Making Miracles Everyday - An interview with Lea Bayles

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Welcome to the joyful journey podcast. If

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you're uncertain about what you really want or unsure how to be

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wisdom, access our highest self and unleash joy. As we raise our

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vibration, we heightened the collective consciousness and

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that my friends, is the joyful journey. Let's dive in. Hey,

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joyful journey here is a Anita Adams, your your host of the

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joyful journey podcast and today I'm excited to introduce you to

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another joyful soul. Leah Bayles, who is here to talk with

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us about making miracles every day. I love this stuff. First,

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let me tell you a little bit more about our special guests

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though Leah is the founder of soul big life coaching, a

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podcast host and transformational teacher and

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speaker. When Lia recovered from an immune system crash, she woke

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up to the extraordinary healing power within and that propelled

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her on a healing journey into ancient healing practices and

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modern energy medicine. Leah specializes in working with big

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hearted, high achievers who have bright dreams for their lives

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and our world. She empowers her clients to connect with their

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inner strength, sense of purpose and creative power so that they

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can create the life that delights their soul. She offers

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one on one coaching retreats workshops and classes online

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around the US and add her home dream forest farm. Leah,

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welcome. I'm so happy to have you here.

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Thank you so much, Anita. It's so great to be here

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with you. Yeah, thank you.

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Yeah, I feel like you and I are entrepreneurial

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sisters on the same journey, which is so cool, dude, we're

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doing many of the same things and serving our clients in many

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of the same ways. And I'm just so excited that we found each

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other. You know, when

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I read about you, I felt that like, oh, we have all

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these commonalities. And yeah, I was really eager to meet you. So

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it's so great to be starting the connection. Yeah. So

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awesome. You know, I'm not in the least bit

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surprised that we're we found each other, it seems and you

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probably agree with this, when you are really clear about what

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it is you want and how you want to serve in the world. It seems

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people find you the right people find you and are you find them

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and I just I feel I'm really excited about that you find your

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tribe, right?

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Yes, that serendipitous way you get into it and, and

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unexpected miracles and happy accidents happen to bring you

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together?

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Exactly. Well, before we get into talking about

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miracles and making them everyday. Can you tell us a

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little bit more about your backstory, what got you to where

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you are today? And specifically, I'm curious to know more about

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your wake up call where you discovered your own healing

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powers?

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Well, you know, there's the story about when I got sick

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and that well, but the one that really comes to me right now, I

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think if you're thinking you know, as listener, as you're

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listening to this, think of the pivotal stories in your life.

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And sometimes we talk about one pivotal story, and I think we

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all have lots of them. So I invite you to notice, you know,

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maybe the one that you're most used to thinking of, but also

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some of the others. And here's one of mine. When I was a

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teenager, I think I was 17 It was a hot summer day, and I was

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hanging out with friends on the edge of a river. We'd been

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sliding down a rock, a slide rock and having a great time.

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And I was exploring down river a little bit and I slipped off the

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rock and fell into the river and was swept away. Immediately. I

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left my body. Immediately I was watching from above. I had I

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could see down below way down on the rocks, my little teenage

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body bouncing from rock to rock, and I was up above at the

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treetops watching and I could feel this quiet, peaceful sense

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of connection with everything. And then suddenly, I was right

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back in my body again, climbing up onto the rocks and my friends

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were coming around and I went into shock coming back into my

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body that night and ever since I've had this feeling of like a

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Oh, yes, there's so much more. There's so much more than we are

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usually taught we are. And, you know, and that experience of

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suddenly being outside of my body, seeing things in a

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different way. And feeling that deep connection and peace with

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the world with nature was one of the things that has propelled me

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forward that knowing there's more than we usually talk about

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in our everyday ordinary reality. And that more carves us

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into our more full, expanded capacities.

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What a beautiful story, but a beautiful story.

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And I imagined, I imagined it must have been

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really scary in the moment to see your body drifting down the

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wrong

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area at all, no, wasn't scary at all. It was that sense

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of like, oh, there's that little body going down there. I you

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know, it's like that way that that we can have different

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perspectives. And the perspective I was in with that

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big overall watching perspective, as soon as I was

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back on my body, I was feeling all of the physicalized things

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without knowing that we can have different perspectives. And that

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sometimes that happens, I don't call this a near death

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experience. I don't think it was that close. But it had some of

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the elements of what we call a near death, certainly an out of

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body experience. But to realize I didn't just exist in that

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body, somehow, in a wonderful, wondrous, mysterious way.

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There's a part that's bigger than that. And so it wasn't

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scary. While I was up there, seeing it was like, this great

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sense of oneness. And so that led I think of it as Wonder

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experiences. And I think we've all had that. Yeah.

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I love that wonder experiences, I'm stealing that

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they wonder experience.

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But we can all use that wonder it's like to see, here's

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one thing, I think we don't talk enough about our wonder

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experiences. And I didn't talk about it much. In fact, it's

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kind of interesting. I said something about it several years

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ago at a family gathering, and one of my relatives said, I

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never heard about that. I don't believe you. Because I hadn't

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talked about it much. But the reason I hadn't talked about it

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much was that same attitude, I don't believe you, you know, it

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was that I held it close in my heart, and did tell not many

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people at all. Not because I was ashamed of that, because it was,

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I don't know, sacred and different. But I think we need

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to tell our wonder stories, because it makes us realize that

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we are more than the everyday reality, and that there are

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bigger capacities that want to come through. And I think we

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especially need them in the world today, are bigger

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capacities that are natural, that are a natural part of us.

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So I think it's important. Yes, please use wonder experiences,

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you might mention me. Use that, like, let's talk about our

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wonder experiences, let's bring them up. Let's talk about them.

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And help remind each other that we are more than we have usually

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been taught.

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Wow, I love that so much. It's so beautiful. Have you?

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Do you experience wonder experiences? Do you have

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wonder experiences like daily?

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Would you say? Well, I think we can. And I think living

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in wonder is one of the best ways. You know, we're going to

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talk later about making miracles. But I think I talk

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about taking off your cynic goggles and opening your wonder

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eyes. So you can even do it. Everybody can do it like

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Stennett goggles, they like limit what we see. And that sort

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of the attitudes that go with it. Like, oh, I know all about

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that. Or, well, that's just kind of silly or been there done

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that. And we have these that limit our vision, our

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perception, we take those off, and we open our wonder eyes, and

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we realize what an amazing world we live in. What an amazing when

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you could do it right now you can like open your wonder eyes

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to look at the world outside your room or in your room or

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your body or you to other you know, when we take off the

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goggles that limit our vision, the attitudes that keep us

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looking small. And we look right now is a wonder experience.

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I have to tell you right this moment I feel like

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this little girl, this little girl that's playing with the

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goggles and my hands and letting them go and I just bubble this

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coming up from me it just it's beautiful. Thank you for

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bringing out the childhood wonder in this moment.

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Well and that say that you Upstate, I think is our best

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way of being creative, and becoming visionaries and opening

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to new possibilities for ourselves and for our beautiful

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world. So yes, I love that you were willing to get in it and do

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it physically and clay and feel it can and then we can begin

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noticing what attitudes are closing our vision, what

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attitudes are closing us to the amazing world and possibilities

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that are there. And know that we have choice. We can take those

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off, we can open our wonder eyes. So when you say do you

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have wonder experiences very often? We all can. You know

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nature, you live in an amazing place. I'm in Ireland, and you

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know, and I live surrounded by trees. But wherever you are,

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you're in a city. You're in a suburb wherever you are. Nature.

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Is there the sky is there trees are there birds are there. And

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are our lives are there so we can open. What an amazing world

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we live in.

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Yeah. Yesterday when I was on my usual walk out

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through the meadow in the forest. And this is one

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beautiful spot I love stopping at. It's just this little bridge

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over there, this creek and it's kind of a marshy area. And

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there's just so much wildlife in this area. And I just stopped

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and watched the birds that were flying. And there was just one I

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think was a raven, it was a pretty big black bird. And it

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was just soaring in the sky. And I started to imagine that I was

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that Raven, and I could feel it I could feel in my imagination

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soaring through the skies and being lifted up by the draft. It

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was it was just a few moments of that maybe even just a moment of

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feeling that feeling that I'm up in the in the sky with this bird

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being that burden. It was magical. It felt like a little

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mini miracle in itself. And that in that moment.

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I love that. You know, we talked about shape shifting

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and shamanic work, we talk about shape shifting, and it can be

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just that simple. We can let ourselves be taken by an image

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that's interesting to us. That's beautiful. That's enchanting.

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And imagine that were there. And like you said, we could all feel

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listening to you. I need other the joy that you had and the

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expansion. And I think to have that is kinship. And you were

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you're creating kinship in yourself and that bird by

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feeling that through that imaginal sense. And I believe

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kinship is another one of those things that we most need right

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now. For our own well being and for the well being of our

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planet. Yes. Yeah, connect. So yes, that wonder, I love that.

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It's a perfect example. experience that you allowed

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yourself to have. Yeah, yeah. You create it for yourself. And

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you could easily and probably you've done this, I do this

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sometimes to your thinking about something or you know, worrying

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about something when you're going on your walk and you might

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not be as available to that. So to choose to let yourself be

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available is wonderful. Yeah.

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There's this beautiful book that I love by

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Donald sorry Neale Donald Walsch Conversations with God and in it

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in one of his books have that as a trilogy, I believe and he

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talks about this, he doesn't use the word kinship, but I like

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that word. He talks about identifying with everybody and

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every thing that you come across so if you, you know you, you go

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into a store and you start to think that I am that cashier. I

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am that woman. I am that old man walking with his cane. I am that

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street person, that homeless person and it's an interesting

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exercise. I do this quite regularly and I do it with

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animals and I do it was actually nature all around like I am that

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tree and I just it's just a second or a couple seconds of

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thinking I am that. Yes. And it's a beautiful exercise to do.

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Yeah, like I believe it. It creates that kinship and that

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sense of compassion.

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That is so beautiful. I absolutely love that. I do that

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too. And I absolutely love it and what it breaks the spell of

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our modern society of separation and believing that we are not

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part of nature and we are not part of the world. It breaks

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that spell very again very quickly. You know, sometimes we

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forget how simple these transformational things can be.

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And I love you have said it several times just took a

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moment. It was just a shift of attention. You know to do that

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and what a difference it makes to realize we are all connected.

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I love that I Am that I Am that tree. You know we are brothers

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and sisters. We are family We are akin I am you, you know to

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find that mirror, in a in the world of ourselves or in

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ourselves of the world. Beautifully said, we are not

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disconnected. And I think a lot of agree many of our problems in

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the world today I think come from that false sense of

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disconnection. And any other problems can be solved and

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healed by remembering our connection. And what you gave

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people is just such a beautiful example of a simple practice we

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can use as many times during the dance we want. Yeah. Mother

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Teresa talked about, you know, from her Catholic perspective as

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a Catholic nun service worker, she talked about seeing Jesus in

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every face, you know, and so from each perspective we can

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have, it is a spiritual perspective. It's not, it

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doesn't need to belong to any specific religion. But you know,

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it's like, when you see each person as that each being as

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that connected part as that spark of divinity, however, we

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want to imagine it, what a shifter that is no kidding.

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It's, it connects you.

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With who we really are, we are really are connected.

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Lovely. So I came across this beautiful quote, and

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it was written by this lovely human being, her name is Leah

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bales. In it, she says, a miracle maker mindset allows you

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to see the abundant miracles that are all around you, and to

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open to the bright possibilities that are wanting to happen

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through you. I love this quote, Leah, can you can you elaborate

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on what is the miracle makers mindset?

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Well, I believe we get to choose, we get to choose to

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be miracle makers. So just thinking as I was thinking

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toward this, four C's and the first one is choose and the

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second one is create, but the first choose, you get to choose

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to be a miracle maker, because you are by nature by birthright,

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you are a miracle maker. And I think we often instead choose to

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be miracle wishers miracle Helpers, oh, I hope something

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works out. I hope this works out. Realizing we can

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participate in the miracle making, we can open ourselves to

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it. And part of how we do that is to create way beyond a

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positive mindset, you know, is a miracle maker mindset. How do we

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and and what you quoted, so Well, I probably won't even say

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it quite as well, myself is a miracle makers mindset, let us

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be open to the miracles that are here right now, just like we've

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been talking about. And it opens us to the bright possibilities.

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We've taken off those goggles, we've taken off the Senate

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goggles, we're believing bigger, we, I believe possibilities are

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always trying to happen through us into the world. And miracles

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are trying to happen through us into the world, but many of our

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kind of normal ways, or normal ways of thinking ways in this

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culture of thinking, block those. So I have a whole series

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of little videos like miracle maker mindset. And what do we

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how do we do that little ways we shift. And so one is we take off

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the goggles, and we see what's here. The easiest way to make

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miracles every single day is to notice what's around you notice

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the amazing world that is around you right now. Being present,

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being present, being present, with a playful sort of spirit,

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as everyone's around you talk with people that are a little

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serious about being present. I just play with it. Let's play

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with it and see him and then open to the little things. I

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mean, we have flowers growing, we have birds, all these things

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that are really miraculous in the sense of being wondrous and

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amazing. And so we don't need to limit ourselves. So, you know,

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one miracle maker mindset thing is to look for the amazing,

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wonderful things around you right now. I'm I mean, I don't

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have any idea how people made my microphone or my glass or you

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know how these flowers grew or and, you know, those are all

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gifts that happen and and another way we play with miracle

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maker mindset is to reset your reticular activating system,

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which is a part of your brain or the RAS and I'm sure lots of

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you've heard about that and either you've heard about that.

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But it's the part of your brain that looks for what we tell it

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to look for. Hmm, right. It collects evidence for what we

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believe up, which is why whatever we believe gets

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stronger and stronger and stronger, because our brain

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says, oh, that's what she wants to believe. That's what she

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wants me to look for. So I'm going to find evidence for that

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example. If a woman has the feeling that she can't trust any

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men, all men are untrustworthy, that is almost certainly the

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only kind of man she's going to find. Wow, yes. Our brain brings

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that to us. You know, and we, they come to us, the reticular

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activating system looks for that. A really simple way. A lot

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of people have used examples like this, of how our reticular

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reticular activating system works. If you're at a party, and

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it's noisy, and you can't really hear much around you, but

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someone across the room says your name, your brain thinks

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that's important, and it will pick it up. Ever notice that

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happening? Yeah, absolutely. Across the chatter at you'll

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hear your name, because your reticular activating system

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says, oh, Anita is that name. And Anita is important, not

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better listen to it. It filters out everything else, because we

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can't pay attention to everything. So it filters

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everything else out except what we think is important. When I

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was pregnant. Suddenly, I saw pregnant women all around when I

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bought a white Yeah. And I suddenly saw white vans all

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around. They weren't more prevalent, but my brain now

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believed they were important. Mm hmm. So the reason this as

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important as because when we have beliefs, we hold on to

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them, because we keep getting evidence of them. If I believe,

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let's have a belief like, well, it's partly how prejudice

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happens. If we believe a certain thing about a group of people.

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And we believe that to be true, our brain will look for evidence

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of it, and it will filter out the other things. So

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if we look for miracles, we'll see more

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miracles we look for

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Yeah, we if we look for miracles, we start seeing them.

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If we look for things, we look for miracles not being real and

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being foolish, and being a waste of time. That's what we'll see.

Unknown: 00:22:13

Okay, cool.

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So that brings me to a question I have that that

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cropped up in a book I was reading last night, I'm reading

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this beautiful book come called The Wisdom way of knowing by

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Cynthia Burgo. And she references the gospels that

Anita Adams: 00:22:26

report that Jesus could do no miracles in his hometown of

Anita Adams: 00:22:30

Nazareth, because the people there could only see him as a

Anita Adams: 00:22:34

carpenter son. And I just thought that was so interesting.

Anita Adams: 00:22:37

It could he and I'm wondering, you know, could he not perform

Anita Adams: 00:22:40

miracles? Because there was not enough belief around him? Or did

Anita Adams: 00:22:44

he choose not to perform miracles in his hometown?

Anita Adams: 00:22:47

Because the people would not recognize them as miracles? If

Anita Adams: 00:22:50

he did? And it also made me wonder, is there an energy to

Anita Adams: 00:22:56

miracles? And if more people believe in them, does that

Anita Adams: 00:23:00

energy grow, to create even more or bigger miracles? Do you have

Anita Adams: 00:23:05

any thoughts about any of those? I

Unknown: 00:23:07

think those are all great questions. I mean, I

Unknown: 00:23:09

think, yeah, great. I love again, hanging out in those

Unknown: 00:23:15

thing, you know, and and so I think, to the final question, do

Unknown: 00:23:23

when more of us are open to miracles and letting miracles

Unknown: 00:23:26

come through us? Do they happen more often? I would say, almost

Unknown: 00:23:30

certainly, that seems to me like that would be true. And I have

Unknown: 00:23:34

felt that to be true. When you're in a group of people who

Unknown: 00:23:37

is interested in looking for miracles, from little miracles

Unknown: 00:23:40

to big miracles, they definitely happen more often. I don't think

Unknown: 00:23:45

I think, oh, go ahead.

Anita Adams: 00:23:46

Well, I'm just that kind of comes back to where we

Anita Adams: 00:23:48

started at the beginner beginning when you said we

Anita Adams: 00:23:51

should share our wonder experiences, because they were

Anita Adams: 00:23:54

making more people aware of the magic or the miracles. And if we

Anita Adams: 00:24:00

talk about it more, it brings it to the forefront of our

Anita Adams: 00:24:03

attention. And we start seeing them more,

Unknown: 00:24:06

right, resetting the reticular activating system.

Anita Adams: 00:24:11

Fascinating. So we need to talk about those one.

Anita Adams: 00:24:15

Yeah. And

Unknown: 00:24:15

you know, what I often find like, I've told that story

Unknown: 00:24:18

of falling into the river and being swept away several times

Unknown: 00:24:21

at conferences or different things. And every single time

Unknown: 00:24:25

people come up to me and say, I thought I was the only one that

Unknown: 00:24:28

had that I thought I was weird. I and many people believe you

Unknown: 00:24:33

know, they've had some unexplainable experience, you

Unknown: 00:24:36

know, an experience that I would think is amazing. And they've

Unknown: 00:24:40

thought they were weird, or they were told they were weird. And

Unknown: 00:24:42

they get it they hit it so we shut down that part of

Unknown: 00:24:46

ourselves. That is connected. You know, like you were very

Unknown: 00:24:50

free talking about how you're like I am the tree and I am the

Unknown: 00:24:53

bird and you know, some people have a hard time with that.

Anita Adams: 00:24:57

Well, I did a couple years ago I would not

Anita Adams: 00:24:59

have to talked about where we go,

Unknown: 00:25:01

yeah. And especially when children grow up relating

Unknown: 00:25:06

some of those experiences in families where it's not okay. Or

Unknown: 00:25:10

even the parents just think it's their duty to make sure the

Unknown: 00:25:14

child understands reality, quote, reality, you know, then

Unknown: 00:25:19

that gets shut down and the kids can even feel like there's

Unknown: 00:25:21

something wrong with them. And many of us grew up thinking, you

Unknown: 00:25:26

know, I think in our culture, we marginalize the invisible, we

Unknown: 00:25:29

marginalize or downplay or denigrate the soul qualities.

Unknown: 00:25:34

And so for the two of us that people probably you listening,

Unknown: 00:25:39

you know, believe in soul qualities know that soul

Unknown: 00:25:42

qualities are really important know that the invisible things,

Unknown: 00:25:45

imagination and dreaming and wonder, and miracles are really

Unknown: 00:25:50

important. And yet our culture, minimalize is in marginalized

Unknown: 00:25:56

systems. So we're taking them back.

Anita Adams: 00:25:59

I feel like that's shifting.

Unknown: 00:26:01

Yes. Yes, I do. I think it definitely is.

Anita Adams: 00:26:05

Yeah. Yeah. And it's one of the reasons why I

Anita Adams: 00:26:09

think there's doing this podcast and you and I, you and I are

Anita Adams: 00:26:13

doing similar work. Because we want to make a bigger shift, we

Anita Adams: 00:26:16

want more people to recognize and tap into the miracles, the

Anita Adams: 00:26:21

magic, the wonder,

Unknown: 00:26:23

the deep powers we have that we are not aware of the

Unknown: 00:26:26

power to heal each other and ourselves in the planet, the

Unknown: 00:26:29

power to make connections between species, you know, the

Unknown: 00:26:33

power to be more creative than we realize we have been.

Unknown: 00:26:37

Yeah. It's so

Anita Adams: 00:26:39

wonderful. And it's, you've used the word being

Anita Adams: 00:26:43

in wonder a lot. And we talk about that a lot on the show as

Anita Adams: 00:26:48

well, you need to be in wonder, and what a, what a wonderful way

Anita Adams: 00:26:52

to be is to be in wonder, right?

Unknown: 00:26:55

Look at the world

Anita Adams: 00:26:56

in a childlike wonder. I love that.

Unknown: 00:26:59

So we can shift into that curiosity, like, in fact,

Unknown: 00:27:03

my teachers can Katie Hendricks have a wonderful practice that

Unknown: 00:27:07

they teach that super simple, and it's wonder questions. And

Unknown: 00:27:11

you say, Hmm, I wonder, I wonder how I could do this differently

Unknown: 00:27:17

for a better outcome. Or, hmm, I wonder how I might shift this,

Unknown: 00:27:22

or, you know, any way that you can use it, but it really helps

Unknown: 00:27:25

us shift from that place of like, being overly focused on

Unknown: 00:27:29

figuring it out and being in an intellectual place into a more

Unknown: 00:27:33

spacious open state of mind and body, where more possibilities

Unknown: 00:27:39

come in. So yeah, great shift.

Anita Adams: 00:27:43

I'm writing about that very thing. Right now, I'm

Anita Adams: 00:27:46

working on my book, and I'm writing a chapter about

Anita Adams: 00:27:49

surrender. And I pose that very thing, like when you're

Anita Adams: 00:27:54

confronted with a challenge, and you can choose, you can choose

Anita Adams: 00:27:59

to brace yourself and fight against it, or you can choose to

Anita Adams: 00:28:03

be in wonder. And the Wonder is actually, it's kind of

Anita Adams: 00:28:06

surrendering, it's surrendering to everything, and choosing to

Anita Adams: 00:28:12

be in wonder about what's going to happen next. And that so it's

Anita Adams: 00:28:18

a gentle way, a gentle opening of your heart, and being able to

Anita Adams: 00:28:24

move forward to see what the possibilities might be. It's I

Anita Adams: 00:28:29

just I love. I love exploring surrender, because I feel like

Anita Adams: 00:28:34

that's something I need to work on. That's probably why I'm

Anita Adams: 00:28:36

writing about it. surrender, surrender, you know, and it's,

Anita Adams: 00:28:40

it's a big part of any spiritual journey as well. It's turning

Anita Adams: 00:28:44

out it's

Unknown: 00:28:44

very important. And I think it's important to to

Unknown: 00:28:47

differentiate between giving up, which sometimes people do you

Unknown: 00:28:50

know, sometimes, I know, that's not at all what you're saying.

Unknown: 00:28:53

And I think it's important to remember, you know, sometimes he

Unknown: 00:28:56

goes, Well, I don't want to give up. I'm like, why don't keep

Unknown: 00:28:58

doing this. It's like very different. And you even

Unknown: 00:29:01

expressed it in your gestures, you were like, opening opening

Unknown: 00:29:05

to something bigger, letting go of the forcefulness and the

Unknown: 00:29:08

pushing and opening to something bigger. So really a huge, big,

Unknown: 00:29:14

fun piece of it.

Anita Adams: 00:29:17

Sometimes it doesn't feel fun in the moment.

Anita Adams: 00:29:20

You can shift the attitude and make it fun for sure. All right,

Anita Adams: 00:29:23

you

Unknown: 00:29:24

share I think part of this surrendering the part

Unknown: 00:29:26

what's fun is remember, Oh, I'm not alone. I'm not doing this

Unknown: 00:29:29

all by myself. I don't have to figure it out. In my small brain

Unknown: 00:29:34

in my small you know, the big heart however, whatever our

Unknown: 00:29:37

belief system is, you know, that bigger mind the bigger heart

Unknown: 00:29:40

that is there that I can tap into and that to me are

Unknown: 00:29:45

surrendering to and also surrendering that idea of like,

Unknown: 00:29:47

what I think is supposed to happen. Almost always when we do

Unknown: 00:29:52

that, don't you find like we surrender that something bigger

Unknown: 00:29:55

is that

Anita Adams: 00:29:56

goes up. Yeah, it's amazing when you can detach from

Anita Adams: 00:30:00

Have your perceived outcomes or desired outcomes and, and just

Anita Adams: 00:30:04

surrender to the process. It is it is a process. It is a

Anita Adams: 00:30:07

journey. And it takes practice to do that I and I am constantly

Anita Adams: 00:30:12

having to work on myself to surrender and I love that I love

Anita Adams: 00:30:17

how I'm learning and leaning into that practice a lot more I

Anita Adams: 00:30:22

look forward to becoming a master might not happen until

Anita Adams: 00:30:24

I'm like 99 or whatever, maybe, maybe in another lifetime, and

Anita Adams: 00:30:30

I'm enjoying the journey.

Unknown: 00:30:32

Absolutely. I know, I think one of my teachers said

Unknown: 00:30:35

we're all shamans and we're all stupid. No matter who, how we

Unknown: 00:30:40

are on the planet, you know, it's like we all have moments of

Unknown: 00:30:42

like, transcendence and understandings. And moments,

Unknown: 00:30:45

we're just kind of like, Oh, what am I doing? You know. And

Unknown: 00:30:49

I, that's part of the beauty of it, it is

Anita Adams: 00:30:51

it is part of the beauty. And it's those moments

Anita Adams: 00:30:54

that I keep seeking, you know, those moments of transcendence,

Anita Adams: 00:30:57

those moments of connecting with that bird soaring in the sky,

Anita Adams: 00:31:00

the moments of connecting with other people and beings and

Anita Adams: 00:31:04

situations, and just stepping into, I just want to create more

Anita Adams: 00:31:07

of those moments. And I am and because of this conscious

Anita Adams: 00:31:12

intention to choose coming back to your word choosing to create

Anita Adams: 00:31:18

something. So you shared another quote by Gandhi that says, there

Anita Adams: 00:31:24

is a force in the universe, which if we permit, it will flow

Anita Adams: 00:31:28

through us to produce miraculous results. What do you believe, is

Anita Adams: 00:31:35

that force and high and

Unknown: 00:31:38

that's one of my favorite all time quotes. So I

Unknown: 00:31:41

believe it's the creative force of love in the universe, you

Unknown: 00:31:45

know, and that grows this forsythia and grows all of us

Unknown: 00:31:49

and that we can tap into, people might call it by different

Unknown: 00:31:52

names. And that doesn't really matter. To me. What matters is

Unknown: 00:31:55

it's something right here right now, we can always tap into. And

Unknown: 00:32:00

I know you've had this, some of the quotes that you've made, and

Unknown: 00:32:04

then some others I put together that are in your resources list.

Unknown: 00:32:08

I forget what to call that your toolbox. toolbox. Yeah, well,

Unknown: 00:32:11

yeah, cool. And, you know, I teach people how to shift which

Unknown: 00:32:16

when we shift out of push power, we shift out of thinking that we

Unknown: 00:32:19

are the one who's got to make it happen, we're pushing and we

Unknown: 00:32:22

shift into not giving up, but allowing this bigger energy to

Unknown: 00:32:28

move through us and help us do it. So it's like the difference

Unknown: 00:32:33

between having to push some push the river to make it happen and

Unknown: 00:32:36

be in the river flowing with it to let it happen. So river of

Unknown: 00:32:40

lifeforce we can call it. It's a little hard to find a word for

Unknown: 00:32:44

it, but we all know it. Yeah, we all know that experience,

Unknown: 00:32:48

everyone. We've all had the experience where even just for a

Unknown: 00:32:51

few moments, we're like, where did that come from that idea,

Unknown: 00:32:54

maybe I'm bet sometimes when you're writing a book, and

Unknown: 00:32:56

either you've got like, it's like, you're almost like you

Unknown: 00:33:00

fall away. And the book begins for at least a few moments,

Unknown: 00:33:03

maybe writing itself where it gives you the ideas of what it

Unknown: 00:33:06

wants. And so those were when we permit it. There is a force that

Unknown: 00:33:12

will flow through us to produce miraculous results. Years ago, I

Unknown: 00:33:17

was helping to teach at a yoga retreat, or a yoga yoga therapy

Unknown: 00:33:25

program at the Mount Madonna retreat center. And one day, was

Unknown: 00:33:30

a very, very hot afternoon, was a group of men out building a

Unknown: 00:33:34

rock wall, there were people who lived there at the community,

Unknown: 00:33:36

and we're building a rock wall. Most of them were very young men

Unknown: 00:33:39

in their late 20s, early 30s, very strong, vigorous, one man

Unknown: 00:33:45

was barely five feet tall. And he was very, very thin. And he

Unknown: 00:33:50

was in his 70s. And he was outworking all of the big,

Unknown: 00:33:56

strong young men. He could lift rocks, as if they were Boulder,

Unknown: 00:34:03

or boulders, big rocks as if they were feathers and place

Unknown: 00:34:07

them in place. And he worked with this smooth, effortless

Unknown: 00:34:11

grace and calm. And in the evening that night, I was

Unknown: 00:34:15

sitting in the dining room. And some of the young men who've

Unknown: 00:34:18

been working with him came out there say get out like, oh, man,

Unknown: 00:34:22

all day long. We're working. We're sweating. You're so tired.

Unknown: 00:34:24

We're into the day we're exhausted Balaji they call them

Unknown: 00:34:29

poverty. Never breaks a sweat. He works harder. He gets more

Unknown: 00:34:33

done than all of us. But he's doing it in a different way.

Unknown: 00:34:36

Baba Ji is working in a whole different way. Man, he's working

Unknown: 00:34:39

with energy. Barbati knew how to let the energy come through so

Unknown: 00:34:46

he could work with it to build the rock wall. Now we all have

Unknown: 00:34:51

that capacity. While they are building a rock wall. You can do

Unknown: 00:34:55

it from force. You can do it from effort. You can do it by

Unknown: 00:34:57

being the conduit for that A force that creates miraculous

Unknown: 00:35:02

results to come through. And we can all learn to do that.

Anita Adams: 00:35:06

I want to know, how do you have a secret says share?

Anita Adams: 00:35:10

Or

Unknown: 00:35:11

do I have a way, you know, if again, it's I mentioned

Unknown: 00:35:15

it on the handout that is in your toolbox I have, in this

Unknown: 00:35:19

whole big life treasure trove, there is something that's called

Unknown: 00:35:23

the 62nd shift from push power to flow power. And it's five

Unknown: 00:35:29

steps that people go through energetically that can happen in

Unknown: 00:35:33

less than a minute. And you know, of course, that's

Unknown: 00:35:35

something I work with private clients to bid, it's right there

Unknown: 00:35:37

in the report, I encourage you to it's free, it's there on the

Unknown: 00:35:40

handout that Anita has included of mine in her toolbox. And I

Unknown: 00:35:45

encourage you to sign up for that the 62nd shift, and you

Unknown: 00:35:49

know, begin to play with it. I was talking to a client last

Unknown: 00:35:52

week who was work is a professor and she's working on a book. And

Unknown: 00:35:57

she said she calls it metabolic grind power, you know, I call it

Unknown: 00:36:01

push power, but it's like your gears just in that. Notice

Unknown: 00:36:05

called the clench mode when she gets into that clench mode. And

Unknown: 00:36:08

then when she learned it in the way we've talked about to shift

Unknown: 00:36:11

out of it. And so one of the ways we can see that we're in

Unknown: 00:36:15

that like, we're really trying hard, we tense, our body is

Unknown: 00:36:18

tense, our eyes tense, we're working, we're pushing hard, we

Unknown: 00:36:21

think that's the best way to get things done, and it works

Unknown: 00:36:24

against us. So it's the process of letting that go. And letting

Unknown: 00:36:30

ourselves open into a bigger flow that can happen through us.

Unknown: 00:36:33

It's not giving up on our big goals and dreams. It's doing

Unknown: 00:36:37

them more like Baba Ji was building that rock wall. And she

Unknown: 00:36:42

said, I can't believe how much difference that makes. So she

Unknown: 00:36:44

said, sometimes her brain will go, No, I've got to push that to

Unknown: 00:36:46

get this done. And she said, As soon as she went through that

Unknown: 00:36:49

shift, what a difference it makes that I you know, people

Unknown: 00:36:53

from all walks of life, whatever we're creating, we can do in

Unknown: 00:36:57

that way of flow power, instead of push power.

Anita Adams: 00:37:01

I love that. I yeah, I will check that out more

Anita Adams: 00:37:06

myself, because I am somebody, I'm a type personality, you

Anita Adams: 00:37:11

know, I'm competitive, I'd like to get things I'm very, I'm

Anita Adams: 00:37:13

ambitious, I'm driven. I love what I do. And I try to I push

Anita Adams: 00:37:18

myself sometimes too hard. And a big reason why I started

Anita Adams: 00:37:24

walking, do my daily walks in the forest was to let go of all

Anita Adams: 00:37:27

that, you know, just trying to calm the mind trying to calm the

Anita Adams: 00:37:30

body. And to be more in flow, it is a very conscious thing that I

Anita Adams: 00:37:38

have to keep reminding myself to do because I am hard, why

Anita Adams: 00:37:43

hardwired to push. And I find it really challenging to often let

Anita Adams: 00:37:48

go of that, that push that drives

Unknown: 00:37:52

me well. And you know, that's what we're taught to do.

Unknown: 00:37:54

And it works up to a point up to a point did you break down and

Unknown: 00:37:58

cry, except to a point and then it's exhausting is and it will

Unknown: 00:38:02

never take us to where we really want to go?

Anita Adams: 00:38:05

Yeah, yeah. And I know, like I can point to times

Anita Adams: 00:38:09

in my life. And there have been many times in my life where

Anita Adams: 00:38:11

I've, I have successfully let go and been in that flow. And I'm

Anita Adams: 00:38:16

amazed at what has happened. You know, so I, so I've experienced

Anita Adams: 00:38:22

it many times, and I still have to keep reminding myself to just

Anita Adams: 00:38:26

be in that that river be in that flow.

Unknown: 00:38:29

And that totally makes sense. And also, I think that we

Unknown: 00:38:32

have to convince ourself that it doesn't mean we're just gonna go

Unknown: 00:38:36

lay in a hammock all day, which but you know, it doesn't mean

Unknown: 00:38:40

you have to like give up all of your goals and dreams to be able

Unknown: 00:38:43

to do it, it means that it's a better way to do them. And, you

Unknown: 00:38:48

know, it's it's breaking for most of us. It's breaking a

Unknown: 00:38:51

really big pattern. You know, I just briefly that's how I got

Unknown: 00:38:56

had the immune system crash in my early 30s. I would say

Unknown: 00:38:59

though, that you mentioned earlier, I was in grad school, I

Unknown: 00:39:02

had three little children. I was volunteering at the school, I

Unknown: 00:39:07

was babysitting other people's kids, I was going from my big

Unknown: 00:39:11

goals and dreams the way I thought it was supposed to,

Unknown: 00:39:14

which is pushing and pushing, I got sick, I kept pushing, I was

Unknown: 00:39:16

tired, I kept pushing, I pushed and pushed and pushed until I

Unknown: 00:39:19

woke up in the middle of the night. And my heart was going

Unknown: 00:39:23

boom, boom, boom, boom. Well, it was terrifying. It was

Unknown: 00:39:30

terrifying. And yet I thought I wonder if I should wake my

Unknown: 00:39:33

husband up and I didn't you know, because I was self

Unknown: 00:39:38

reliant. I was gonna deal with it and, and then I woke up the

Unknown: 00:39:41

next morning, I could not move. I felt like a truck had run over

Unknown: 00:39:45

me. And I you know, took me a long time to recover. And it was

Unknown: 00:39:51

one of the best things that ever happened to me.

Anita Adams: 00:39:53

Yeah, that wake up call. That call. Yeah.

Unknown: 00:39:57

Yeah. And it took me into studying the things that I

Unknown: 00:40:04

then learned for myself and to heal help other people learn to

Unknown: 00:40:08

heal themselves. I worked for 20 Some years as a holistic Mind

Unknown: 00:40:14

Body therapist and created wellness programs for hospital

Unknown: 00:40:18

systems, lots of different stuff. And now I use those same

Unknown: 00:40:21

mind body, holistic energy healing techniques for people to

Unknown: 00:40:27

be more creative for people to be more, you know, satisfied in

Unknown: 00:40:30

their lives. People who create the lives that delight, their

Unknown: 00:40:33

souls are still using those same things. It's not using them in a

Unknown: 00:40:36

hospital with people with chronic pain. I'm using them for

Unknown: 00:40:41

big hearted, high achievers for people who have a lot they want

Unknown: 00:40:44

to create in the world, and they are pushing to do it. And we can

Unknown: 00:40:48

do it differently and be more effective and much more joyful

Unknown: 00:40:53

on this journey.

Anita Adams: 00:40:54

Absolutely. I want to I want to bring it back to

Anita Adams: 00:40:58

talking about making miracles every day. We identified that

Anita Adams: 00:41:03

being in wondered and removing the cynical goggles is a key

Anita Adams: 00:41:08

part to making miracles. Is there? Is there anything else

Anita Adams: 00:41:13

that we can do on a maybe even on a daily basis to strengthen

Anita Adams: 00:41:19

our miracle making abilities?

Unknown: 00:41:23

Oh, one thing I think I mentioned, the four C's. So the

Unknown: 00:41:26

first is choose, you're going to choose I am a miracle maker. But

Unknown: 00:41:30

you know, be participating in that. And then there's creating

Unknown: 00:41:34

and creating a miracle mindset, how what is what allows us to

Unknown: 00:41:39

open to more miracles. So we look at that. And the third is

Unknown: 00:41:43

clear away what's in what's blocking. And some of that is

Unknown: 00:41:49

noticing attitudes, attitudes, of cynicism, attitudes of being

Unknown: 00:41:53

overly realistic. Also, getting caught in the dailiness our

Unknown: 00:41:59

daily life is beautiful, and wonderful and amazing. And I

Unknown: 00:42:02

love it. And we can get so caught. In that we forget to

Unknown: 00:42:08

have the bigger picture. And so we notice I have my facility a

Unknown: 00:42:13

little too close to me. She and I are dancing here. She thinks

Unknown: 00:42:19

she wants to gesture also. So that you know that what is in

Unknown: 00:42:28

the way of it, sometimes it's just we can get ground down by

Unknown: 00:42:32

the dailiness. Yesterday, I spent many hours on the phone on

Unknown: 00:42:37

the phone with I'm trying to figure out an email problem. And

Unknown: 00:42:40

it even got worse and worse this morning. So those daily things

Unknown: 00:42:45

we all deal with sometimes can grind us down. And we can choose

Unknown: 00:42:49

to clear those away bad things happen. And we choose to also

Unknown: 00:42:53

find the miracle in it. So we notice what's in the way.

Unknown: 00:42:58

Perfectionism is a great thing that gets in the way, self

Unknown: 00:43:03

doubt, you know, and that we lovingly notice these parts and

Unknown: 00:43:09

work with them to clear them. I have a journaling practice that

Unknown: 00:43:12

I offer. I teach a lot of my clients and students and it's

Unknown: 00:43:17

it's a variation I have actually I borrowed it and kind of

Unknown: 00:43:21

changed it from something melody Beatty does. And it's similar to

Unknown: 00:43:24

morning pages, which I think you do. But one of the focuses is

Unknown: 00:43:27

gratitude. And probably everyone listening to your show has done

Unknown: 00:43:31

gratitude journals, there's a little twist to it, you do it

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first thing in the morning, because that's when like things

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are really really fresh. I'm grateful. And then I'm even

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grateful for the yucky emotions. I'm even grateful for the

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emotions that are uncomfortable. I call them the yucky emotions

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because that's how they feel to me. And it right here in this

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sheet melody Beatty does it like talked about doing it for 10

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minutes. And that's what I suggest to my clients. But it's

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like a venting. And it's because we tend to those of us who are

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positive. You and me and your listeners, those of us who are

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wanting to create a better world and want to live in joy, how the

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tendency often to push down the quote negative emotions. And

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when we actually invite them in with kindness. And we even

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grateful for those because they are part of being alive. They

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are there in a way that will guide us and so it's an energy

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that gets released. And this is a more there's a lot more we

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could say about this. But just as a very brief thing. It's just

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inviting even those yucky emotions, and they tend to be

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more present in the moment. A couple of days ago, I was

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feeling very discouraged about something and I would prefer not

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to look at it. However I know if I do let it come up and I bring

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it into a field of kindness. And I let those feelings what they

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feel it feels like in my body to feel discouraged. Let that come

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through. When I jotted down, there's a clearing that happens.

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When that clearing happens, we are more open again, to the

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possibilities that want to happen in our life, we're more

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open to that river of energy that wants to flow through to

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create great results, miraculous results. So that clearing

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process is important.

Anita Adams: 00:45:21

Hmm, beautiful. I really love that I think we can

Anita Adams: 00:45:25

learn so much from those dark places to where those emotions

Anita Adams: 00:45:29

and and be in wonder about them as well. I like the idea of

Anita Adams: 00:45:34

embracing them with kindness and inviting them in love. What a

Anita Adams: 00:45:38

beautiful way of visualizing your emotions and how you want

Anita Adams: 00:45:45

to treat with them treat them.

Unknown: 00:45:46

I think of them sometimes as like, these little,

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like, kind of slimy creatures we put down in the cellar. Really

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dark and they haven't we opened the doors and come on into the

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kitchen. Oh, come on in, you know, and as soon as they shift,

Unknown: 00:46:01

you know? So come on. Yeah. And because they really do have

Unknown: 00:46:07

energy for us. Yeah,

Anita Adams: 00:46:09

I'm gonna play with that some more Thank you. Just

Anita Adams: 00:46:13

want some clarity, we've got use of the four C's Choose, choose

Anita Adams: 00:46:18

to make miracles. creat create a miracle mindset. Clear away the

Anita Adams: 00:46:24

blocks. What was the fourth that I

Unknown: 00:46:26

missed that, oh, we haven't said it yet. It's

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celebrate great to me is one of my favorite words. And I think

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of celebration as a form of gratitude. You know, we're

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grateful for what we've been able to accomplish. We're

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grateful for what we have. And we celebrate it. And we find

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ways to do that. And the more we celebrate the goodness that has

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come to our world, the beauty that we see, you know it the

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more more comes in, there was a great movie A few years ago. And

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I love the title as much as the movie, it was called happy.

Unknown: 00:47:00

Thank you more, please.

Anita Adams: 00:47:03

Awesome. I haven't heard that. I'm gonna have to

Anita Adams: 00:47:05

look for it. Happy.

Unknown: 00:47:07

Healthy. Thank you more, please. And you know, that

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is a great mantra. You're happy with what you have what you

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already have. You're giving gratitude for it? And you're

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saying yes, More, please. Because I think sometimes we get

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caught. Some people get caught in the place of like, I want

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more, I need more, I need more. And I forget to be grateful,

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which we need some of us, which is more for me, and maybe for

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you, too, are more like, Oh, I'm so grateful. How could I ask for

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anything more? You know, I have so much why would I ever need

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more? And, and so to be like, open in this, like, you know,

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it's like, happy? Thank you more, please. Yeah, because the

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more we open to that, the more we have in our life, and the

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more we have to share,

Anita Adams: 00:47:54

that is going to be my new mantra.

Unknown: 00:47:59

It's definitely one of my favorites. And so is that

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living in that celebratory state and, you know, celebrating, I

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think rather than looking at like what you didn't get done at

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the end of the day, celebrating whatever you did get done, even

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however minor it is, I like never really get done with my to

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do list. But I do try to remember to celebrate what did

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get done. Brilliant. And I find too, that many people that I

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work with have a hard time celebrating their own

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achievements. And when we can think of it as a form of

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gratitude, because our gifts, I believe are bestowed upon us.

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And so it's our job, to bring those gifts to the world as

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fully as we can get out of the way we do what we can to bring

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those gifts to the world. And we celebrate them not as a form of

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self aggrandizement, but as gratitude that we have these and

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that we're able to bring them into the world.

Unknown: 00:49:03

Beautiful.

Anita Adams: 00:49:06

So many, so many nuggets of wisdom in this

Anita Adams: 00:49:09

conversation. I have one last question for you, Leah. The big

Anita Adams: 00:49:14

picture vision for the joyful journey podcast is to heighten

Anita Adams: 00:49:18

the collective consciousness and to harmonize humanity. What is

Anita Adams: 00:49:23

one thing you think we can do as individuals to raise our

Anita Adams: 00:49:28

vibration so we can access our highest self and move closer to

Anita Adams: 00:49:32

achieving this goal?

Unknown: 00:49:35

Well, one of the things we can do individually and

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collectively as part of the miracle maker mindset is begin

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thinking of the world. We would love to live in. What is the

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world we would love to create? And we think of that for

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ourselves. And then we think what are the steps today I take

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toward that? But I think it's really important that I'm so

Unknown: 00:49:55

glad you brought this up, to think of it collectively. What

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is the world I want to live in. It's so easy to think up. I

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can't believe this is happening. And this is happening. It's so

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awful. When we go into what is the world, I want to help

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create, what is the world I want to live in? I want my children,

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my grandchildren, that grandchildren of all species to

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live in what is that world? And what? No. And that just

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envisioning, that is important. Envisioning and again talking

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about it, we talk about it with people, what is the world you

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envision? What is the world I envision when we open to

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possibilities? And then we also ask, what is my step today

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toward that? It may be very small. Yeah, what right it may

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be a way of being, it may be an action, it may be a letter may

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be something we do, you know, that feels like an outward

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action, it may be a way of being. And we because we are all

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creating that future together. Whether we're aware of it or

Unknown: 00:50:57

not. Absolutely.

Anita Adams: 00:50:59

Beautiful. Beautiful. Thank you so much,

Anita Adams: 00:51:03

Leah. I absolutely loved our conversation today. And I feel

Anita Adams: 00:51:09

like we could sit and talk for hours and hours and hours. All

Anita Adams: 00:51:14

this stuff and so much more. Such a kindred spirit you are

Anita Adams: 00:51:19

thank you for your time, your generosity, your beautiful words

Anita Adams: 00:51:22

of wisdom for showing up with your full heart wide open. It

Anita Adams: 00:51:27

was a lovely experience with you this this hour we spent

Anita Adams: 00:51:31

together. Thank you. It has been

Unknown: 00:51:33

a great delight. Thank you so much. I have absolutely

Unknown: 00:51:36

loved it and I really appreciate being here. Thank you.

Anita Adams: 00:51:39

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