint impacts us, you know, from.
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Our ability to walk, ability to sit.
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But it also for me, it was more of a
deeper look at the spiritual pathways of the energy that
flows from the crown chakra at the top of the head,
that flows down through the spine, through the thirty three
vertebrates down to the tips of our toes to ground.
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And I thought, wow, I'm going to really get not
only am I going to get fixed and.
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Have a better back, but I'm going to get my
spiritual pathways, you know, where the energy goes down those nerves,
where the energy the prawna the breath, you know, as
a medium working with what's unseen, I was getting that improved.
So I was, you know, described it as an old
rickety bridge, it's getting short up to be like new.
And I feel like, not only did it help me physically,
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but it helped me mentally, emotionally and of course spiritually.
And you know, if if we really approach something like this,
what I really started to do was is this happening
to me or is this happening for me. So right here,
I'm gonna pause, and I want you to visually, if
you're listening, stand up, maybe look into a mirror and
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put your hands on your hip, you know, like the
superheroes do, and just stand in your power, and you decide,
and you are going to focus on the pain and
either be a victim of life or you can accept
the pain and be the owner of it.
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And that's what I decided to do.
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I really my mantra going into this, with this complete change,
you know, with the surgery, was to really stand up
and say, this is happening for me. And there's gifts
that have been delivered along the way because of this surgery,
including my announcement of being.
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Retired as of today.
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I just got the notification this morning, and you know,
it's been a journey, but I was not going to
be the victim of this pain. And so for today's episode,
I'm going to guide you through how we can take
our pain and we can turn our pain into purpose.
But it's going to be a journey of healing and
transformation and of course, patients, because this journey doesn't just
happen in one day.
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In a twenty four hour span.
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We've learned that many individuals worldwide and throughout history have
discovered that suffering can catalyze personal growth. It can you
provide healing, strength, and of course transformation. Think of the
caterpillar through this extreme struggle of the cocoon emerging as
a beautiful butterfly with a new perspective. So by reframing
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pain as an opportunity for purpose, we can find meaning
in our struggles and we can use them to fuel
our passions. And there's a quote that I have put
in the article from Guru Pathique and he said this quote,
the greatest illusion of this world is the illusion of separation.
Things you think are separate and different are actually one
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and in the same end quote. So, while pain is
a universal experience for everyone, everyone who has ever lived
has experienced some sort of pain, whether it's physical, emotional, mental, spiritual,
its impact will always vary from.
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Person to person, because that is what life is.
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Life is subjective based on your perspective. But by embracing
our suffering and transforming it into purpose, we can create
meaningful change in our lives, the lives of others, and
this amazing world that we all share together. This transformation
journey that I'm writing about in this article.
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Though challenging, and.
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I will say it has been challenging, it holds the
potential for profound personal grith, growth and fulfillment.
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Ultimately, our pain can become a powerful.
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Narrative that defines our purpose and it inspires those around us.
A big part of why I started this podcast over
eight seasons ago, why I started the Intuitive prospect Or
consulting business was not to get more likes on social media.
I really enjoy the content that I create. I enjoy
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helping others. I have always been in service, going all
the way back from the first time I served our
country in the US Coast Guard, transferred out of there
to serve my local community as a firefighter EMT first responder,
then moved into the federal government working for our veterans
through the Veterans Administration, and now that that journey has
officially come to an end with retirement. Now I can
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focus really a lot of my time, not just to
my shows, whether you follow me on YouTube Metaphysical meet
Up with Mark, which is live, my live interactive shows
through Facebook Live and YouTube, the articles that you may
read or follow and inspired living I really enjoy creating
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the content, and I enjoy how it makes me feel
when I create that, And if it serves a purpose
now today, in the present moment, or perhaps it serves
a purpose down the road in a year, two years,
ten years, fifty years, that's really why I have loved
doing this work, and of course being on the radio
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and doing podcasts, I get to connect with so many
amazing people.
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I get to interview and hear their stories.
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And we have more guests coming up in the months
ahead for Inspired Living. So I hope that you'll continue
to join us here on Wednesdays through Home Times Media
at twelve pm Pacific three pm Eastern, because we do
have more content to share. We have more inspiration and
storytelling to share.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
With all of you.
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And again, if you miss the live episode, you can
always catch us wherever you get your favorite podcasting or
whatever platform you listen to for your favorite podcast, because
we're streaming through most of those now. But again, while
pain is universal experience for everyone who has ever lived,
it's always going to unpact us from.
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Person to person.
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So I just want you to, you know, offer yourself
grace as you listen today's show.
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Be patient, with yourself.
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You're right where you need to be and all you
have is right now the present moment. But if we
start to embrace versus that victim mentality of what pain
can do to us, because life has kicked us all
in the gut sometimes, you know, several times. But as
I always remind myself, as the Japanese proverb reminds us,
get knocked down seven, stand up eight. And when you
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stand up, you put those hands on your hip and
you have that superhero pose and you stand up to life.
And again, the transformation, the journey no challenging. It holds
the potential for profound personal growth and fulfillment.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
So let's talk about understand andy pain.
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Let's have that what I talked about reframing how we
look at our things. As you know, doctor Wayne Dyer
reminded us when he was here on the planet. He
always said, if you change the way you look at things,
the things you look at start to change.
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And so today's episode, hopefully we can help you do that.
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And then we'll do also a meditation through the forest
after the break to give you that visualization, to give
you that connection, to give you that feeling that you
are alive, and it's because you are alive that you
feel the pain, you feel the pleasures, and that is
the balance of our journey. So as we start understanding pain,
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pain can manifest, like I said, both physically, emotionally, psychologically,
and it comes.
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In spiritual forms.
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It often serves as a signal that something is wrong,
prompting us to take action.
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Now, it can prompt us to take action.
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But I always remind folks that we also have a
thing called choice and free will. Just because we're prompted
to take action doesn't mean that we are going.
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To take action.
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While it can be deliberating, pain has the potential to
teach us valuable lessons about resilience, about compassion, about empathy
and the human condition. We should accept our feelings and
experiences without judgment and or opinion. A lot of times,
if we go into that place of judgment or opinion,
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that's your que right there, that the ego has kicked in,
because that's what the ego is meant to do. In
this physical world that can be very fast paced, very chaotic,
very tragic. As as we're talking about this on nine
to eleven, a very tragic, sad day that still resonates
in ripples to this very day, even though it's been
twenty plus years since this event unfolded.
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And so if we start to understand pain, we.
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Should accept our feelings and experiences without judgment and or opinion.
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And when you do, you start to name your ego.
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I always remind people the best way to understand the
ego versus the human condition is name your ego. When
you come to my development group or my students, I
teach them the first thing is what's a person, place,
or thing that you just don't like or resonate with?
To name that, and that becomes your ego's name. Because
you are a energetic, spiritual being having a human experience,
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and in the human experience, you have to have ego
to survive in today's world. But it doesn't mean you
have to follow everything the ego tells you. You don't
have to listen all the time to what the ego
tells us. So I named my ego ego or back
from the old movies of egor coming up to you.
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Know, master or show you to do this.
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It's like, no, I don't need you right now, Egor.
I need to connect to who I am in my
higher self. So when we understand pain, we're understanding that
our brain and our heart. Pain is the first toward acceptance, healing,
and transformation. Eckhart totally teaches us awareness is the greatest
agent for change, and when you become aware and understanding pain,
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then that helps you find your purpose, which leads me
to my next topic, finding our purpose. How we channel energy.
We use the energy from our pain to fuel our
passions and discover a new purpose in life. So today
I can sit here not just talking to talk, but
walking the walk. I'm living a completely different journey now
from what I was just just a year ago, even
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even five months ago, since having this very life changing
medical procedure that needed to take place. But I'm channeling
that energy of that pain and that discomfort and the
you know, the healing of my incisions, and the mental
aspect of not being able to do what I used
to do.
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But I'm channeling that energy down from my crown.
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Chakra, through my spine, through the pineal glound, down to
the tips of my feet, and down back.
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To Mother Earth.
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So you can channel your energy to find your purpose,
you know, if you know, whether it's through art, arrieting,
dancing plant, medicine, meditation, yoga, hiking, volunteering, advocacy. Channeling our
feelings into a creative outlet. Outlet can bring us a
sense of purpose. Healing and transformation. Transforming pain into purpose
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often involves setting new goals. These can be related to
your personal development, career aspirations, or having a social impact.
That's really where my focus was when I started setting
these intentions of channeling energy was how can I have
a more broader social impact through my shows, through this podcast,
through my articles, through my clients and my consulting to
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help people deal with their trauma, deal with their grief,
you know, have that rehabilitation, move into that healing, and
have that transformation. And what that does is reset attainable goals.
It can give us a sense of purpose. Practicing self
compassion This is another one in the article that I've
talked about that's so very important. We have compassion many times,
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especially if you're sensitive or an impact. We're really good
as you know, I think of the I think in
the medical industry because that's what I was in for
many many years as a you know, first as a firefighter,
EMT first responder, and then moved into healthcare provider here
in local Seattle hospital and then working for the via hospitals.
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You know we have.
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We're really good as impath and sensitives of taking care
of other people doctors, nurses, first responders, but we're really
poor and really bad of taking care of ourself. So
I incorporated to practice self compassion into this article today
for the show is be kind to yourself during this
change process. Give yourself patience, give yourself time, give yourself grace,
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understanding that healing takes time, and then it's okay to
feel vulnerable.
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Life is not a sprint, my friends, but a marathon.
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And as mister Mark Twain reminds us, quote, do not
regret growing older. It is a privileged diet denied to
many end quote. So embracing self compassion is a crucial
part of this journey. It allows us to navigate the
challenges with grace and a positive mindset. And the best
way to move into that practicing self compassion after you've
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named your ego, ask your ego to step outside and
really just feel at the human conscious level, at the
raw incarnate density, physical fleshoot of that compassion for yourself,
and you can still always offer compassion and kindness and
empathy to those around you, your family or friends, your
for babies, your colleagues, and of course are a very
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crazy world. Embracing change and engage in devotional mindfulness, understanding
that our journey will evolve as redo and as life does.
Stay open and flexible to new passions, inspirations and purposes
that may arise as we are going through this healing process,
and take in our pain and turning it into purpose practices.
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Like I said, meditation. I use chigong every morning, which
is the mother of tai chi. It's using your life
force energy.
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Breath work. Breath work is so very, very powerful.
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Two breathworks that I actually recommend and I've used myself
in my spiritual healing of transformation is soma breathwork.
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So Soma you can look that up.
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And of course when you emerge yourself into a cold
plunge environment, whim Hof breathwork is very powerful and very
healing from not only just the mind, but for the
physical body. When you put yourself in, you know, dip
down into a cold pool at fifty one degrees.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
I go out here.
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I lived just a few blocks from the Puget Sound
area here in Seattle, So I can go down and
actually do a cold plunge in the Puget Sound, which
is about fifty one degrees fahrenheit for three to five minutes.
And boy, let me tell you that breath work helps
me get through that, you know, thirty seconds to a
minute pain of I'm going to die, I'm in cold water.
But breath work can really be very helpful to embrace
change and engage in devotional mindfulness.
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Mindfulness.
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So again, working on these different modalities, it helps us
stay also in the present moment. Yoga's good, pilate's good, exercise,
getting out into the four Like I said, just taking
off your.
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Shoes and walking forest, bathing on bare grass.
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It can help us stay not only in the present
moment while reducing anxiety, depression and stress related to pass
pain and the fast change is taking place right now
in the material world. We soon learned that the only
constant in life is that of change. So if we
work to keep up with the waves of change versus
being underneath them, those waves are going to feel as
heavy when they.
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Come crashing down.
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Celebrate small winds and stay committed acknowledge progress no matter
how small it is.
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Celebrating our achievements.
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Can enhance our motivation, It can enhance our healing, It
can enhance our energy and our transformations, and it can
also reinforce our sense of purpose. Turning our pain into
passion is a journey, not a destination. Stay committed to
your growth, Be patient and allow that grace and self
compassion I just talked about to flow daily in and
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out of your life. Each small step forward is a
reason to to celebrate and a reminder of our resilience
and our strength to heal and to take that pain
and turn it into purpose.
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Reflection.
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Take time to reflect on our pain, take the time
to disconnect, to make the time to reconnect. It will
help give us perspective on the pain through reflection, acceptance,
and surrender to the power of purpose. What specific life
experiences have shaped us? Like I said at the beginning,
to show we are the sum of our experiences, better said,
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we are the sum of our life experiences and the lessons.
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We have learned all along the way.
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Journaling can be helpful for life's toolbox in this process,
as it provides a record of growth and transformation from
our past, also our present moment and what we want
to mark down for our future, the goals that we
hope to attain in the future. Journaling can also help
us articulate our feelings at that moment, and it's a
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great way to go back and be able to read
what you're feeling in that moment of the pain and
what helps you get through that. Write about the pain,
it's meaning and how it has affected your life.
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So when we come back.
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From our break, we're going to pick up a few
more bullet points, and then I'm going to lead you
on a nice meditation as we walk through the forest
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is you can get at marklineheart dot com if you
want to read more about it. Is Turning Pain into Purpose,
a journey of healing and transformation and really just a
journey of how I approach pain and how I take
that pain and move it from pain into purpose and
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so some of the things as we get ready for
this nice meditation, as I'm going to take you through
the for us and walk through and you're going to
hear my voice from time to time coming up with
some of the bullet points that I've been listening out.
But let's kind of just recap so you can get
ready for this meditation of you know, we talked about
you know that pain is universal experience for everyone who
has ever lived, and it's going to its impact is
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always going to vary from person to person. But we
have you know that the bullet point of understanding pain,
we have the bullet point of finding our purpose.
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And channelling life's energies.
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We have practicing self compassion for ourselves and not regretting
grown older because it is a privilege denied to many.
I can definitely speak to that embracing change and engage
in a devotional mindfulness every single day in the present moment,
because today is all you have, celebrating along the way
those small wins and achievements that we are no matter
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how small, as long as you're staying committed to the
process of taking that pain and moving into purpose. It
leads us into the last topic that the bullet point
that I was talking about right before the break was reflection,
and that reflection is take that time. And this is
something that I first started when I was in you know,
my spiritual awakening, spiritual journey and extreme grief. And what
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I today write about is the TNT, the trauma and
the tragedy that blew up my life was you know,
take that time to disconnect, to make that time to reconnect.
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Whatever it is for you and your journey. For me,
my religion is nature.
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That is when people say are you religious, I say no,
but my religion is nature. I'm very spiritual, but I'm
my connection is to that of nature. That's why I
can do all the above that I've just talked about
in this article. The last few bullet points is connecting
with others sharing our experiences, and I did this weekend.
I went to a beautiful ceremony out in the rainforest
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and was able to connect with others sharing my pain,
sharing my experiences. But if we share our experiences, we
can foster connection in a deeper understanding that you're not
the only person going through pain, that everybody has some
degree of pain, whether physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual. Support groups, forums,
conversations with family, friends, and yes, even our fur babies
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can provide a sense of community, connection and validation.
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As read what I.
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Like to say, quote unquote prospect through our pain, connecting
with others who have experienced similar pain can be very,
very empowering.
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So maybe considering join a support group or an online community.
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We have the technology today to connect throughout the world.
We have the ability to use our technology to connect
with others.
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And as I was writing this article, I wanted to look.
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At some people that were challenged, but we know them
in our reality today. You are going to know some
of these figures they're going to talk about here in
just a few seconds. But it was like, how did
they endure? How did they get through everything that they
got through? And so many influential figures have turned their
pain into purpose. First one that came to my mind
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was missing Oprah Winfrey. Whether you like her or don't
like her, that's not the point. She overcame traumatic childhood
to become a leading voice and not only self improvement
but also empowerment.
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Similarly, Miss JK.
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Rolin, who faced numerous rejections before publishing the Harry Potter series,
which now has inspired man's of people around the globe,
has made lots and lots of money in its movies,
and even has a theme park in Florida for the
Harry Potter fans out there. Mister Nick Vudachik, he was born,
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literally born without arms and legs, but he didn't hold back.
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He did not be the.
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Victim of that pain. So just take a second to
imagine having no arms, no legs. But yet he overcame
these immense challenges and he's now a motivational speaker and
the author known to many around the globe for his purpose,
his inspiration, and his tenacity, whether it's scuba diving, whether
it's jumping out.
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Of an airplane. Again no arms, no legs.
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And I also thought about, you know, my hero and
I just want to give her a shout out is
my one of my nieces, Sarah Lainhart, and she was
born into this world with severe cerebro polesy. She's always
been my hero, always will be my hero for the
fact that what she's endured over two hundred surgeries, and
here I'm complaining about my one surgery. She's had over
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two hundred surgeries in her lifetime. She's in her thirties now,
and she has never walked. She's never enjoyed because if
you know Criba Polesy, it's equivalent to having one hundred
times the gravity that you and I feel on a
normal day to day basis the things that I take
for granted, She's never maybe even experienced in her life,
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and so you know that's somebody. But yet she still
puts a smile on her face every time I see
her and spend time with her. She always just shows
so much love, smiles, she can communicate through her keyboard
of her wheelchair.
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But she is my biggest hero in life. So I
just I love you, Sarah, and just a big cheof
out to you. But again we come back to the
power of reframing.
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Reframing is a psychological technique that involves changing how we
perceive a situation. Again, instead of viewing pain as a
negative experience, start to view it as reframing that it's
gonna be there. It's there no matter what for everybody,
and we can see it as a stepping stone towards
something bigger, a stepping stone towards growth. This shift in
perspective allows us to extract the valuable insights from our
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suffering which can inform our future choices and our actions.
And I said this earlier again, Doctor Wayne Dyer reminds
us of you change the way you look at things.
The things you look at can change, just like it
did for Oprah, just like it did for jk Rawlins,
just like it did for mister Nick Vudachik. Another person
that came to mind was mister Tony Robbins, who grew
up in a very unstable household. He faced years of
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financial struggles and personal challenges, but something.
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Inside him didn't give up.
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He didn't give in, and he turns his negative experiences
into a career and purpose as a motivational speaker and
a life coach who has helped millions achieve personal and
financial freedoms. Again, if you may like these people, you
may not like these people. That's free will and choice,
and that's your perspective. But these are real world people
who are in our culture and our society, whose stories
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should inspire you, should influence you to never give up,
never give in Always Keep Going, and last, but not least,
one of my favorites, Miss Brene Brown, known as a
researcher and our author and the work of vulnerability and shame,
which we have a lot in our world. She shared
her struggles and pain through her very popular ted talks
and books to inspire others to embrace their imperfections and
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live authentically with purpose. She is one of the first
books I read when I was trying to find who
I am, to find my authenticity? Who is the intuitive
prospector who is Mark Leinhart? Their stories remind us that
pain can be the precursor to extraordinary achievements, purpose, healing,
and transformations that can change not only are our lives,
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but the lives of others. Daniel Defoe reminds us quote
the soul is placed in the body like a rough
diamond and must be polished or the luster of it
will never appear. So, my friends, inspired listeners catching this episode,
either today or in the future, please keep going, living
and prospecting daily for that diamond deep within the soul
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and the many beautiful gems of healing, inspiration, encouragement, motivation
and transformations that our world will reveal in due time.
It is now time to turn that pain into purpose.
And as the old adage goes, what doesn't kill us
only makes us stronger. We got this, we can do
it together, and together we can turn that pain into purpose.
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So consider sharing those painful experiences, like I said, with
others who can relate and listen, such as trained experts, counselors, mentors,
or life coaches, which I have had all the above.
This can be very therapeutic and healing and inspire those
going through similar struggles and the pain that you may
be experiencing. But by actively engaging in these practices that
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I've talked with you today, we can transform our pain
into meaningful purpose that enriches our lives.
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And the lives of others.
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And as I opened up the show with Marcus Surrealis,
we'll close this article and get ready for our meditation.
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Quote.
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You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize
this and you will find your strength end quote. So
I would like to have you joined me as we're
going to take a walk through the forest and this
nice meditation. So take a nice deep breath in, become
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present to the moments of your life, and let us
take this journey of transforming pain into purpose, a journey
of healing and transformation. How do you find purpose in
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your pain? The road will look different for each of us,
but the framework can be a guide.
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I'm not quite sure how to help you reform for
the pain.
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Speak its name, whether it's an illness, an injury, a surgery,
a bad breakup, a loss of.
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A loved one.
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Speak its name, whether traumatic physical or mental abuse, abandonment, divorce,
a psychological condition.
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Speak its name.
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And as we're walking through the forest, taking in the sounds,
the smells, the sights, in your mind lists some of
the lessons.
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And by putting a name to this lesson the awareness
of our pain.
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By speaking its name, saying out loud, listening to our lessons,
it can help bring us into the present moment and
allow that pain to move through us and not stay
within us. And as we're walking along this beautiful journey
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of life, let's get.
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Clear on what we want from this life and why.
Let's define the why. What does our self growth blueprint?
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Where do I want to channel my energy? When and
where do.
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I feel most excited in my life?
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What fills your cup? What are some of your core values?
How do you define them?
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And as we're walking along, ask yourself those questions, where
do I want to channel my energy? My focus determines
my reality. What are some of the best moments in
my life? Taking that pain and focusing on what is pleasure?
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Taking those hard earned lessons, the life lessons that we've
all endured, and turning them into triumphs.
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How can I move my pain towards purpose?
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How can these lessons that I've endured aid in transforming
my life? Think through ways in which you are uniquely
suited to attend this mission of life, the life lessons
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that we've learned all along the way, and to be
in line with you and your higher self.
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Buddha reminds us to let go. There are certain parts
of the pain that won't ever be positive.
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Whatever you experienced, but awareness, acceptance, letting it move through you,
and letting go is a way to transform pain into purpose.
Turn in our pain and the purpose as a process
of overcoming barriers and limits that your pain, our pain,
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this world's pain, may impose.
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Than emotionally digesting.
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The experience and choosing to do something with the emotional
outcome that feels helpful, uplifting, inspiring, and gratifying. This is
less about finding positive or positive spin from the trauma,
from the grief, from the loss that you may be feeling,
and more about building resilience from the experience. I mean
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we gain that resilience from the experience by understanding what
pain is. Pain can manifest in physical, emotional, psychological, and
spiritual forms, but understanding our brain and heart pain is
the first step towards acceptance, healing and true transformation.
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Finding our purpose.
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Channel that energy that I talked about earlier, and as
we're walking through on this meditative journey through the forest
or for rest, the energy from our pain can fuel
our passions and help us discover new purposes in life,
whether through arts, writing, dancing, plat medicines, meditation, yoga, hiking, volunteering,
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or advocacy. Channeling our feelings into creative outlets can bring
a sense of purpose, healing, and transformation. And now we
want to practice self compassion along this journey, knowing that
we need to embrace change and engage in a devotional,
mindful practice to be in the present moment. And maybe
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along this pathway of this meditation, you've forgotten to take that.
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Deep breath in.
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So as we're walking, take another nice, deep, cleansing healing breath, breathing.
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In what you want.
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And through the exhalation, letting go what no longer serves you,
including the pain that you may have experienced. And this
is us practicing self compression as reconnect to the greatest
teacher of healing, Mother Nature, Mother Earth. Now finding ourselves
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in the middle of this beautiful, awakening, healing, spiritual forest,
knowing that life is always going to be changing for us,
and we can embrace that change and engage in that
devotional mindfulness, understanding that our journey will evolve as we
do and as life does. Maybe you want to stand
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or perhaps sit on a nice wood bench to your
right and celebrate the small wins and whether you're starting
this commitment or you've been on this journey, to stay
committed acknowledge progress no matter how small. Celebrating achievements can
enhance our motivation, healing and transformations, and reinforce our sense
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of purpose. Turning our pain into passion is a journey,
not a destination. Stay committed growth, be patient, and allow
the grace and self compassion to flow daily. Each small
step forward is a reason to celebrate and a reminder
of our resilience and our strength. And as we moved
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to reflection, whether you're now standing and or sitting, take
that time to reflect on your pain, take that time
to disconnect, to make that time to reconnect, taking a nice, deep, healing,
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cleansing breath again, breathing in what you want, excelling what
you don't. We are the psalm of all of our
life experiences and the lessons we have learned along this.
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Way, and through the power of breath, through the power
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of attunement and awareness, through the power of reframingle is
use that.
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Framing technique that involves change how we perceive a situation.
Now in the in the middle of this beautiful spiritual
awakening forest full of love, hope, grace, knowledge, wisdom, and peace,
let us view our pain.
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Instead of a negative experience.
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Let us step on this pain as a stepping stone
towards growth. Let us use this stepping stone towards something
bigger than ourselves and allowing this shift and perspective to
extract valuable insights from our suffering, which can inform our
future choices and our actions. Remembering that we're not alone
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on this journey. We have those in the physical world,
and of course those in the spiritual world that only
ever thought way that can share in our experiences and
can foster connection and understanding. Maybe making a commitment to
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join a group of former or conversation with family, friends,
and yes, even our fur babies can provide a sense
of community connection as we prospect through this pain, or
as I like to say, unity through community connected with
others who have experienced similar pain can be empowering. And
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I hope that you connect not only with yourself and
your higher self, but those that can help share in
the pain that we've all experienced in life. And now,
as we proceed to walk on and the end of
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this meditation, or we stand up from that nice what
a bench that supported us during this connection, we start
to walk out of the forest of hope, of knowledge,
of grace and wisdom, of peace, and of course of healing,
realizing that we can take that pain as a stepping
stone to something bigger, healthier, and better than what we
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previous were before this meditation.
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Taking another nice, deep healing.
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Breath now as relieve the forest, Please keep going, please
keep living, and please keep prospecting daily for that diamond
that is deep within your soul and the many beautiful
gems of healing, inspiration, encouragement, motivation, and transformation our world
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will reveal in due time. Now trust is leaving us,
and we are now back to where we began to
the sound of my voice, connecting together today.
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With unity through community.
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Taking another nice deep breath and let on a nice
big sigh for the experience, for the journey, ah, because
it is now time to turn that pain into purpose.
And as the old adage goes, what doesn't kill us
only makes us stronger. So we got this, we can
do it together, and we can turn that pain into
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purpose and unity through community. Consider sharing these painful experiences
with others who can relate and listen, such as trained experts, counselors, mentors, mentors,
or life coaches. This can be very therapeutic and healing
and inspire those going through similar struggles and pain. But
by actively engaging in these practices that we've talked about today,
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we can transform our pain into a meaningful purpose that
enriches our lives, the lives of others, and the world.
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That we live and share together.
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I just want to thank you for hanging out with
me today, walking through that meditation with me. I hope
that you find joy in the day, as I always
like to say, a new day, a new opportunity, a
day we've not seen before, to use our intuition to
prospect this wonderful world around us. And I hope that
you'll dare to dream, dare to explore, dare to live,
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and discover that beautiful diamond within until our next soul
adventure together, be kind, be caring, be compassionate. And again,
wherever you're at in this world, whatever's going on, take
that time to disconnect so you can make that time
to reconnect. And most importantly, dare to dream, dare to explore,
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dare to live, and you will discover her, that diamond
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Today is September eleventh, also known as nine to eleven,
and I want to dedicate this show and just take
a moment of silence to remember all of those who
were impacted by the horrible events so many years ago,
from nine to eleven. As we like to say, never forget.
And I also want to just take this moment of
silence for all of the victims, all of our first responders,
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both human and fur babies that were a part of
that rescue operation, and of course the families that still
endure the pain to this very day. So if you
join me in thought, in prayer and great loving intentions,
let's just take a moment of silence to honor those
on this very special, sacred, yet sad day. And so
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it is, so for today's episode, I'm going to share
a personal journey with you, my own personal journey of
the last few months of life changing events that endured
a lot of pain, and I wrote this article and
you can get this article at markleineheart dot com under
the featured articles, and the title of it is turning
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Pain into Purpose, a journey of healing and transformation, and
I thought it would be nice to turn this into
an episode to share with you, you know, the pain
that not only I have gone through with this life
changing back surgery that I had that literally changed my
career path. As of today, I'm officially retired. I got
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my notice this morning, so it's a sad day, but
it's yet a celebration day of being retired after twenty
three years of federal.
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Service and this surgery.
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Really, as I wrote this article, it was based on
the journey of my own perception and the reflection of
how I didn't let this pain defeat me. And I'm
sure a lot of you listening to this show past episodes,
you know that I like to share the journey or
what I call sol adventures and how we can take
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something that is, you know, maybe thought to be negative
and turn that into a positive, turn it into you know,
information and content that we can use to grow.
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Our spiritual journey.
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I were here, you know, it is a journey of
the mind, the body, and the spirit. And you know,
we learned that over our journey we are we become
the sum of our experiences. And this journey for me,
I had the surgery back in April, so I guess
it's about five months now post surgery. You know, I
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thought that I would share this story with you and
then take you on a nice meditation after our break,
we'll come back and I'm going to take you on
a nice meditative journey to recap and to go through
the things that I'm talking about in this latest article
that I've published, and to take you up to the
forest somewhere.
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I just came back from.
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I just spent several days up in the Olympic Rainforest here,
which is north of Seattle, Washington here in Washington State.
For those of you that follow the Twilight movies, The
Vampires in the Werewolves, it was up in that area.
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It's called the Whole Rainforest.
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And I spent a lot of time up there connecting
to nature, connecting and reflecting, rejuvenating, reviving with nature.
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And I like to break the word down.
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If you look at the word forest, if we break
it in half, it literally says for rest and it's
with the connection to nature that we can really start
to understand our journey of here being an incarnate being
with a density of a physical flesh suit. But what
happens is Nature also reveals to us that there's more
than just this physical flesh suit.
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We have a consciousness.
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We can awaken to our consciousness, to our spiritualism, to
who we are, our purpose.
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And our passion.
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And we also know that part of this journey, with
the joy and the pleasures, comes the pain and the
balance of what life is for us as physical beings.
We know that pain is an inventable part of our
human experience, but how we respond to it can profoundly
shape our lives. And when this journey was beset before
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me back in April that I would have to have
this surgery, there was really no way around it, and
I probably should have had it three years.
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Previous, but it really had to prepare.
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My mind to deal with such an extension of such
a very serious surgery. And I've, you know, the only
other surgery I think I ever had in my life
up to these this point in my journey was having
a broken nose repaired and a broken leg when I
was really really small, which I don't remember, but this
one when you start working on the spine. You know,
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the spine from a physical standpoint impacts us, you know, from.
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Our ability to walk, ability to sit.
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But it also for me, it was more of a
deeper look at the spiritual pathways of the energy that
flows from the crown chakra at the top of the head,
that flows down through the spine, through the thirty three
vertebrates down to the tips of our toes to ground.
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And I thought, wow, I'm going to really get not
only am I going to get fixed and.
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Have a better back, but I'm going to get my
spiritual pathways, you know, where the energy goes down those nerves,
where the energy the prawna the breath, you know, as
a medium working with what's unseen, I was getting that improved.
So I was, you know, described it as an old
rickety bridge, it's getting short up to be like new.
And I feel like, not only did it help me physically,
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but it helped me mentally, emotionally and of course spiritually.
And you know, if if we really approach something like this,
what I really started to do was is this happening
to me or is this happening for me. So right here,
I'm gonna pause, and I want you to visually, if
you're listening, stand up, maybe look into a mirror and
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put your hands on your hip, you know, like the
superheroes do, and just stand in your power, and you decide,
and you are going to focus on the pain and
either be a victim of life or you can accept
the pain and be the owner of it.
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And that's what I decided to do.
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I really my mantra going into this, with this complete change,
you know, with the surgery, was to really stand up
and say, this is happening for me. And there's gifts
that have been delivered along the way because of this surgery,
including my announcement of being.
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Retired as of today.
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I just got the notification this morning, and you know,
it's been a journey, but I was not going to
be the victim of this pain. And so for today's episode,
I'm going to guide you through how we can take
our pain and we can turn our pain into purpose.
But it's going to be a journey of healing and
transformation and of course, patients, because this journey doesn't just
happen in one day.
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In a twenty four hour span.
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We've learned that many individuals worldwide and throughout history have
discovered that suffering can catalyze personal growth. It can you
provide healing, strength, and of course transformation. Think of the
caterpillar through this extreme struggle of the cocoon emerging as
a beautiful butterfly with a new perspective. So by reframing
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pain as an opportunity for purpose, we can find meaning
in our struggles and we can use them to fuel
our passions. And there's a quote that I have put
in the article from Guru Pathique and he said this quote,
the greatest illusion of this world is the illusion of separation.
Things you think are separate and different are actually one
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and in the same end quote. So, while pain is
a universal experience for everyone, everyone who has ever lived
has experienced some sort of pain, whether it's physical, emotional, mental, spiritual,
its impact will always vary from.
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Person to person, because that is what life is.
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Life is subjective based on your perspective. But by embracing
our suffering and transforming it into purpose, we can create
meaningful change in our lives, the lives of others, and
this amazing world that we all share together. This transformation
journey that I'm writing about in this article.
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Though challenging, and.
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I will say it has been challenging, it holds the
potential for profound personal grith, growth and fulfillment.
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Ultimately, our pain can become a powerful.
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Narrative that defines our purpose and it inspires those around us.
A big part of why I started this podcast over
eight seasons ago, why I started the Intuitive prospect Or
consulting business was not to get more likes on social media.
I really enjoy the content that I create. I enjoy
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helping others. I have always been in service, going all
the way back from the first time I served our
country in the US Coast Guard, transferred out of there
to serve my local community as a firefighter EMT first responder,
then moved into the federal government working for our veterans
through the Veterans Administration, and now that that journey has
officially come to an end with retirement. Now I can
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focus really a lot of my time, not just to
my shows, whether you follow me on YouTube Metaphysical meet
Up with Mark, which is live, my live interactive shows
through Facebook Live and YouTube, the articles that you may
read or follow and inspired living I really enjoy creating
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the content, and I enjoy how it makes me feel
when I create that, And if it serves a purpose
now today, in the present moment, or perhaps it serves
a purpose down the road in a year, two years,
ten years, fifty years, that's really why I have loved
doing this work, and of course being on the radio
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and doing podcasts, I get to connect with so many
amazing people.
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I get to interview and hear their stories.
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And we have more guests coming up in the months
ahead for Inspired Living. So I hope that you'll continue
to join us here on Wednesdays through Home Times Media
at twelve pm Pacific three pm Eastern, because we do
have more content to share. We have more inspiration and
storytelling to share.
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With all of you.
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And again, if you miss the live episode, you can
always catch us wherever you get your favorite podcasting or
whatever platform you listen to for your favorite podcast, because
we're streaming through most of those now. But again, while
pain is universal experience for everyone who has ever lived,
it's always going to unpact us from.
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Person to person.
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So I just want you to, you know, offer yourself
grace as you listen today's show.
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Be patient, with yourself.
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You're right where you need to be and all you
have is right now the present moment. But if we
start to embrace versus that victim mentality of what pain
can do to us, because life has kicked us all
in the gut sometimes, you know, several times. But as
I always remind myself, as the Japanese proverb reminds us,
get knocked down seven, stand up eight. And when you
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stand up, you put those hands on your hip and
you have that superhero pose and you stand up to life.
And again, the transformation, the journey no challenging. It holds
the potential for profound personal growth and fulfillment.
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So let's talk about understand andy pain.
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Let's have that what I talked about reframing how we
look at our things. As you know, doctor Wayne Dyer
reminded us when he was here on the planet. He
always said, if you change the way you look at things,
the things you look at start to change.
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And so today's episode, hopefully we can help you do that.
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And then we'll do also a meditation through the forest
after the break to give you that visualization, to give
you that connection, to give you that feeling that you
are alive, and it's because you are alive that you
feel the pain, you feel the pleasures, and that is
the balance of our journey. So as we start understanding pain,
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pain can manifest, like I said, both physically, emotionally, psychologically,
and it comes.
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In spiritual forms.
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It often serves as a signal that something is wrong,
prompting us to take action.
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Now, it can prompt us to take action.
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But I always remind folks that we also have a
thing called choice and free will. Just because we're prompted
to take action doesn't mean that we are going.
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To take action.
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While it can be deliberating, pain has the potential to
teach us valuable lessons about resilience, about compassion, about empathy
and the human condition. We should accept our feelings and
experiences without judgment and or opinion. A lot of times,
if we go into that place of judgment or opinion,
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that's your que right there, that the ego has kicked in,
because that's what the ego is meant to do. In
this physical world that can be very fast paced, very chaotic,
very tragic. As as we're talking about this on nine
to eleven, a very tragic, sad day that still resonates
in ripples to this very day, even though it's been
twenty plus years since this event unfolded.
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And so if we start to understand pain, we.
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Should accept our feelings and experiences without judgment and or opinion.
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And when you do, you start to name your ego.
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I always remind people the best way to understand the
ego versus the human condition is name your ego. When
you come to my development group or my students, I
teach them the first thing is what's a person, place,
or thing that you just don't like or resonate with?
To name that, and that becomes your ego's name. Because
you are a energetic, spiritual being having a human experience,
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and in the human experience, you have to have ego
to survive in today's world. But it doesn't mean you
have to follow everything the ego tells you. You don't
have to listen all the time to what the ego
tells us. So I named my ego ego or back
from the old movies of egor coming up to you.
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Know, master or show you to do this.
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It's like, no, I don't need you right now, Egor.
I need to connect to who I am in my
higher self. So when we understand pain, we're understanding that
our brain and our heart. Pain is the first toward acceptance, healing,
and transformation. Eckhart totally teaches us awareness is the greatest
agent for change, and when you become aware and understanding pain,
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then that helps you find your purpose, which leads me
to my next topic, finding our purpose. How we channel energy.
We use the energy from our pain to fuel our
passions and discover a new purpose in life. So today
I can sit here not just talking to talk, but
walking the walk. I'm living a completely different journey now
from what I was just just a year ago, even
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even five months ago, since having this very life changing
medical procedure that needed to take place. But I'm channeling
that energy of that pain and that discomfort and the
you know, the healing of my incisions, and the mental
aspect of not being able to do what I used
to do.
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But I'm channeling that energy down from my crown.
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Chakra, through my spine, through the pineal glound, down to
the tips of my feet, and down back.
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To Mother Earth.
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So you can channel your energy to find your purpose,
you know, if you know, whether it's through art, arrieting,
dancing plant, medicine, meditation, yoga, hiking, volunteering, advocacy. Channeling our
feelings into a creative outlet. Outlet can bring us a
sense of purpose. Healing and transformation. Transforming pain into purpose
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often involves setting new goals. These can be related to
your personal development, career aspirations, or having a social impact.
That's really where my focus was when I started setting
these intentions of channeling energy was how can I have
a more broader social impact through my shows, through this podcast,
through my articles, through my clients and my consulting to
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help people deal with their trauma, deal with their grief,
you know, have that rehabilitation, move into that healing, and
have that transformation. And what that does is reset attainable goals.
It can give us a sense of purpose. Practicing self
compassion This is another one in the article that I've
talked about that's so very important. We have compassion many times,
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especially if you're sensitive or an impact. We're really good
as you know, I think of the I think in
the medical industry because that's what I was in for
many many years as a you know, first as a firefighter,
EMT first responder, and then moved into healthcare provider here
in local Seattle hospital and then working for the via hospitals.
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You know we have.
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We're really good as impath and sensitives of taking care
of other people doctors, nurses, first responders, but we're really
poor and really bad of taking care of ourself. So
I incorporated to practice self compassion into this article today
for the show is be kind to yourself during this
change process. Give yourself patience, give yourself time, give yourself grace,
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understanding that healing takes time, and then it's okay to
feel vulnerable.
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Life is not a sprint, my friends, but a marathon.
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And as mister Mark Twain reminds us, quote, do not
regret growing older. It is a privileged diet denied to
many end quote. So embracing self compassion is a crucial
part of this journey. It allows us to navigate the
challenges with grace and a positive mindset. And the best
way to move into that practicing self compassion after you've
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named your ego, ask your ego to step outside and
really just feel at the human conscious level, at the
raw incarnate density, physical fleshoot of that compassion for yourself,
and you can still always offer compassion and kindness and
empathy to those around you, your family or friends, your
for babies, your colleagues, and of course are a very
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crazy world. Embracing change and engage in devotional mindfulness, understanding
that our journey will evolve as redo and as life does.
Stay open and flexible to new passions, inspirations and purposes
that may arise as we are going through this healing process,
and take in our pain and turning it into purpose practices.
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Like I said, meditation. I use chigong every morning, which
is the mother of tai chi. It's using your life
force energy.
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Breath work. Breath work is so very, very powerful.
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Two breathworks that I actually recommend and I've used myself
in my spiritual healing of transformation is soma breathwork.
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So Soma you can look that up.
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And of course when you emerge yourself into a cold
plunge environment, whim Hof breathwork is very powerful and very
healing from not only just the mind, but for the
physical body. When you put yourself in, you know, dip
down into a cold pool at fifty one degrees.
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I go out here.
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I lived just a few blocks from the Puget Sound
area here in Seattle, So I can go down and
actually do a cold plunge in the Puget Sound, which
is about fifty one degrees fahrenheit for three to five minutes.
And boy, let me tell you that breath work helps
me get through that, you know, thirty seconds to a
minute pain of I'm going to die, I'm in cold water.
But breath work can really be very helpful to embrace
change and engage in devotional mindfulness.
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Mindfulness.
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So again, working on these different modalities, it helps us
stay also in the present moment. Yoga's good, pilate's good, exercise,
getting out into the four Like I said, just taking
off your.
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Shoes and walking forest, bathing on bare grass.
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It can help us stay not only in the present
moment while reducing anxiety, depression and stress related to pass
pain and the fast change is taking place right now
in the material world. We soon learned that the only
constant in life is that of change. So if we
work to keep up with the waves of change versus
being underneath them, those waves are going to feel as
heavy when they.
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Come crashing down.
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Celebrate small winds and stay committed acknowledge progress no matter
how small it is.
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Celebrating our achievements.
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Can enhance our motivation, It can enhance our healing, It
can enhance our energy and our transformations, and it can
also reinforce our sense of purpose. Turning our pain into
passion is a journey, not a destination. Stay committed to
your growth, Be patient and allow that grace and self
compassion I just talked about to flow daily in and
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out of your life. Each small step forward is a
reason to to celebrate and a reminder of our resilience
and our strength to heal and to take that pain
and turn it into purpose.
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Reflection.
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Take time to reflect on our pain, take the time
to disconnect, to make the time to reconnect. It will
help give us perspective on the pain through reflection, acceptance,
and surrender to the power of purpose. What specific life
experiences have shaped us? Like I said at the beginning,
to show we are the sum of our experiences, better said,
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we are the sum of our life experiences and the lessons.
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We have learned all along the way.
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Journaling can be helpful for life's toolbox in this process,
as it provides a record of growth and transformation from
our past, also our present moment and what we want
to mark down for our future, the goals that we
hope to attain in the future. Journaling can also help
us articulate our feelings at that moment, and it's a
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great way to go back and be able to read
what you're feeling in that moment of the pain and
what helps you get through that. Write about the pain,
it's meaning and how it has affected your life.
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So when we come back.
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From our break, we're going to pick up a few
more bullet points, and then I'm going to lead you
on a nice meditation as we walk through the forest
and recall all the things I'm sharing on today's episode,
which is transforming pain into purpose. We'll be back here
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is you can get at marklineheart dot com if you
want to read more about it. Is Turning Pain into Purpose,
a journey of healing and transformation and really just a
journey of how I approach pain and how I take
that pain and move it from pain into purpose and
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so some of the things as we get ready for
this nice meditation, as I'm going to take you through
the for us and walk through and you're going to
hear my voice from time to time coming up with
some of the bullet points that I've been listening out.
But let's kind of just recap so you can get
ready for this meditation of you know, we talked about
you know that pain is universal experience for everyone who
has ever lived, and it's going to its impact is
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always going to vary from person to person. But we
have you know that the bullet point of understanding pain,
we have the bullet point of finding our purpose.
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And channelling life's energies.
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We have practicing self compassion for ourselves and not regretting
grown older because it is a privilege denied to many.
I can definitely speak to that embracing change and engage
in a devotional mindfulness every single day in the present moment,
because today is all you have, celebrating along the way
those small wins and achievements that we are no matter
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how small, as long as you're staying committed to the
process of taking that pain and moving into purpose. It
leads us into the last topic that the bullet point
that I was talking about right before the break was reflection,
and that reflection is take that time. And this is
something that I first started when I was in you know,
my spiritual awakening, spiritual journey and extreme grief. And what
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I today write about is the TNT, the trauma and
the tragedy that blew up my life was you know,
take that time to disconnect, to make that time to reconnect.
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Whatever it is for you and your journey. For me,
my religion is nature.
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That is when people say are you religious, I say no,
but my religion is nature. I'm very spiritual, but I'm
my connection is to that of nature. That's why I
can do all the above that I've just talked about
in this article. The last few bullet points is connecting
with others sharing our experiences, and I did this weekend.
I went to a beautiful ceremony out in the rainforest
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and was able to connect with others sharing my pain,
sharing my experiences. But if we share our experiences, we
can foster connection in a deeper understanding that you're not
the only person going through pain, that everybody has some
degree of pain, whether physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual. Support groups, forums,
conversations with family, friends, and yes, even our fur babies
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can provide a sense of community, connection and validation.
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As read what I.
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Like to say, quote unquote prospect through our pain, connecting
with others who have experienced similar pain can be very,
very empowering.
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So maybe considering join a support group or an online community.
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We have the technology today to connect throughout the world.
We have the ability to use our technology to connect
with others.
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And as I was writing this article, I wanted to look.
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At some people that were challenged, but we know them
in our reality today. You are going to know some
of these figures they're going to talk about here in
just a few seconds. But it was like, how did
they endure? How did they get through everything that they
got through? And so many influential figures have turned their
pain into purpose. First one that came to my mind
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was missing Oprah Winfrey. Whether you like her or don't
like her, that's not the point. She overcame traumatic childhood
to become a leading voice and not only self improvement
but also empowerment.
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Similarly, Miss JK.
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Rolin, who faced numerous rejections before publishing the Harry Potter series,
which now has inspired man's of people around the globe,
has made lots and lots of money in its movies,
and even has a theme park in Florida for the
Harry Potter fans out there. Mister Nick Vudachik, he was born,
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literally born without arms and legs, but he didn't hold back.
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He did not be the.
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Victim of that pain. So just take a second to
imagine having no arms, no legs. But yet he overcame
these immense challenges and he's now a motivational speaker and
the author known to many around the globe for his purpose,
his inspiration, and his tenacity, whether it's scuba diving, whether
it's jumping out.
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Of an airplane. Again no arms, no legs.
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And I also thought about, you know, my hero and
I just want to give her a shout out is
my one of my nieces, Sarah Lainhart, and she was
born into this world with severe cerebro polesy. She's always
been my hero, always will be my hero for the
fact that what she's endured over two hundred surgeries, and
here I'm complaining about my one surgery. She's had over
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two hundred surgeries in her lifetime. She's in her thirties now,
and she has never walked. She's never enjoyed because if
you know Criba Polesy, it's equivalent to having one hundred
times the gravity that you and I feel on a
normal day to day basis the things that I take
for granted, She's never maybe even experienced in her life,
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and so you know that's somebody. But yet she still
puts a smile on her face every time I see
her and spend time with her. She always just shows
so much love, smiles, she can communicate through her keyboard
of her wheelchair.
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But she is my biggest hero in life. So I
just I love you, Sarah, and just a big cheof
out to you. But again we come back to the
power of reframing.
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Reframing is a psychological technique that involves changing how we
perceive a situation. Again, instead of viewing pain as a
negative experience, start to view it as reframing that it's
gonna be there. It's there no matter what for everybody,
and we can see it as a stepping stone towards
something bigger, a stepping stone towards growth. This shift in
perspective allows us to extract the valuable insights from our
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suffering which can inform our future choices and our actions.
And I said this earlier again, Doctor Wayne Dyer reminds
us of you change the way you look at things.
The things you look at can change, just like it
did for Oprah, just like it did for jk Rawlins,
just like it did for mister Nick Vudachik. Another person
that came to mind was mister Tony Robbins, who grew
up in a very unstable household. He faced years of
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financial struggles and personal challenges, but something.
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Inside him didn't give up.
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He didn't give in, and he turns his negative experiences
into a career and purpose as a motivational speaker and
a life coach who has helped millions achieve personal and
financial freedoms. Again, if you may like these people, you
may not like these people. That's free will and choice,
and that's your perspective. But these are real world people
who are in our culture and our society, whose stories
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should inspire you, should influence you to never give up,
never give in Always Keep Going, and last, but not least,
one of my favorites, Miss Brene Brown, known as a
researcher and our author and the work of vulnerability and shame,
which we have a lot in our world. She shared
her struggles and pain through her very popular ted talks
and books to inspire others to embrace their imperfections and
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live authentically with purpose. She is one of the first
books I read when I was trying to find who
I am, to find my authenticity? Who is the intuitive
prospector who is Mark Leinhart? Their stories remind us that
pain can be the precursor to extraordinary achievements, purpose, healing,
and transformations that can change not only are our lives,
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but the lives of others. Daniel Defoe reminds us quote
the soul is placed in the body like a rough
diamond and must be polished or the luster of it
will never appear. So, my friends, inspired listeners catching this episode,
either today or in the future, please keep going, living
and prospecting daily for that diamond deep within the soul
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and the many beautiful gems of healing, inspiration, encouragement, motivation
and transformations that our world will reveal in due time.
It is now time to turn that pain into purpose.
And as the old adage goes, what doesn't kill us
only makes us stronger. We got this, we can do
it together, and together we can turn that pain into purpose.
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So consider sharing those painful experiences, like I said, with
others who can relate and listen, such as trained experts, counselors, mentors,
or life coaches, which I have had all the above.
This can be very therapeutic and healing and inspire those
going through similar struggles and the pain that you may
be experiencing. But by actively engaging in these practices that
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I've talked with you today, we can transform our pain
into meaningful purpose that enriches our lives.
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And the lives of others.
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And as I opened up the show with Marcus Surrealis,
we'll close this article and get ready for our meditation.
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Quote.
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You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize
this and you will find your strength end quote. So
I would like to have you joined me as we're
going to take a walk through the forest and this
nice meditation. So take a nice deep breath in, become
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present to the moments of your life, and let us
take this journey of transforming pain into purpose, a journey
of healing and transformation. How do you find purpose in
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your pain? The road will look different for each of us,
but the framework can be a guide.
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I'm not quite sure how to help you reform for
the pain.
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Speak its name, whether it's an illness, an injury, a surgery,
a bad breakup, a loss of.
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A loved one.
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Speak its name, whether traumatic physical or mental abuse, abandonment, divorce,
a psychological condition.
Speaker 3 (40:20):
Speak its name.
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And as we're walking through the forest, taking in the sounds,
the smells, the sights, in your mind lists some of
the lessons.
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And by putting a name to this lesson the awareness
of our pain.
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By speaking its name, saying out loud, listening to our lessons,
it can help bring us into the present moment and
allow that pain to move through us and not stay
within us. And as we're walking along this beautiful journey
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of life, let's get.
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Clear on what we want from this life and why.
Let's define the why. What does our self growth blueprint?
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Where do I want to channel my energy? When and
where do.
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I feel most excited in my life?
Speaker 3 (42:17):
What fills your cup? What are some of your core values?
How do you define them?
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And as we're walking along, ask yourself those questions, where
do I want to channel my energy? My focus determines
my reality. What are some of the best moments in
my life? Taking that pain and focusing on what is pleasure?
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Taking those hard earned lessons, the life lessons that we've
all endured, and turning them into triumphs.
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How can I move my pain towards purpose?
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How can these lessons that I've endured aid in transforming
my life? Think through ways in which you are uniquely
suited to attend this mission of life, the life lessons
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that we've learned all along the way, and to be
in line with you and your higher self.
Speaker 3 (43:35):
Buddha reminds us to let go. There are certain parts
of the pain that won't ever be positive.
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Whatever you experienced, but awareness, acceptance, letting it move through you,
and letting go is a way to transform pain into purpose.
Turn in our pain and the purpose as a process
of overcoming barriers and limits that your pain, our pain,
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this world's pain, may impose.
Speaker 3 (44:11):
Than emotionally digesting.
Speaker 2 (44:13):
The experience and choosing to do something with the emotional
outcome that feels helpful, uplifting, inspiring, and gratifying. This is
less about finding positive or positive spin from the trauma,
from the grief, from the loss that you may be feeling,
and more about building resilience from the experience. I mean
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we gain that resilience from the experience by understanding what
pain is. Pain can manifest in physical, emotional, psychological, and
spiritual forms, but understanding our brain and heart pain is
the first step towards acceptance, healing and true transformation.
Speaker 3 (45:06):
Finding our purpose.
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Channel that energy that I talked about earlier, and as
we're walking through on this meditative journey through the forest
or for rest, the energy from our pain can fuel
our passions and help us discover new purposes in life,
whether through arts, writing, dancing, plat medicines, meditation, yoga, hiking, volunteering,
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or advocacy. Channeling our feelings into creative outlets can bring
a sense of purpose, healing, and transformation. And now we
want to practice self compassion along this journey, knowing that
we need to embrace change and engage in a devotional,
mindful practice to be in the present moment. And maybe
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along this pathway of this meditation, you've forgotten to take that.
Speaker 3 (46:02):
Deep breath in.
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So as we're walking, take another nice, deep, cleansing healing breath, breathing.
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In what you want.
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And through the exhalation, letting go what no longer serves you,
including the pain that you may have experienced. And this
is us practicing self compression as reconnect to the greatest
teacher of healing, Mother Nature, Mother Earth. Now finding ourselves
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in the middle of this beautiful, awakening, healing, spiritual forest,
knowing that life is always going to be changing for us,
and we can embrace that change and engage in that
devotional mindfulness, understanding that our journey will evolve as we
do and as life does. Maybe you want to stand
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or perhaps sit on a nice wood bench to your
right and celebrate the small wins and whether you're starting
this commitment or you've been on this journey, to stay
committed acknowledge progress no matter how small. Celebrating achievements can
enhance our motivation, healing and transformations, and reinforce our sense
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of purpose. Turning our pain into passion is a journey,
not a destination. Stay committed growth, be patient, and allow
the grace and self compassion to flow daily. Each small
step forward is a reason to celebrate and a reminder
of our resilience and our strength. And as we moved
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to reflection, whether you're now standing and or sitting, take
that time to reflect on your pain, take that time
to disconnect, to make that time to reconnect, taking a nice, deep, healing,
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cleansing breath again, breathing in what you want, excelling what
you don't. We are the psalm of all of our
life experiences and the lessons we have learned along this.
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Way, and through the power of breath, through the power
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of attunement and awareness, through the power of reframingle is
use that.
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Framing technique that involves change how we perceive a situation.
Now in the in the middle of this beautiful spiritual
awakening forest full of love, hope, grace, knowledge, wisdom, and peace,
let us view our pain.
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Instead of a negative experience.
Speaker 2 (50:21):
Let us step on this pain as a stepping stone
towards growth. Let us use this stepping stone towards something
bigger than ourselves and allowing this shift and perspective to
extract valuable insights from our suffering, which can inform our
future choices and our actions. Remembering that we're not alone
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on this journey. We have those in the physical world,
and of course those in the spiritual world that only
ever thought way that can share in our experiences and
can foster connection and understanding. Maybe making a commitment to
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join a group of former or conversation with family, friends,
and yes, even our fur babies can provide a sense
of community connection as we prospect through this pain, or
as I like to say, unity through community connected with
others who have experienced similar pain can be empowering. And
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I hope that you connect not only with yourself and
your higher self, but those that can help share in
the pain that we've all experienced in life. And now,
as we proceed to walk on and the end of
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this meditation, or we stand up from that nice what
a bench that supported us during this connection, we start
to walk out of the forest of hope, of knowledge,
of grace and wisdom, of peace, and of course of healing,
realizing that we can take that pain as a stepping
stone to something bigger, healthier, and better than what we
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previous were before this meditation.
Speaker 3 (52:24):
Taking another nice, deep healing.
Speaker 2 (52:26):
Breath now as relieve the forest, Please keep going, please
keep living, and please keep prospecting daily for that diamond
that is deep within your soul and the many beautiful
gems of healing, inspiration, encouragement, motivation, and transformation our world
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will reveal in due time. Now trust is leaving us,
and we are now back to where we began to
the sound of my voice, connecting together today.
Speaker 3 (53:13):
With unity through community.
Speaker 2 (53:17):
Taking another nice deep breath and let on a nice
big sigh for the experience, for the journey, ah, because
it is now time to turn that pain into purpose.
And as the old adage goes, what doesn't kill us
only makes us stronger. So we got this, we can
do it together, and we can turn that pain into
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purpose and unity through community. Consider sharing these painful experiences
with others who can relate and listen, such as trained experts, counselors, mentors, mentors,
or life coaches. This can be very therapeutic and healing
and inspire those going through similar struggles and pain. But
by actively engaging in these practices that we've talked about today,
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we can transform our pain into a meaningful purpose that
enriches our lives, the lives of others, and the world.
Speaker 3 (54:10):
That we live and share together.
Speaker 2 (54:13):
I just want to thank you for hanging out with
me today, walking through that meditation with me. I hope
that you find joy in the day, as I always
like to say, a new day, a new opportunity, a
day we've not seen before, to use our intuition to
prospect this wonderful world around us. And I hope that
you'll dare to dream, dare to explore, dare to live,
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and discover that beautiful diamond within until our next soul
adventure together, be kind, be caring, be compassionate. And again,
wherever you're at in this world, whatever's going on, take
that time to disconnect so you can make that time
to reconnect. And most importantly, dare to dream, dare to explore,
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dare to live, and you will discover her, that diamond
within
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