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Welcome, dear friends.
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Welcome back to A Call for Love,
and we are celebrating two and
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a half years of podcasting.
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I can hardly believe that I have sat here
in front of the mic really sharing from
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my heart this message, a call for love.
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Today my message is shifting.
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There has been an evolution.
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So if you're new, welcome and
if you're a longtime listener,
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I wanna see how this lands.
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Alright, to begin, I wanna share
that what's been in my heart is
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I am in love with a new word.
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I know that sounds kind of silly, but
I am in love with the word evolve.
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A lot of people talk about transformation,
you know, uh, they promise transformation.
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I probably have said this as
well, but transformation is big.
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It's dramatic.
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It's like a caterpillar turning into
a butterfly, but in my experience.
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Growth is more natural.
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It's more of an evolution.
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That's what I've noticed in my life,
and it's about gently peeling away
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the layers, letting go of these
old beliefs and stepping into the
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next truest version of ourselves.
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We're always evolving.
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I just love the concept in
the doda ching in verse 15.
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It reads, do you have the
patience to wait till your mud
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settles and the water is clear?
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Can you remain un moved till the
right action arises by itself?
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David G always used to say this,
and I found it in the doda ching.
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It is so true because that's
what evolution is about.
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It's about staying clear,
compassionate, and having courage.
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When you evolve, when you are going
through the evolution process of
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yourself, it requires compassion.
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Courage and clarity that
often means patience.
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Patience, waiting until the mud settles
in order for evolution to happen.
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And evolution is a natural process.
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We are naturally brought here.
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I believe this is strongly to
evolve for our souls to evolve for.
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Humankind to evolve.
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Are we doing a great job?
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Well, that is a debate that we
are gonna share for another time.
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But when you heal yourself, when you
transform yourself, you transform
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those around you, and that becomes
a ripple outward into the world.
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Alright, the exciting news for
a Call for love is that . i'm
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including a four series book club.
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Never done this On a Call for Love.
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If you know anything about me,
I was a school teacher for over
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30 years and I was a teacher
librarian for seven of those years.
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I love books.
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I love writing.
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It's a huge, huge part of my life.
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In fact, I treat books like
friends, and that is why I
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thought, why not have a book club?
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We're talking about.
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Evolving, evolving ourselves to step
into the highest version of ourselves,
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and that is a continuous process, right?
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One step in front of the
other moving forward.
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So I don't wanna give you all the
details, but beginning next episode
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for four episodes, we're diving into a
book, I'm separating it into four parts.
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And there will be an opportunity for
you to join live I'm so excited.
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I've recorded the first one, which I was
actually gonna share today, but I decided
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no, it needs a little bit of time to
marinate and I really, really want to talk
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to you about this new message about how
to evolve, empower, and elevate ourselves.
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That's where we're going to begin today.
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Because if you've been on my
website, which is getting a lot
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of traction these days and it's
being rebuilt, super exciting.
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I have had the message for
quite a while awakened to
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peace, love, joy, and abundance.
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And you know what?
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I've evolved from that.
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It's good.
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We all want that, but you know what?
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I want more.
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I, I want the nitty gritty empowerment.
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Embodying that essence,
elevating ourselves, evolving.
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These are action words.
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We are going to create the intention.
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Without the intention,
It cannot come to life.
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This is what I'm talking to you
here about today is the evolution
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of our soul, the evolution of
our journey, one step at a time.
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The catalyst for this has been multifold.
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So transformation is like a aha moment.
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It's a catalyst for change and
something happens like this is fast,
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it's dramatic, I've transformed.
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It's very, very in your face.
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Evolution is a little bit more gentle.
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Because it's more natural.
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And I also feel that when something's
more natural, it's lasting.
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It's like taking one step
in front of the other.
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And , this evolution is noticing.
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So I came home from 10 days up north and.
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We have a WaveRunner.
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If you do not know what a WaveRunner
is, it's a personal watercraft,
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like a jet ski or a SeaDoo.
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And I had an incident about a year
ago where I was very scared on it.
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I was driving it.
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I turned too quickly.
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We spun and twisted and
it was, it just scared me.
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And ever since then I've been
very reluctant to drive the
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WaveRunner, the personal watercraft.
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And I decided if I want to move
through this, I have to become clear.
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I.
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I have to become compassionate
with myself, and I want to
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really find the courage.
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It came a day that we went on and my
husband, Gord says, , do you wanna drive?
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But it was very wavy.
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I said, well, that's not compassionate.
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That's not a good time to find
the courage to really dive
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into driving the WaveRunner.
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So I, I declined.
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I decided to take those baby steps,
go when the water was calm, start
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slow, and build up the courage.
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That's how I feel evolution is.
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It's building it up one step
at a time with clarity, with
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compassion, with courage.
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These are my three C words.
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Clarity, compassion, and courage.
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Can you invite this in?
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To your personal evolution.
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When I think of evolution
it's really an evolution.
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And an evolution refers to, so evolution
is more outward and an evolution is
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something, it's an inner journey.
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It's a turning inward, uh,
deepening into our true self.
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And when we notice these two paths.
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Evolution and evolution.
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We are deciding how we're
navigating through our experiences.
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We're know we want to take one step
in front of the other to evolve our
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spiritual, soulful, human self combined.
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That requires turning inward.
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It's requires uncovering who
we are underneath, beneath the
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layers of our social conditioning.
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And ultimately it is a sacred journey.
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I.
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It's a sacred journey inward.
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It's a sacred journey to peel back the
layers of those illusions of who we were
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in order to step into our higher power and
power ourselves into who we actually are.
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I say to myself, those old
stories, I'm done with them.
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They're exhausting.
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They are boring.
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They're like somebody nagging
in my ear enough already.
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It's time to step forward.
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It's time to involve.
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It's time to empower ourselves.
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It's time to elevate.
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This is not a selfish action.
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The more we step into our
personal power, the more we.
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Really notice our soulful self,
the better stewards of our
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life and the earth we can be.
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And that's the goal.
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As I said before, when we transform
ourselves, we transform the world.
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So many people have said this.
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Dr.
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Wayne Dyer says it.
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You know, Joe Dispenza says it.
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, David G, so many people say this in
their own words because it's true.
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The simplest truths.
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Are the biggest truths Steven
Mitchell's, , translation of the Do Ching.
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He says, do you have the
patience to wait till your mud
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settles and the water is clear?
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Can you remain unmoving till the
right action arises by itself?
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I love this, and it deserves more
attention when you think of mud.
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It really stands for our concepts,
our judgements, our desires, our
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expectations, the illusions of our
thoughts, feelings and sensations.
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The five sensations, hearing,
seeing, touching, feeling, tasting.
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These all narrow and actually obscure
our reality and in the Doda ching,
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it tells us to really notice this.
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It asks us to wait to
find the correct action.
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Yoga star Ku Kani from potentially
in the Yoga Sutras says, pause.
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Establish yourself in the present moment.
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Then perform action.
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This is the same concept and the
most powerful concepts are said
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over and over again by our master
teachers, both ancient and modern day.
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And that's why I share them
because they're true and they work.
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Now, Steven Mitchell asked his old
Zen master to comment on, do you
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have the patience to wait until your
mud settles and the water is clear?
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Can you remain unmoving till the
right action arises by itself?
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And his zen master said, our mind
is like a glass of clear water.
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If we put salt into the water,
it comes out like salt water.
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If we put sugar in, it
becomes sugar water.
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If we put shit in, it becomes shit water.
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But originally the water is clear.
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No thinking.
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No mind.
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No mind, no problem.
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And that's the piece of
evolution that I really love.
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This waiting, becoming clear.
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Finding the courage and navigating through
compassionate moments is how we evolve.
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It's how we evolve.
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I was talking to my sister about this
this morning and she was mentioning,
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you know, evolution for her.
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The evolution is not always plain.
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It's not always simple.
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It's often painful.
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It's can be very painful to evolve as a
spiritual being, and that is something
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that we try to save others from,
especially those people we really love.
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But that does not serve them very well.
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When we try to save others, we
are actually preventing them
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from going through the process
of evolution of their involution.
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You may know this story.
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It's a really powerful story and I
love it deeply, so I'd like to share
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it with you, which it really brings
to light what I'm trying to say.
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A man spent hours watching a butterfly
struggling to emerge from its cocoon.
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It managed to make a small hole, but its
body was too large to get through it.
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After a long struggle, it
appeared to be exhausted.
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And remained absolutely still, the man
decided to help the butterfly and with
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a pair of scissors, he cut open the
cocoon, thus releasing the butterfly.
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However, the butterflies body
was very small and wrinkled,
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and its wings were all crumpled,
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The man continued to watch, hoping that
any moment the butterfly would open its
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wings and fly away, nothing happened.
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In fact, the butterfly spent the rest
of its brief life dragging around.
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Its shrunken body and shriveled wings.
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Incapable of flight What the man out
of kindness and his eagerness to help
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had failed to understand was that
the tight cocoon and the efforts that
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the butterfly had to make in order
to squeeze out of that tiny hole were
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nature's way of training the butterfly
and of strengthening its wings.
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This story is from Paolo Colo and
it Clearly shows us that with the
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struggle, I believe this to be true for
me, and what I've seen from my clients
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is when we struggle, it builds clarity.
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It builds.
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Courage.
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It builds determination.
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It builds that desire to move past,
often illusions, conditionings that
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we have met through our socialization.
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In order to move past them.
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Past them.
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There's always going to be obstacles when
we decide that we want something, I feel
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it's like the universe says, oh, really?
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Do you really want that?
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Okay, prove it to me.
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Prove that you really want it.
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Because if we said, you know, I want
a million dollars, I wanna go away.
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I mean, we would be all over . It
would be very scattered.
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But when we create an intention
and we decide that we want
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something become very clear.
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And that's where meditation is
very, very helpful because it.
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It asks us to get still and quiet in
order to hear the whisperings of our soul.
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When we hear the whisperings of our
soul, we can hear the messages and
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find clarity of how we want to move
forward, how we are moving in that
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involution in order to become better.
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I would like to say people, I feel people
is like the skeleton of our body, soulful
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people, soul spirits, how we evolve in
our values, in our ethics, in our actions
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when we are squeezing out of our cocoon.
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That's a huge transformation.
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When we come out and fly, the evolution
part, I feel is that cocoon, that
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building, that growing, that fighting,
and then aha, the, the aha moment
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where you come out of your shell,
where you come out of that cocoon and
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you come out with a, a defining moment
that was a catalyst to get you there.
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I, led a chorus, which I will be making
public in my new membership and I
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ask prompts to the people who join.
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And I would like to invite
this here on this podcast.
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Of course, if you are walking or driving
or doing something that is not safe,
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you can just answer it in your mind.
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You can press pause, answer
it, and then play back.
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Or I invite you to write it down.
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Once something gets written
down, it becomes power You have
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sent it out into the universe.
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It's already out there and you
can't unsee what you've seen.
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You can't unhear what you've said.
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You can't undo what has been
sent out into the universe, and
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that's why taking pen to paper.
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So powerful spirit has heard and if it
resonates with you to write these down.
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So I'm gonna ask them to you just hold
space for them and see how they land.
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Ask yourself, Where am I feeling
pressure to change quickly.
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Where am I feeling
pressure to change quickly.
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The wave runner for me
was the perfect example.
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I wanted to just get on it, get going.
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Maybe that would work, but
it wasn't working for me.
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I didn't want or need pressure.
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I was pressuring myself.
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For me, baby steps are more
realistic for others, a fast,
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like just get to it works too.
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But notice where you
are pressuring yourself.
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The word here is pressuring yourself.
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When you're pressuring yourself.
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it's forced and flow to grow.
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When it's flowing, it's a natural
order and evolution to grow.
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next, . What would it look
like to evolve naturally?
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How would, how would you move through
something and evolve more naturally
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with clarity, compassion, and courage?
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Once again, I will take the
WaveRunner story going on a calm day.
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Saying I can do it.
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Like I finding the courage being
with, , somebody who supports me
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and says, yeah, you could do it.
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I'm gonna go from point A to point B.
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I'm gonna start slowly, then I'm
gonna put my foot on the gas and
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I'm gonna increase the speed.
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That's how I'm gonna get over
my fear and just move forward.
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To evolve naturally, to conquer that fear.
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And what parts of you are ready
to be revealed rather than fixed.
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We're not fixing ourselves.
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We're not broken.
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We have bumps.
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There are roadblocks.
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We're believing illusions that are
not even true, that we picked up along
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the way, but where we are we ready?
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Ready to move forward
to take that next step.
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I always think of like watching yourself
walk on the beach with your footprints.
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You take one step forward, you
take another step forward, you
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take another step forward, you take
another and another and another.
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You don't feel empowered until you
look over your shoulder and you see
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how far you've come when you look back.
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It gives you further courage to
keep on taking those steps forward.
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That's evolution, through intentions
for getting to your destination.
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As I leave you here today, I'd like
you to think and ponder for a moment.
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Where in your life are you evolving?
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Where are you taking
that next step forward?
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That's what a call for love is.
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It's noticing where you're living.
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Are you living in a, uh, state
of fear, stress, anxiety?
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Those are not serving us.
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it's old.
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It's getting old.
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How do you wanna shift?
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When you decide what you wanna
shift, then you can shift.
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It's a call for love.
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It's a call to step forward, one step at
a time towards the destination, towards
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evolving your soul, to evolving yourself.
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As I said, when we.
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Transform ourselves.
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We transform the world.
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Be the change you seek in the world,
and the world will change with you.
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One moment at a time,
one person at a time.
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We can't blame others for holding
resentment, anger, fear, judgment,
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If we are holding it ourselves,
and that's the message here.
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We wanna notice where we're living.
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We want to evolve.
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It's an involution to evolve, empower,
and elevate ourselves to the next level.
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There's so many levels, it's exciting.
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Think of it as a game.
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Where am I going next?
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Like when you plan a travel.
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agenda, where am I going next?
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How am I gonna move
forward more in my life?
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And the beautiful thing is I do believe
the universe wants what's best for us.
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Do we want what's best for us?
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That is the message.
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I thank you for listening
here to a Call for Love.
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I really hope you join the book Club.
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It will be on for four episodes.
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I can't tell you the name of the
book because it is a surprise,
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but it is a game changer.
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It's an oldie and a goodie.
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It's a great read, A fast read,
really heartfelt, and you'll
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notice changes in your life.
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. I.
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I spread it over the four episodes
so that you could marinate in each
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message, and that's the evolution.
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It's the lasting changes.
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When you go steady, , you make
changes, changes that last, Everything
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clicks and voila, transformation.
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Always wishing you great.
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love, and joy from my heart to yours.
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Namaste.
