December 12, 2024 • 35 mins
Air Date - 11 December 2024
It’s easy to be generous with our time, compliments, and energy with those who uplift our spirits and bring us joy, but true generosity is found when no one else is around.
When we look at others we connect with, we see brilliance, charisma, beauty, and kindness… something that feels easy to lean into and easy to admire. Yet, so often, it is hard for most to be just as generous with ourselves… if we look in the mirror, we look for things to fix, change, or find fault in instead of looking at things we like. If we think about our character, we usually look for areas we think we lack instead of looking to places where we are gifted and brilliant.
Generosity isn’t just giving to others; it’s the spirit of shining bright within and without, of being generous to yourself.
So before you judge, criticize, diminish, or compare your life to others, consider that you are an amazing creature destined for greatness.
In the spirit of giving, give yourself the gift of loving yourself from within.
You are capable of creating, being, and receiving absolutely anything. Your life can change in an instant and every day,
You have the chance to change your life.
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It’s easy to be generous with our time, compliments, and energy with those who uplift our spirits and bring us joy, but true generosity is found when no one else is around.
When we look at others we connect with, we see brilliance, charisma, beauty, and kindness… something that feels easy to lean into and easy to admire. Yet, so often, it is hard for most to be just as generous with ourselves… if we look in the mirror, we look for things to fix, change, or find fault in instead of looking at things we like. If we think about our character, we usually look for areas we think we lack instead of looking to places where we are gifted and brilliant.
Generosity isn’t just giving to others; it’s the spirit of shining bright within and without, of being generous to yourself.
So before you judge, criticize, diminish, or compare your life to others, consider that you are an amazing creature destined for greatness.
In the spirit of giving, give yourself the gift of loving yourself from within.
You are capable of creating, being, and receiving absolutely anything. Your life can change in an instant and every day,
You have the chance to change your life.
I’ve been lucky to be a part of the 12 days of Christmas giveaway; if you’d like to participate, sign up for some amazing gifts… click here to get free access: https://www.laurieburrows.com/a/2148003964/qcPjSkJh
http://www.katherinemcintosh.com
#Life #KatherineMcIntosh #TrustingYourGut #Intuition #Consciousness #Lifestyle #BodyAwareness #Health #Wellness
Visit the Trusting Your Gut Show Page https://omtimes.com/iom/shows/trusting-your-gut
Connect with Katherine McIntosh at https://www.katherinemcintosh.com
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Speaker 1 (00:08):
Be bold, be brave, be extraordinary, be vulnerable, be real,
be curious, be true.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Be you.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Welcome to trusting your gut with world class energy Intuitive
Katherine McIntosh A show designed to awaken you to enjoy
the process of evolving, have fun along the way, and
learn to listen to those silent in between moments. You
are the expert of your own life and nobody knows
more about the next steps to take in your journey
(00:40):
than you. So please listen to your gut and discover
what's waiting for you to explore. Here is your host,
Katherine McIntosh.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
All right, my magical friends, so welcome. Yes, so today
we are going to be talking about, right, just really
the spirit of generosity. And I have got my notes
here because I always yep, so the spirit of generosity,
why it's so important, and particularly in this time of year,
(01:16):
why it might be so important specifically for you, and
how to hone in on that generosity. And so give
you a really simple example. Yesterday I was buying my
Christmas tree. Right, it's that time of the year the holidays,
and holidays can bring out pain, they can bring out sadness,
they can bring out celebration, but they can also bring
(01:38):
out a spirit of generosity. And yesterday I'm buying a
tree decorating it tomorrow with my son. And this sweet
woman probably weighed ninety pounds. Was had been, you know,
in full ski year outside at this tree form or
(01:59):
like outside the market, and she was so sweet. She said, oh,
I'll set this one aside for you. It was like
the perfect tree. I'll you know, I'll do this. Why
don't you pull your car around, I'll put it in
for you. You don't you know. She was like half
my size and she's like, I'll carry the tree. I'll
(02:19):
do it. It's too heavy for you. And I was like,
oh my god, you're hilarious. And you know, we got
done and she put the tree in and all this stuff,
and I just like went into my car and I
was like, wow, she just like she's been out here
all day long. She's friendly, she has a smile on
her face. She made my life so much easier. And
I you know, hand her a twenty dollars bill and
(02:41):
she was like, oh my god, Oh my god. I
was like, thank you, Merry Christmas. And she just like
you could see the look on her face. And so
I'm going to take the spear of generosity in a
bit of a different direction. So, yes, you can contribute
to others financially. You can give gifts. You know, you
can give compliments. And what I really wanted to hone
(03:04):
in today is are you being generous with you? Are
you taking time to nurture you? Are you feeding yourself
thoughts and feelings and ideas and dreams that actually acknowledge
the gift you are. And so if you see someone
(03:25):
on the street and you admire their beauty or their outfit,
or their smile or their hair, you immediately think of
all their brilliance. Right when we meet people, those first
few interactions, especially those first few moments of meeting someone,
it's like you resonate or you don't, not right, not wrong.
(03:47):
But when you resonate with someone in those first few
moments of meeting them, is like you, all you can
see is their brilliance, their brightness, their kindness, their beauty,
their careerisma. You know, you see the magic in them, right,
and they see the magic in you. And yet every
(04:10):
day when we're faced with ourselves in the mirror, in
a mirror right here, hello, when we're faced with seeing
ourselves in the mirror. We're typically not generous. We're not generous.
We undersell ourselves with our gifts. We you know, cut
ourselves down. We like, you know, maybe we can plain
(04:32):
about our finances, maybe we can plain about our job,
maybe we compare ourselves to other people and their lives.
And that's not generosity. That actually takes away from your gift,
from your spirit, from what's alive in you. And so
this holiday season, I wanted to invite you to consider
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what being generous with you would look like, what being
generous would you with you would feel like. So I'm
not saying God and spend money on yourself to be
generous with you. Generosity is are you paying attention to
the kindness that you are thinking, that you're feeling, and
(05:17):
that you're speaking to yourself when no one else is around,
Because that's the generosity, And so pay attention. Right when
we start paying attention to our thoughts, we will be
quite surprised. Right, excuse me, no energy on that right
(05:37):
as you guys all remember I tend to yawn when
i'm when we're moving some energy, and so there's a
lot of energy up for you know, being generous. And
so if you want someone to be generous with you,
to be kind to you, to be supportive of you,
(05:59):
to kind of have your back. You have to have
your own back first, right. If you want someone to
give you compliments, you want to compliment yourself. You know.
I remember years ago when I was first starting out
really in the public eye. Starting out, so I had
been kind of a closet energy intuitive, a closet healer
(06:21):
or a closet or you know, energy worker. And when
I started to go really public, and you know, i'd
be in crowds of hundreds of people, I really wanted
to be acknowledged, like for being good. Well, I was like,
nobody's acknowledging me. And it's funny because people come up
(06:42):
to you and say, did you hear everyone talk about you?
I was like, no, I didn't hear a word, and
they're like, are you kidding me. Everyone's talking about the
impact that you're making. Everyone's talking about the difference that
you're gonna do that today. Everyone's talking about the difference
that you're being and I so wanted that validation. This
(07:04):
is what's crazy. I literally couldn't hear it even when
people were telling me. And so the point being is
if you're not going to validate you, if you're not
going to acknowledge you, if you're not going to give
yourself comliments, if you're not going to look in the
mirror and see the brightness and the magic and the
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joy and the charisma and the beauty and the quirkiness
and the you know, the brilliance and your ways of thinking.
If you're not going to do it for yourself, it's
really hard to expect other people to do it. And
so generosity also is about this idea that giving without
(07:52):
being acknowledged, right, giving without needing to get something in return,
really important because the value of a gift right is
to give. I've had people recently who have been like Catherine,
you're such a giver that you sometimes are so worried
(08:14):
about other people that you sometimes don't take time for yourself.
And it's true. Right, I go do yoga, I ski,
I meditate, I try to really, but when somebody else
is giving me energy, or giving me a gift, or
giving me a compliment, or giving me attention, my first
instinct is to want to give right back. But generosity
(08:37):
with yourself is about are you willing to receive what's
being given to you. And so when you write heart
and head congruence, when you get your heart and your
head on the same wavelength, same energetic field, right, So
they don't have to be thinking the same thing. Right.
(09:00):
So if you're in partnership, you don't have to be
thinking the same thing as your partner.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Right.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
If you're in a business partnership you have a really
close friendship, you don't have to be thinking the same
as your partner. But your relationship works best when you're
on the same page, right, When you're congruent, when you're supportive,
when you acknowledge the other person and what their dreams
(09:27):
and goals and sort of idiosyncrasies are, and they acknowledge yours,
that's the gift. And so just like your head in
your heart, it isn't about they have to be on
have the same desires, but they do have to be
supportive of each other so that there isn't any conflict.
(09:54):
Conflict isn't a bad thing. But when you're in the
business of being generous, right, and especially with being generous
with yourself, and especially with receiving, receiving money, receiving gifts,
receiving compliments, receiving kindness, receiving support, receiving friendship, right, receiving
(10:19):
And look, this is about receiving people exactly as they are.
When you are in the business of receiving or you're
in the mode of receiving, it's so important to sort
of take a moment to see, are your head and
your heart congruent, Not same thought, not same desire, But
(10:45):
are they like got your back?
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Right?
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Like on a soccer team, right, my son loves football,
European football, right, And you know, if you wouldn't have
eleven players on the field, and all eleven plays are
playing the same position, right, but they work as a team.
And so in this spirit of generosity, it's about you
(11:09):
working as a team with you, with your body, with
your organs, with your finances, with your future, with your business,
with how you wake up in the morning. Right. You know.
I've been around a few people who have gone through
some massive life changes, and they're they're faced with the
(11:31):
adversity of what happens when somebody else comes into their field,
whether it's a new job or a new you know, relationship,
or a new partner or a new town. The adversity
of somebody else interjecting their energy into your field. Right,
(11:53):
And so it's like, you know, saying to my man
this morning, I was like, yeah, right, the difference of
what happens when you no longer have your own routine, right.
We all have routines, morning routines, evening routines, lunch routines,
(12:18):
orgout routines, yoga routines, right, And when those routines that
the routines that help you balance, integrate, be congruent with
your life. When you get out of balance with those routines,
it's like it can be quite challenging on the nervous system,
(12:38):
it can be quite challenging just on your whole field
in general. You know, I also have been going through
some life transitions and it's like, whoa, my routines are
being challenged. And what's been really cool for me is
to go, am I going to be at the effect?
(13:02):
Or am I going to expand my energy? To know
that I have the power to respond differently. We cannot
control our triggers, you know, I've so many times. I
was in grad school for somatic psychotherapy, right, so basically
(13:24):
therapy of the body and more like the psychology of
the body and.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
The importance of of getting yourself in alignment with your body,
of getting yourself in tune. And so when I was
in grad school, it was incredible to me what would
(13:56):
happen in sessions in classroom setting when we would go
into one on one sort of testing out the how
the energy would diminish if we started focusing on the problems.
And so all of us can get sort of you know,
(14:22):
darted off course, so to speak.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
But here's the deal. What if it's not, of course?
What if every little sort of side tracked moment that
happens is an invitation to realize that you have the
power to realign with you right. And so for those
(14:46):
of us who maybe grew up in traumatizing you know situations,
we tend to be very outward focused on where's the
other person? And depending on where the other person's mood is,
whether it be boss or family member or parent or child,
(15:06):
wherever that family member is functioning from, then I will
determine where I function from. And that can set you
up for a life of people pleasing. It can set
you up for a life of feeling at the effect
of everything. And so the more generous you are with you,
(15:27):
the more that you can align. So what do I
mean specifically by generous Waking up in the morning and
looking at yourself in the mirror and being like, Oh,
I am beautiful, Oh I really like my ass. And
I'm not saying fake it till you make it. I
am not saying that this is about true authenticity. Are
(15:48):
you willing to look yourself in the mirror, to look
yourself in the eyes, to wake up.
Speaker 5 (15:54):
Out of bed and be like, Oh, I'm doing fantastic today, right,
I'm doing fantastic.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Today, right. And so want to invite you to consider
that every moment of every day you have a chance
to be generous with you with your own energy. So
the compliments that you give others, the way you look
(16:26):
at someone, the way you admire your friends, or you
admire somebody, or you look at someone go wow, they
have such an incredible charisma. When was the last time
that you did that for yourself? When is the last time?
And you know what, the minute we say that, I
guess what comes up energetically It's like, Oh, my gosh,
(16:46):
that's boasting. Oh that's being egoic. Oh that's being too
big for my birches. Oh I'm not supposed to I'm
supposed to be humble, and yes, humble is also a
part of generosity. But this conversation with you and you,
nobody else needs to know what's going on and if
your life isn't working and the way that you like,
(17:09):
chances are you aren't being generous with you. You aren't
looking in the mirror compliment yourself. You aren't telling yourself
what a good job you did yesterday. One of my
favorite things to do, you know, is to go, Okay,
what did I do really well yesterday? Ooh, I complimented
this person, I reached out to this client, I did this,
(17:32):
I did that, I did this right. You kind of
set it up and then I go, okay, is there
anything that didn't work so great? And I'm going to
practice what I would do different. And so most people
are not taught and we're not taught this. I think
we should be in the school systems. We should be
taught finances. I think we should be taught business, and
(17:53):
I definitely think we should be taught energy and like
self talk, right, whatever you want to collect and what
most people on the planet aren't necessarily realizing. What chances
are you listening to this because you do know the
impact and the importance of really taking time to internal
(18:18):
internally support you, because nobody's going to be your biggest
cheerleader other than you. Now, with that being said, if
you start being your biggest cheerleader, if you know that
you're staying true to you, if you're following your dreams,
if you're living your best life, and it does not
(18:39):
matter what that is. One person's best life might be,
you know, skiing every day, right. One person's best life
might be traveling around the world. One person's best life
might be going home to their family, cooking for their family,
working a job that supports their family. No one can
(18:59):
tell you what your best life is, but you know.
And the way that you know if you're being generous
with you is if you start to go ah high five,
Oh yeah, I'm really Oh. I like the feeling of that.
I want to do more of that, right. I like
(19:21):
that I'm truthful with myself. I like that I stick
to my morals. I like that I have boundaries. Right.
And those people that grew up in we'll just call
it traumatic childhoods, you learn to look at your surroundings externally,
determine your energy based on who was in your surroundings,
(19:43):
and then you do everything you could to people please
the people in your surroundings so that then you could
be Okay. That's an exhausting way of living, and it
doesn't create generosity because now you have no time and
energy for you right, Whereas if you start to prioritize,
(20:06):
are your heart and your head congruent? Are you in
alignment with your dreams? Are you catching your negative self talk?
Are you rewiring your self talk into an energy or
perspective that is like giving you a compliment? That's like
opening the door to something?
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Now?
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Are you right? Opening that?
Speaker 3 (20:28):
So?
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Funny? I did a yoga class yesterday. We did a
whole bunch of new moves. My shoulders are so sore.
I'm like, what did I do? So the point is is,
what if there are ways, not just this holiday season,
but coming into a new year, that you could take
(20:50):
these small steps towards opening the door to being generous
with you? Right? This isn't once it right, once it works.
I was having a conversation with someone and we're trying
to resolve an issue and they said to me, you
know it's not going to be resolved overnight. I was like, ooh, right,
(21:14):
every day putting energy into right, into your own bucket,
every day putting energy into living your truth, into being aligned,
into saying yes to everything that you desire. So we're
going to continue to talk about generosity of spirit and
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how it relates to you and why it's so important.
So stay tuned and we'll be back.
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we are back and we're talking about generosity of spirit
and how it relates to you. And I kind of
wanted to take the next part of this in a
bit of a different direction. And to all of you
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entrepreneurs out there, to all you business owners, to all
of you creating right in you're out there in the
world doing something that hopefully you're passionate about, that you
care deeply about, that you think makes an impact in
the world, or you know makes an impact in the world.
And are you acknowledging the difference that you make in
(25:01):
the world? Right? You may not be at the level
of success that you want to be at. You may,
you know, feel like you're behind. But the question to
you is are you feeling fulfilled and satisfied when you
wake up in the mornings and are you feeling fulfilled
(25:24):
and satisfied when you go to bed at night?
Speaker 7 (25:27):
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Speaker 2 (25:27):
You want to really take a look at this, this idea.
And so, you know, I was in the entrepreneurial world
for a long time and I love business. It fascinates me.
I was in the online world of traveling around in
the world, teaching classes all over and you know, I
kind of just like bulldozed through building my business in
(25:51):
the beginning. And for me, in the beginning, if I
could do it all over again, one of the things
that I would do differently in the beginning, no regrets, right,
But what I might do different in building my business
is that I would take the time to value relationships
(26:15):
even more. And so for those of you out there
that might be all about the sales, are all about
you know, getting the client, or all about you know,
filling your classes, or all about whatever what effort is
selling your product. What if in the spirit of generosity,
(26:38):
it is about prioritizing the relationship. Prioritizing the connection, because the.
Speaker 7 (26:46):
Greatest relationship that you ever have in the world is
the one you have with you and your body, greatest
relationship in the world, most important, most valuable. If you
don't nurture that one right and you start, your health
starts to be compromised, You start getting sick, your relationship
starts to get compromised, but most importantly, your health gets compromised, right,
(27:11):
your energy levels, your vitality, your charisma. And so this
generosity of spirit is also are you in.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Business right to give? Now? I'm not saying not to receive,
but sometimes valuing a human being.
Speaker 8 (27:34):
Right this week, I was like, oh my goodness, all
of these companies are now adopting systems in which you
never have to talk to a real person, and I
don't know about you.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
Right. It might save money, right in terms of not
being able to keep step on. But if it's not personable, right,
that company or product or experience might.
Speaker 7 (28:04):
Right, might lose its oomph if it doesn't value.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
The human connection. No one will ever be able to
take away the power of your heart, the power of
of all, like all the mitochondria in your body, right,
the sheer power of mitochondria. Right, No one can take
(28:32):
away your power. No one can diminish your truth, but
people can try. And here's the deal. Are you letting them?
Are you, you know, focused on your external environment to
keep the peace that all of a sudden you don't
have peace?
Speaker 3 (28:53):
Right?
Speaker 2 (28:54):
Really important? Yeah, it's so funny. Every time I look
at it, I look at the right. So on my website,
I have this masterclass and it's called the Life Awakening
Life Shift Awakening System. And for those of you that
have spent a lifetime of people, please in a lifetime
(29:14):
of scanning your environment, of lifetime of looking at external
circumstances to determine whether or not you are happy with
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(29:36):
So yeah, for all of you out there, it is
like there is no magic pill, there's no formula. But
what there is is your barometer of are you living
in alignment with your truth and in there? Are you
(29:58):
being generous? Are you giving yourself permission to rest? Are
you giving yourself permission to take a bath? And when
you're doing that, are you in the bathtub ridiculing your body,
picking at your skin, worrying about what your body likes?
Or are you like, wow, body, you are an incredible body? Right?
(30:21):
Wow you have you know, incredible blood flow or a
strong voice or beautiful teeth? Right? When was the last
time that you stood in the mirror and you complimented
your features? And when is the last time that you
wrote down in your journal all your positive attributes. Most people,
(30:46):
when asked to come up with all the things they'd
like to change about themselves, they get ten, twenty, thirty,
forty fifty things that they can list about things they'd
like to change. And then when people ask, okay, name
three things about you, right, they wouldn't change. Name three
things about you that you know are nurturing are this generosity,
(31:10):
And most people cannot come up with three things, pretty astonishing,
and so tis the season for all of you to
be generous, to be kind, to love the clothes you're wearing,
put on lipstick, like, take an effort to make yourself
(31:30):
feel good, not for other people, but for you. Take
the time to you know, prep yourself in the mirror.
And one of what was the move I was doing
in my somatic classes. So I teach some somatic classes
in Aspen Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays currently, and we did
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this move and everyone's like, oh, I feel stronger, Oh
I feel like better, and oh it was laying on
the floor. So it's a particular move where you lay
on the floor and you press your knees into your
palms and you press your palms into your knees, but
you want to keep your legs straight and you're laying
on the ground, and if you do it long enough,
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your ribs can be sore. Right, actually, my quads are
a little bit sore today. But what this does is
it amps up your trusting you and the most important
thing you can do to move forward in this lifetime
is to trust you, and so start not only physically right,
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but what about the emotional piece, right, the emotional piece.
Are you being generous with your kindness?
Speaker 3 (32:45):
Right?
Speaker 2 (32:46):
You know, I was looking at the other day. I've
gotten a lot better at this. But I caught myself
a couple of years ago driving in one of the
most beautiful places in the world, and I was in
my car like a stuck in traffic, right, And it
was every day. I went, wait a second, If I
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know anything, I know that I have the power to
respond differently to what's happening. I don't have to be
at the effect of it. I always have choice. And
the truth is that each of you always always has choice.
Speaker 3 (33:23):
Right.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
So maybe you buy yourself some perfume, right, or some
concert tickets or a plane ticket, right. Maybe that's you
being generous and self caring for you. Maybe being generous
is waking up in the morning and thinking of three
things that light you up, right, three things, and then
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tomorrow do the exact same thing. Think about three things
so light you up. And so when we're faced with adversity,
we tend to go down the rabbit hole of fixing.
And you said this many times there's nothing to fix,
there's nothing to change, and there's nothing wrong with you.
There is no fixing right and when you get that,
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you truly get there is no fixing, you will have
a lot more energy to receive you and to receive
the gift of you. So, my friends, during this holiday season,
I wish you the best now and always, wishing you joy,
wishing your magic, wishing you sunshine, wishing you that the
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spirit of generosity fail your heart and fail your soul.
So I do want to thank you for listening in,
for being here as always, and wishing you all very
very happy holidays wherever you are in the world. It
says the season.
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Speaker 2 (00:53):
All right, my magical friends, so welcome. Yes, so today
we are going to be talking about, right, just really
the spirit of generosity. And I have got my notes
here because I always yep, so the spirit of generosity,
why it's so important, and particularly in this time of year,
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why it might be so important specifically for you, and
how to hone in on that generosity. And so give
you a really simple example. Yesterday I was buying my
Christmas tree. Right, it's that time of the year the holidays,
and holidays can bring out pain, they can bring out sadness,
they can bring out celebration, but they can also bring
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out a spirit of generosity. And yesterday I'm buying a
tree decorating it tomorrow with my son. And this sweet
woman probably weighed ninety pounds. Was had been, you know,
in full ski year outside at this tree form or
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like outside the market, and she was so sweet. She said, oh,
I'll set this one aside for you. It was like
the perfect tree. I'll you know, I'll do this. Why
don't you pull your car around, I'll put it in
for you. You don't you know. She was like half
my size and she's like, I'll carry the tree. I'll
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do it. It's too heavy for you. And I was like,
oh my god, you're hilarious. And you know, we got
done and she put the tree in and all this stuff,
and I just like went into my car and I
was like, wow, she just like she's been out here
all day long. She's friendly, she has a smile on
her face. She made my life so much easier. And
I you know, hand her a twenty dollars bill and
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she was like, oh my god, Oh my god. I
was like, thank you, Merry Christmas. And she just like
you could see the look on her face. And so
I'm going to take the spear of generosity in a
bit of a different direction. So, yes, you can contribute
to others financially. You can give gifts. You know, you
can give compliments. And what I really wanted to hone
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in today is are you being generous with you? Are
you taking time to nurture you? Are you feeding yourself
thoughts and feelings and ideas and dreams that actually acknowledge
the gift you are. And so if you see someone
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on the street and you admire their beauty or their outfit,
or their smile or their hair, you immediately think of
all their brilliance. Right when we meet people, those first
few interactions, especially those first few moments of meeting someone,
it's like you resonate or you don't, not right, not wrong.
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But when you resonate with someone in those first few
moments of meeting them, is like you, all you can
see is their brilliance, their brightness, their kindness, their beauty,
their careerisma. You know, you see the magic in them, right,
and they see the magic in you. And yet every
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day when we're faced with ourselves in the mirror, in
a mirror right here, hello, when we're faced with seeing
ourselves in the mirror. We're typically not generous. We're not generous.
We undersell ourselves with our gifts. We you know, cut
ourselves down. We like, you know, maybe we can plain
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about our finances, maybe we can plain about our job,
maybe we compare ourselves to other people and their lives.
And that's not generosity. That actually takes away from your gift,
from your spirit, from what's alive in you. And so
this holiday season, I wanted to invite you to consider
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what being generous with you would look like, what being
generous would you with you would feel like. So I'm
not saying God and spend money on yourself to be
generous with you. Generosity is are you paying attention to
the kindness that you are thinking, that you're feeling, and
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that you're speaking to yourself when no one else is around,
Because that's the generosity, And so pay attention. Right when
we start paying attention to our thoughts, we will be
quite surprised. Right, excuse me, no energy on that right
(05:37):
as you guys all remember I tend to yawn when
i'm when we're moving some energy, and so there's a
lot of energy up for you know, being generous. And
so if you want someone to be generous with you,
to be kind to you, to be supportive of you,
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to kind of have your back. You have to have
your own back first, right. If you want someone to
give you compliments, you want to compliment yourself. You know.
I remember years ago when I was first starting out
really in the public eye. Starting out, so I had
been kind of a closet energy intuitive, a closet healer
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or a closet or you know, energy worker. And when
I started to go really public, and you know, i'd
be in crowds of hundreds of people, I really wanted
to be acknowledged, like for being good. Well, I was like,
nobody's acknowledging me. And it's funny because people come up
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to you and say, did you hear everyone talk about you?
I was like, no, I didn't hear a word, and
they're like, are you kidding me. Everyone's talking about the
impact that you're making. Everyone's talking about the difference that
you're gonna do that today. Everyone's talking about the difference
that you're being and I so wanted that validation. This
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is what's crazy. I literally couldn't hear it even when
people were telling me. And so the point being is
if you're not going to validate you, if you're not
going to acknowledge you, if you're not going to give
yourself comliments, if you're not going to look in the
mirror and see the brightness and the magic and the
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joy and the charisma and the beauty and the quirkiness
and the you know, the brilliance and your ways of thinking.
If you're not going to do it for yourself, it's
really hard to expect other people to do it. And
so generosity also is about this idea that giving without
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being acknowledged, right, giving without needing to get something in return,
really important because the value of a gift right is
to give. I've had people recently who have been like Catherine,
you're such a giver that you sometimes are so worried
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about other people that you sometimes don't take time for yourself.
And it's true. Right, I go do yoga, I ski,
I meditate, I try to really, but when somebody else
is giving me energy, or giving me a gift, or
giving me a compliment, or giving me attention, my first
instinct is to want to give right back. But generosity
(08:37):
with yourself is about are you willing to receive what's
being given to you. And so when you write heart
and head congruence, when you get your heart and your
head on the same wavelength, same energetic field, right, So
they don't have to be thinking the same thing. Right.
(09:00):
So if you're in partnership, you don't have to be
thinking the same thing as your partner.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Right.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
If you're in a business partnership you have a really
close friendship, you don't have to be thinking the same
as your partner. But your relationship works best when you're
on the same page, right, When you're congruent, when you're supportive,
when you acknowledge the other person and what their dreams
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and goals and sort of idiosyncrasies are, and they acknowledge yours,
that's the gift. And so just like your head in
your heart, it isn't about they have to be on
have the same desires, but they do have to be
supportive of each other so that there isn't any conflict.
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Conflict isn't a bad thing. But when you're in the
business of being generous, right, and especially with being generous
with yourself, and especially with receiving, receiving money, receiving gifts,
receiving compliments, receiving kindness, receiving support, receiving friendship, right, receiving
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And look, this is about receiving people exactly as they are.
When you are in the business of receiving or you're
in the mode of receiving, it's so important to sort
of take a moment to see, are your head and
your heart congruent, Not same thought, not same desire, But
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are they like got your back?
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Right?
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Like on a soccer team, right, my son loves football,
European football, right, And you know, if you wouldn't have
eleven players on the field, and all eleven plays are
playing the same position, right, but they work as a team.
And so in this spirit of generosity, it's about you
(11:09):
working as a team with you, with your body, with
your organs, with your finances, with your future, with your business,
with how you wake up in the morning. Right. You know.
I've been around a few people who have gone through
some massive life changes, and they're they're faced with the
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adversity of what happens when somebody else comes into their field,
whether it's a new job or a new you know, relationship,
or a new partner or a new town. The adversity
of somebody else interjecting their energy into your field. Right,
(11:53):
And so it's like, you know, saying to my man
this morning, I was like, yeah, right, the difference of
what happens when you no longer have your own routine, right.
We all have routines, morning routines, evening routines, lunch routines,
(12:18):
orgout routines, yoga routines, right, And when those routines that
the routines that help you balance, integrate, be congruent with
your life. When you get out of balance with those routines,
it's like it can be quite challenging on the nervous system,
(12:38):
it can be quite challenging just on your whole field
in general. You know, I also have been going through
some life transitions and it's like, whoa, my routines are
being challenged. And what's been really cool for me is
to go, am I going to be at the effect?
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Or am I going to expand my energy? To know
that I have the power to respond differently. We cannot
control our triggers, you know, I've so many times. I
was in grad school for somatic psychotherapy, right, so basically
(13:24):
therapy of the body and more like the psychology of
the body and.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
The importance of of getting yourself in alignment with your body,
of getting yourself in tune. And so when I was
in grad school, it was incredible to me what would
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happen in sessions in classroom setting when we would go
into one on one sort of testing out the how
the energy would diminish if we started focusing on the problems.
And so all of us can get sort of you know,
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darted off course, so to speak.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
But here's the deal. What if it's not, of course?
What if every little sort of side tracked moment that
happens is an invitation to realize that you have the
power to realign with you right. And so for those
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of us who maybe grew up in traumatizing you know situations,
we tend to be very outward focused on where's the
other person? And depending on where the other person's mood is,
whether it be boss or family member or parent or child,
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wherever that family member is functioning from, then I will
determine where I function from. And that can set you
up for a life of people pleasing. It can set
you up for a life of feeling at the effect
of everything. And so the more generous you are with you,
(15:27):
the more that you can align. So what do I
mean specifically by generous Waking up in the morning and
looking at yourself in the mirror and being like, Oh,
I am beautiful, Oh I really like my ass. And
I'm not saying fake it till you make it. I
am not saying that this is about true authenticity. Are
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you willing to look yourself in the mirror, to look
yourself in the eyes, to wake up.
Speaker 5 (15:54):
Out of bed and be like, Oh, I'm doing fantastic today, right,
I'm doing fantastic.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Today, right. And so want to invite you to consider
that every moment of every day you have a chance
to be generous with you with your own energy. So
the compliments that you give others, the way you look
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at someone, the way you admire your friends, or you
admire somebody, or you look at someone go wow, they
have such an incredible charisma. When was the last time
that you did that for yourself? When is the last time?
And you know what, the minute we say that, I
guess what comes up energetically It's like, Oh, my gosh,
(16:46):
that's boasting. Oh that's being egoic. Oh that's being too
big for my birches. Oh I'm not supposed to I'm
supposed to be humble, and yes, humble is also a
part of generosity. But this conversation with you and you,
nobody else needs to know what's going on and if
your life isn't working and the way that you like,
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chances are you aren't being generous with you. You aren't
looking in the mirror compliment yourself. You aren't telling yourself
what a good job you did yesterday. One of my
favorite things to do, you know, is to go, Okay,
what did I do really well yesterday? Ooh, I complimented
this person, I reached out to this client, I did this,
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I did that, I did this right. You kind of
set it up and then I go, okay, is there
anything that didn't work so great? And I'm going to
practice what I would do different. And so most people
are not taught and we're not taught this. I think
we should be in the school systems. We should be
taught finances. I think we should be taught business, and
(17:53):
I definitely think we should be taught energy and like
self talk, right, whatever you want to collect and what
most people on the planet aren't necessarily realizing. What chances
are you listening to this because you do know the
impact and the importance of really taking time to internal
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internally support you, because nobody's going to be your biggest
cheerleader other than you. Now, with that being said, if
you start being your biggest cheerleader, if you know that
you're staying true to you, if you're following your dreams,
if you're living your best life, and it does not
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matter what that is. One person's best life might be,
you know, skiing every day, right. One person's best life
might be traveling around the world. One person's best life
might be going home to their family, cooking for their family,
working a job that supports their family. No one can
(18:59):
tell you what your best life is, but you know.
And the way that you know if you're being generous
with you is if you start to go ah high five,
Oh yeah, I'm really Oh. I like the feeling of that.
I want to do more of that, right. I like
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that I'm truthful with myself. I like that I stick
to my morals. I like that I have boundaries. Right.
And those people that grew up in we'll just call
it traumatic childhoods, you learn to look at your surroundings externally,
determine your energy based on who was in your surroundings,
(19:43):
and then you do everything you could to people please
the people in your surroundings so that then you could
be Okay. That's an exhausting way of living, and it
doesn't create generosity because now you have no time and
energy for you right, Whereas if you start to prioritize,
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are your heart and your head congruent? Are you in
alignment with your dreams? Are you catching your negative self talk?
Are you rewiring your self talk into an energy or
perspective that is like giving you a compliment? That's like
opening the door to something?
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Now?
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Are you right? Opening that?
Speaker 3 (20:28):
So?
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Funny? I did a yoga class yesterday. We did a
whole bunch of new moves. My shoulders are so sore.
I'm like, what did I do? So the point is is,
what if there are ways, not just this holiday season,
but coming into a new year, that you could take
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these small steps towards opening the door to being generous
with you? Right? This isn't once it right, once it works.
I was having a conversation with someone and we're trying
to resolve an issue and they said to me, you
know it's not going to be resolved overnight. I was like, ooh, right,
(21:14):
every day putting energy into right, into your own bucket,
every day putting energy into living your truth, into being aligned,
into saying yes to everything that you desire. So we're
going to continue to talk about generosity of spirit and
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how it relates to you and why it's so important.
So stay tuned and we'll be back.
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we are back and we're talking about generosity of spirit
and how it relates to you. And I kind of
wanted to take the next part of this in a
bit of a different direction. And to all of you
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entrepreneurs out there, to all you business owners, to all
of you creating right in you're out there in the
world doing something that hopefully you're passionate about, that you
care deeply about, that you think makes an impact in
the world, or you know makes an impact in the world.
And are you acknowledging the difference that you make in
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the world? Right? You may not be at the level
of success that you want to be at. You may,
you know, feel like you're behind. But the question to
you is are you feeling fulfilled and satisfied when you
wake up in the mornings and are you feeling fulfilled
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and satisfied when you go to bed at night?
Speaker 7 (25:27):
Right?
Speaker 2 (25:27):
You want to really take a look at this, this idea.
And so, you know, I was in the entrepreneurial world
for a long time and I love business. It fascinates me.
I was in the online world of traveling around in
the world, teaching classes all over and you know, I
kind of just like bulldozed through building my business in
(25:51):
the beginning. And for me, in the beginning, if I
could do it all over again, one of the things
that I would do differently in the beginning, no regrets, right,
But what I might do different in building my business
is that I would take the time to value relationships
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even more. And so for those of you out there
that might be all about the sales, are all about
you know, getting the client, or all about you know,
filling your classes, or all about whatever what effort is
selling your product. What if in the spirit of generosity,
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it is about prioritizing the relationship. Prioritizing the connection, because the.
Speaker 7 (26:46):
Greatest relationship that you ever have in the world is
the one you have with you and your body, greatest
relationship in the world, most important, most valuable. If you
don't nurture that one right and you start, your health
starts to be compromised, You start getting sick, your relationship
starts to get compromised, but most importantly, your health gets compromised, right,
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your energy levels, your vitality, your charisma. And so this
generosity of spirit is also are you in.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Business right to give? Now? I'm not saying not to receive,
but sometimes valuing a human being.
Speaker 8 (27:34):
Right this week, I was like, oh my goodness, all
of these companies are now adopting systems in which you
never have to talk to a real person, and I
don't know about you.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
Right. It might save money, right in terms of not
being able to keep step on. But if it's not personable, right,
that company or product or experience might.
Speaker 7 (28:04):
Right, might lose its oomph if it doesn't value.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
The human connection. No one will ever be able to
take away the power of your heart, the power of
of all, like all the mitochondria in your body, right,
the sheer power of mitochondria. Right, No one can take
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away your power. No one can diminish your truth, but
people can try. And here's the deal. Are you letting them?
Are you, you know, focused on your external environment to
keep the peace that all of a sudden you don't
have peace?
Speaker 3 (28:53):
Right?
Speaker 2 (28:54):
Really important? Yeah, it's so funny. Every time I look
at it, I look at the right. So on my website,
I have this masterclass and it's called the Life Awakening
Life Shift Awakening System. And for those of you that
have spent a lifetime of people, please in a lifetime
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of scanning your environment, of lifetime of looking at external
circumstances to determine whether or not you are happy with
you who it's a dousy I highly recommend the master
class It is free, by the way, and I also
have a free nervous system healing your nervous system download.
(29:36):
So yeah, for all of you out there, it is
like there is no magic pill, there's no formula. But
what there is is your barometer of are you living
in alignment with your truth and in there? Are you
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being generous? Are you giving yourself permission to rest? Are
you giving yourself permission to take a bath? And when
you're doing that, are you in the bathtub ridiculing your body,
picking at your skin, worrying about what your body likes?
Or are you like, wow, body, you are an incredible body? Right?
(30:21):
Wow you have you know, incredible blood flow or a
strong voice or beautiful teeth? Right? When was the last
time that you stood in the mirror and you complimented
your features? And when is the last time that you
wrote down in your journal all your positive attributes. Most people,
(30:46):
when asked to come up with all the things they'd
like to change about themselves, they get ten, twenty, thirty,
forty fifty things that they can list about things they'd
like to change. And then when people ask, okay, name
three things about you, right, they wouldn't change. Name three
things about you that you know are nurturing are this generosity,
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And most people cannot come up with three things, pretty astonishing,
and so tis the season for all of you to
be generous, to be kind, to love the clothes you're wearing,
put on lipstick, like, take an effort to make yourself
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feel good, not for other people, but for you. Take
the time to you know, prep yourself in the mirror.
And one of what was the move I was doing
in my somatic classes. So I teach some somatic classes
in Aspen Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays currently, and we did
(31:52):
this move and everyone's like, oh, I feel stronger, Oh
I feel like better, and oh it was laying on
the floor. So it's a particular move where you lay
on the floor and you press your knees into your
palms and you press your palms into your knees, but
you want to keep your legs straight and you're laying
on the ground, and if you do it long enough,
(32:14):
your ribs can be sore. Right, actually, my quads are
a little bit sore today. But what this does is
it amps up your trusting you and the most important
thing you can do to move forward in this lifetime
is to trust you, and so start not only physically right,
(32:36):
but what about the emotional piece, right, the emotional piece.
Are you being generous with your kindness?
Speaker 3 (32:45):
Right?
Speaker 2 (32:46):
You know, I was looking at the other day. I've
gotten a lot better at this. But I caught myself
a couple of years ago driving in one of the
most beautiful places in the world, and I was in
my car like a stuck in traffic, right, And it
was every day. I went, wait a second, If I
(33:07):
know anything, I know that I have the power to
respond differently to what's happening. I don't have to be
at the effect of it. I always have choice. And
the truth is that each of you always always has choice.
Speaker 3 (33:23):
Right.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
So maybe you buy yourself some perfume, right, or some
concert tickets or a plane ticket, right. Maybe that's you
being generous and self caring for you. Maybe being generous
is waking up in the morning and thinking of three
things that light you up, right, three things, and then
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tomorrow do the exact same thing. Think about three things
so light you up. And so when we're faced with adversity,
we tend to go down the rabbit hole of fixing.
And you said this many times there's nothing to fix,
there's nothing to change, and there's nothing wrong with you.
There is no fixing right and when you get that,
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you truly get there is no fixing, you will have
a lot more energy to receive you and to receive
the gift of you. So, my friends, during this holiday season,
I wish you the best now and always, wishing you joy,
wishing your magic, wishing you sunshine, wishing you that the
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spirit of generosity fail your heart and fail your soul.
So I do want to thank you for listening in,
for being here as always, and wishing you all very
very happy holidays wherever you are in the world. It
says the season.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
Catherine is not a medical practitioner nor licensed there therapist.
She has strong opinions and will express them, and truly
believes that you are your best advocate for any and
every area of your life. If you need medical advice,
please consult your physician.
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