Nov. 23, 2022
Angel Latterall: Gratitude Is the Foundation for Everything
Prepare to be uplifted and inspired in our latest podcast episode, "Gratitude Is the Foundation for Everything," featuring the extraordinary Angel Latterall. In this captivating conversation, we delve into the transformative power of gratitude and how it can shape our lives in remarkable ways. Join us as Angel Latterall, a true beacon of positivity and mindfulness, shares her journey and the profound impact that practicing gratitude has had on her life. In this heartfelt discussion, she explo...
Prepare to be uplifted and inspired in our latest podcast episode, "Gratitude Is the Foundation for Everything," featuring the extraordinary Angel Latterall. In this captivating conversation, we delve into the transformative power of gratitude and how it can shape our lives in remarkable ways.
Join us as Angel Latterall, a true beacon of positivity and mindfulness, shares her journey and the profound impact that practicing gratitude has had on her life. In this heartfelt discussion, she explores how gratitude has become the cornerstone of her daily existence, guiding her through challenges and triumphs.
Discover the practical strategies and mindset shifts Angel employs to maintain an attitude of gratitude, even in the face of adversity. You'll gain valuable insights into how cultivating gratitude can transform your perspective, foster resilience, and ultimately lead to a more fulfilled and purposeful life.
This episode serves as a reminder that gratitude can be a game-changer even in the most trying times. Angel's heartfelt wisdom and experiences will inspire you to embrace the power of gratitude, offering a fresh perspective on the world around you.
Tune in to this enlightening and heartwarming episode and learn how gratitude can be the foundation for everything in your life.
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Hi everyone.
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Hey everyone.
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Today we have another special guest.
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Her name is Angel Latterall.
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I'm going to read Angel's bio and then we're going to get right into some great conversation about gratitude.
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So about Angel.
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She's a woman of many hats with one mission, empowerment, and transformation of the individual and things they impact.
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All of her work is geared at her clients being able to see where they have choice, options, autonomy, and responsibility in their life.
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Knowing these things is the path to a fulfilled life and success in any endeavor.
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She specializes in transformation.
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Transformation of the person, the individual, their estate planning, and their businesses.
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Every individual's environment is a reflection of their inner self.
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If you wanna live a joyful life of purpose, create peace of mind for your family, have a more successful business or an abundant life, she can work with you.
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So welcome Angel.
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I'm so glad you can join us today.
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Yeah, so glad to be here.
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So we had chatted prior, because I try to have at least a 15 minute conversation with all of my guests to let them know what the show's about and, I loved Angel because, when we were talking about what she could talk about today, she chose gratitude.
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Which I think is such an important part of living in an abundant full life.
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So, my first question for you were you always grateful or was this a practice you learned?
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That's the great question.
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In my memory, I feel like I've always been grateful but I believe it truly started, with my Buddhist practice, which I did start quite young.
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I was researching Buddhism as a teenager and at 18, I actually found a Buddhist organization.
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That was a lay people based that you could practice in your own home and do things every day.
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And the foundation not only as chanting in meditation, but looking at every challenge in life as an opportunity, and, having gratitude even for, the proverbial crap that hits you in your life.
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And let's call it attitude training, that I, really ensconced myself and dove into.
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I did transform me from being a pretty sarcastic glass half empty, young person into more of a glass half full in how hardships can make you stronger.
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And, from that basis then began growing more of my abundance mindset, mentality and, really learning not only to look at things that, that bad things as opportunities, but to recognize all of the things that you have, in your life and how you can be grateful for them and how that just continues to build on itself.
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I guess probably since a late teenager, I've had this gratitude practice in one shape or another.
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That's awesome.
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I like what you're talking about here because it's easy to be grateful when everything's going your way.
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It is the easiest time.
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It's like, oh, this is wonderful.
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I'm so grateful and then life hits because life hits us all.
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And so then you're like, oh, but I think that there's something to the ability of being grateful even in what seems to be a hard time.
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I'd love for you to share with our listeners, because I know that people struggle with this, especially if they're more negative as a person, as a whole.
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So, let's talk about when life is hitting you, how you can still be grateful?
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I think that's a great question, especially when you're in the thick of it.
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You know, to go into to why me?
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But the easiest way is to daily life is a practice.
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So on all shapes or forms.
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Just every day we're practicing life.
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And so with a gratitude practice, when we're in the thick of it, literally pausing to take a breath.
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And even just pick one thing that you can be grateful for.
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It could be the simplest thing.
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It could be I'm grateful, I have socks.
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I'm grateful I have a roof over my head.
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I'm grateful I have a friend, I'm grateful I have, fill in the blank and literally stopping and saying out loud or writing that down can change your neuro transmitters such that it changed where your mind is going and it can reroute and redirect the energy that can be a downward spiral.
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There are meditation practices, there are chanting practices.
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There's things you can do to support that but the most simple, practical way when everything is not feeling so good is to find one thing even to focus on.
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And if you have difficulty doing that, keep practicing.
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It's try, the old saying of smile until you feel better.
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There's something else that science says that when we smile, it changes how we feel, and then we are able to think.
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And so with a gratitude practice, even though things aren't feeling positive, If you focus on even one thing, it does help looking at our challenges as opportunities.
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It's easy for me to say on the outside looking in though I have had plenty of opportunities in my life to practice this.
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There's a lot of programming that tells us that we have to be perfect or that we can't fail.
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But looking at what does have us feeling negative, what is it?
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Is it because you failed?
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And if it is, then great, you actually failed forward because you learned something, right?
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So there's the opportunity to silver lining the diamond in the rough, so to speak.
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Or are you feeling negative because of something that happened in the past?
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And then again, looking at what can I learn from this?
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How did I grow?
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Cause our challenges make us stronger.
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Though, to be honest, without some kind of philosophical base, it is harder to take that.
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What is this awful thing that's happening to me?
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And shift it.
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But it's not impossible.
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And again, it's just practice.
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Do our best to practice, find one thing to be grateful for, or find the silver lining in the negative thing.
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So, that brings me to another question.
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My spiritual coach would say, and I always thought of it as a negative and it took me the practice of being grateful to realize that it wasn't.
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She would say, it's hard for the universe to give you something if you're not grateful for what you have.
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And that's what we're talking about, right?
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Because it feels like when you're in the thick of it things pop up but it's because that's all you're looking at.
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That which we fixate on persists, and that which we fixate on actually also expands.
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So if we can fixate on the positives, the things we have versus the things we don't have, that's gonna start expanding in our life and the viewpoint, whereas the negative down road spiral, it also happens.
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I think it's in the book, feel the Fear and do it Anyway.
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Where they talk about some brain research about how, people seem to think it's easier for humans to be negative but actually there's as much, out there saying that's a learned thought pattern as much as positive thinking as a learned thought pattern.
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So people feel the fear and fear stops them because, they think the worst case scenario is gonna happen, but what is the worst case scenario?
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Maybe you don't succeed at whatever it is, but the bear's not gonna eat you.
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So we have to reprogram ourselves.
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Okay.
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Yeah.
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There's fear there.
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There's something there that's stopping me.
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There's a negative emotion there, but let's do it.
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And see what happens.
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And that's having a positive thought of thinking the best.
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What's the worst that could happen is well, I fail forward.
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I fall on my face, it's still five feet further than I was before I fell.
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That's actually really good.
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I think that's, idea if I fall and I'm closer still.
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And you hear about Einstein how many times he failed before he perfected.
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I think it was the light bulb.
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We'll go with the light bulb, he failed a lot before he got in And, I listen to, Esther Hicks or Abraham Hicks a lot and and I love that idea When I know what I don't want, then I can know what I do want.
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So there's this idea if I see a failure and I know that's not what I want, but at least I know that, right?
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And that's part of the gratitude process is I may not be grateful for everything, but I can look and sift through what's really important to me.
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A wonderful tea bag gave me some serious wisdom one day, gratitude is not about what is received, it's about how you receive what is there.
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That's really profound.
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Yeah, I've kept this little tea bag because even in my years of gratitude practice, it was a new perspective on that, because a lot of the time we're grateful for the things we are receiving at that moment in time.
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I'm receiving love, I'm receiving a gift, I'm receiving sunlight but it's not about what we're getting right now.
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It's about recognizing what we already have in our.
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That's awesome.
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So do you think there is, an energetic shift in a person when they practice gratitude?
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Oh, absolutely.
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Absolutely.
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Not to get off on a total other subject, but the Laws of Hermetics, which there's seven principles, those seventh principles, they're all combined.
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The first one is that all is mind, which we think and perceive creates our reality and then everything has a vibration.
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So if we think gratitude is a high vibration state and thus, creating a reality where we have abundance because we recognize all that we already have then you're raising your vibration and shifting your vibration and vibrating higher and in a higher frequency, which then propels you to generate more high vibration.
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And that therein is energy.
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As we look at everything, everything has a vibration, and that is what energy does.
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Think about how different things feel, anybody's, into crystals or stones, you start sensing those things and we too, as humans, have that vibration.
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And if you're around a serious negative Nelly and you're like, oh, you're bringing me down, well, literally their vibration is down.
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And thus if we're energy sensitive people and we don't have the boundaries to be like, oh, that's theirs not mine.
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It might literally bring you down whereas a high vibrating person with a gratitude and abundance mindset has the ability to bring that energy into the equation because they're also uplifting themselves.
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That's a good point.
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And I was having this conversation, with another guest about the exhaustion one can feel when they go near a negative person.
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You literally walk away feeling like, what just happened?
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So, that brings me to the next question, We're all part of this world and unless we're living in a cave, which then, you know, not that you can't be in a bad mood by yourself in a cave, although it's amazing how good my days are when I don't deal with a lot of people.
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Do you ever notice that?
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You're like, I feel great.
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Oh, I haven't talked to anybody yet but that's not reality, especially if you have a business, you're talking to people.
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So how do you learn how to separate out what's yours and what's there so that you can keep gratitude and your vibration up?
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Yeah, it's definitely been a journey.
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As I said, I was, I'm a very empathetic person and I feel other people's stuff a lot.
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Or I used to especially when I was a young child, if someone was anger angry around me, it literally felt like I was being stabbed in the eye.
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I had a physical feeling from it.
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I took on other people's stuff which made me sick, it made me unhappy.
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I actually had an eating disorder as actually a young child.
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And it wasn't until my Buddhist practice and meditation and regular raising my vibration that I was able to overcome that.
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That was actually the first step where I started learning about what's mine and what's theirs.
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Because if I could raise my vibration through chanting and meditation, I started feeling better, but then I could notice if I was around somebody who wasn't, high on life so to speak, I could feel the difference and then realize okay, well, oh, I'm here and I did that, and then they're there and that, that's not me.
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So that was the first part of my journey and through now years of metaphysical study and practice, becoming a healer myself and a spiritual guide, and practicing, daily gratitude.
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But also daily rituals where I set space around myself.
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I set what's called a magic circle to do and pull in positive energy and work within that.
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That keeps negative energy out.
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It allows there to be positive energy within.
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And literally learning how to set Metaphysical boundaries became clear.
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How to keep things out of my sphere that aren't mine, as well as, keep my own stuff up so the learning that I have done through the esoteric teachings of both learning Herbamedics and, studying with the modern mystery school to become a spiritual guide and daily personal practices has been probably the most effective in learning that boundary so that I am not, physically affected by other people's stuff.
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And it's why you get so tired going into crowds and things.
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It's like you're walking through other people's aura and stuff and if someone's projecting their negativity, you can literally be slimed with it.
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And so let me go and sage myself and do meditative practices to clear, or in my case, I'll go to another practitioner and be like, Hey, can you do a cord cutting or to some type of clearing practice to get other people's stuff off me.
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I recommend regular cord cuttings, especially for any of us that are in the service industry, or if you're just going out and being around people because we pick up other people's stuff, even if we're practicing clearly that's yours that is not mine.
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It's both mental being clear like that, cause people get really angry at you, but What I've learned as I've grown good boundaries, I'm like, oh, you're really upset.
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But there's nothing I can do about it, so I'm not gonna even feel that about it, which piss people off even more when they want you to be picking up what they're projecting.
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It's really great for you when you're clear, like, oh yeah, that's, too bad you're really upset about all of your opinions.
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But they're not mine to take on or be concerned about.
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So there's that mental exercise of the boundaries and then there's the physical boundaries and literally learning how to set physical boundaries so that you, when you go out among people not swimming in everybody's stuff, and you can be physically clear about what is yours, and what is someone elses.
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So I know there's probably listeners out there going, how long did it take you to get there?
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Can I get there tomorrow?
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Because there are so many people who still take on other people's stuff, but I think there's levels too, and I'm sure you'll agree.
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How you take on your family stuff is very different than somebody you're not as intimately involved in.
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And another Question is, what is cord cutting and can you explain that process?
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Because I know for me, I've done it and it's been very helpful especially those, I've even had resentments against myself where I can just let that go and forgive based on that experience.
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Yeah.
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So, cord cutting there's different techniques from different lineages, but essentially what you're doing is you're taking, subconscious attachments, negative attachments that happen.
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We can get attachments with other people when we share food.
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For example, you sit down at a dinner, that's a way, like when you're intimate with somebody, you obviously create an attachment in a chord.
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When you empathize with somebody or sympathize with somebody, you could be creating a chord.
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And yes, if you have resentments, there's definitely chords.
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And so, cord cuttings, an energetic procedure, usually done with some type of athame which is made out of selenite or metal.
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But it's a symbolic cutting mechanism to shave away all of those cords so that you can be released.
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And then our friend Sage, which, white sage is always a thing helps clear the aura out.
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And so that cuts the cords, thus freeing you from the baggage that's there consciously or subconsciously.
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And it's great, especially if you're particularly suffering about a particular individual of cord cutting would be awesome.
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But as general spiritual hygiene, you can lose a lot of weight, on a regular basis, especially if you work in a service industry, whether it's massage therapists, social worker, teacher.
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Anything where you're dealing with people on a regular basis, I highly recommend that, metaphysical, cleanliness, so to speak, as a regular practice for your overall health.
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I gifted a cord cutting to a friend on a vacation the other day, and she was having, this argument with her husband about the kids and covid and she was, and she was with us and, they were in school and it was January, so the last, omnicron thing was going crazy.
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And so I was like, let's just do a quick cord cutting for you.
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And she's like, never done one of those before, and we did it.
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And that she was like, I just released all that.
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I'm gonna let my husband deal with it and I'm here and I'm gonna enjoy my vacation.
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And wow.
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She's like, I feel like I lost 50 pounds of weight.
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And so it is able to fix her whole attitude about it so she could enjoy being there and allow her husband to be empowered to work with the kids because, that's what they agreed to do.
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So she could be on this vacation.
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That's amazing because I think that's what happens, and as you talk about intimacy, we're intimate with some on all different levels, whether it's work or personal and going back to this idea of boundaries and not taking with you the situation, because it has ended.
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Because you do steal from your moments here and now when you're driving away from a place and you're like, oh, I should have, and you have all these conversations that are not real.
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They're not real, but suddenly they feel very real.
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Our thoughts create our reality so all of sudden we're in a thought cycle of all the shoulda, coulda, would've blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
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Like then all of a sudden it's real, and you got yourself into an angsty-anxious pile of ick.
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Of ick and it's not real.
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It feels real, but it's not real.
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But out of curiosity then I'll ask my next question because I do think that people are curious, you're talking about some very strong belief systems that require time to learn how to do that.
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I'm sure there are people who feel I tried and it didn't work.
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Or they think that they maxed out on their journey of it, so how long do you think it took to have your practice of gratitude and spiritual awareness to take and then how long has it felt like, that you've been in deeper levels of that?
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Because I think there's that initial something's not working.
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I'll try that.
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But I think sometimes people still give up in the process of that as opposed to following it through and seeing what that really could be.
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So with any practice, gratitude or otherwise, 30 days or 10 weeks is ideal to give it a try.
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Cause everything's a practice.
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And so the only way we get to perfection is to keep practicing.
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Being on the path itself is perfection.
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And so never giving up and one foot in front of the other on the path.
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So with any practice, spiritual practice, you do it for 10 weeks, you're gonna start seeing results in your life.
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And when I look at, when I first started chanting and doing the Buddhist meditation.
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They were like, just try it.
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And I was like, sure, what do I have to lose?
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I'm miserable, but then I just tried it and I did it every day like they told me to, even for just five minutes a day.
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And I felt the physical difference after about 10 weeks of doing it.
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About three months where I had my first real big epiphany about my life and the severe anxiety I had been experiencing.
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The epiphany that came to me actually after chanting for a few months was that I had space and room and the right to breathe in this world.
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I was so crowded by other people's stuff that I was trying to shrink myself to disappear.
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And that was like, aha I have the ability to breathe.
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I can take up space in this world.
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It was this huge, epiphany for me that came from chanting every day, doing it every day.
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Then my growth went from there, with the metaphysical practices that I learned, through the Empower Thy Self Program in the modern mystery school, in choosing an actual spiritual training program, we joke it's like Hogwarts because it is, it's a school where you can learn metaphysical stuff and get real spiritual training with no dogma, no religion attached, no shoulds.
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Here are practices that can help you in your life and if you choose to do them they help you.
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And again, I always encourage my students like I was encouraged to do these every day for 30 days.
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I'll even make a bet with them.
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If they'll do them every day for 30 days and, if they don't see benefit, I would quit.
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But, if you do'em every day, you see benefit there's just no way around it.
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And I always do the 30 day challenge with folks to give it a try and see for themselves the actual proof in their life on an energetic and just general life enjoyment.
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The ability to start feeling joy and enjoy your life every day and with gratitude practices, spiritual stuff aside, they have found in scientific studies that if you write gratitude even one sentence, they found, for whatever reason the pen to paper is better than any other form.
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After 10 weeks you, they doing brain scans they found the neuro pathways literally reroute You have to do it every day for 10 weeks and it grows new pathway.
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I think
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Yeah, I like that you start with 30 days, because I heard, 30 days forms the habit but day 31 and on is what keeps the habit.
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Like we talk about how long does it become a habit, but you have to continue after day 31 to keep the habit, which is very different, so I like the 10 week idea because it extends it to keep it as a habit, as opposed to learning the habit and you're like, now what?
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You keep doing it.
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That's the reason why the habit's being built.
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In my life, I'm the hard case too.
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It's like I always have to learn things the hard way or do it myself.
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So in my journey, I've been practicing Buddhism since I was 18, which is over 25 years now and then my path with the mystery school over 10 years long.
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I have seen people go a lot faster than me to get where I am.
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But that's because I've been stubborn, and a hard case and have to sometimes disprove.
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I'm like, oh no, it's not gonna work.
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It's not gonna work.
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And so being so skeptical but at the end of the day, those who do the first 30 days and then continue, and then they get to that 10 week and then they're like, oh, and then they continue you can really advance in your life quite quickly and it can generate a lot of benefit.
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But luckily in my case, even though in a hard case, I just keep continuing, even if there's times when I do less.
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