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Being here on this planet as a sensitive, it's not just about surviving.
Speaker:You are this powerfully attuned instrument of change
Speaker:and powerful instruments often need extra
Speaker:care.
Speaker:Hello and welcome back to Remember Why You're Here,
Speaker:a podcast for seekers and sensitives where you can relax, receive,
Speaker:reconnect yourself and remember the most important thing of all,
Speaker:why you're here. I'm Asia Suler, author, earth intuitive,
Speaker:teacher and highly sensitive person. And in this podcast today,
Speaker:we're going to talk about how to survive in this world as a sensitive.
Speaker:So if you are a sensitive who has been feeling overwhelmed lately,
Speaker:or maybe for a long time in this world, I made this podcast for you.
Speaker:This episode is for you. In this episode,
Speaker:we're going to talk about why sensitive people are overwhelmed right now in the
Speaker:world, as if it weren't obvious,
Speaker:but we're going to go into the specifics of why it is the way our nervous
Speaker:systems are built means that we are more likely than not experiencing a sense of
Speaker:overwhelm right now. And I'm also going to go into five energy practices that
Speaker:I use all the time to help me come back to center,
Speaker:because when we know how to release the overwhelm,
Speaker:come back to ourselves,
Speaker:we can then access the gifts that we're meant to bring to this world.
Speaker:And ultimately, in this podcast,
Speaker:I'm speaking to the part of you that feels like,
Speaker:how can I possibly survive living in this world?
Speaker:And hopefully by the end of this podcast, you'll not only know how to survive,
Speaker:but how to thrive as well. Before we get started,
Speaker:I wanted to mention that my 12-week in- depth Spiritual School for Sensitives
Speaker:Earth Angel School is closing for enrollment next week.
Speaker:So we only open the doors to this school once a year,
Speaker:and that door is closing next week on April 15th.
Speaker:That will also be our first day of class. We have weekly classes every week
Speaker:for 12 weeks, as well as discussion groups led by me,
Speaker:a whole library of bonus materials,
Speaker:guided meditations to accompany you throughout your day,
Speaker:and an optional in- person retreat at the end.
Speaker:On our first day next week, we're going to dive into the secret.
Speaker:This first class is called the secret, and in this class,
Speaker:I talk about the way in which this term Earth Angel can actually
Speaker:help you open up to an understanding of yourself that you probably have never
Speaker:had before,
Speaker:and that is going to completely reset the way you see yourself and your
Speaker:sensitivity in this life from here on out.
Speaker:I'm so excited to get started with this new cohort.
Speaker:Everyone who has joined so far is such an incredible person.
Speaker:What makes this course so special at its heart is the community,
Speaker:the way in which folks show up for one another, support one another,
Speaker:and how we are all evolving together because ultimately we're here to support
Speaker:each other, to step into our own souls unfolding,
Speaker:to understand who we are, how we work,
Speaker:and really flourish on this planet. So if you're interested in the program,
Speaker:you have until next week to sign up. And that link is
Speaker:asiasuler.com/earthangelschool. So let's get back to the episode today.
Speaker:If you are feeling overwhelmed, I want you to know you're not crazy.
Speaker:The world is incredibly overwhelming. The world be wild right now,
Speaker:and it's going to be wild for a while. Things that are going on right now,
Speaker:there is an immense amount of intensity politically, environmentally,
Speaker:technologically. We are living through a time of enormous,
Speaker:enormous change.
Speaker:And if you are someone who feels deeply,
Speaker:notices subtlety, picks up on emotional and energetic undercurrents,
Speaker:this moment of history is probably going to feel pretty overwhelming.
Speaker:And if you're listening to this,
Speaker:you probably are that kind of person because this is who a sensitive is.
Speaker:This is how us sensitives operate.
Speaker:So I want you to know that if you feel overwhelmed right now,
Speaker:you are not broken. Your nervous system is just incredibly responsive
Speaker:and you are not crazy.
Speaker:You are literally just feeling the bigness in the energies right now in this
Speaker:world. But there is a way, even amongst the intensity,
Speaker:even amongst the bigness to meet what is happening,
Speaker:to companion yourself and to learn how to be
Speaker:able to be with bigness and translate it into
Speaker:big changes for yourself,
Speaker:into big ability to access your own life force,
Speaker:to understand your own internal guidance system and to show up in the world in
Speaker:the way you most deeply desire to.
Speaker:So let's go into some specifics about why as sensitives,
Speaker:we get overwhelmed when there are big things happening in the world. Well,
Speaker:very specifically, sensitive people,
Speaker:we are designed to be early detectors of change.
Speaker:This is why evolutionarily sensitive people are created, among other things.
Speaker:And so we can detect when there is emotional tension in the room,
Speaker:when there is social unrest, even if it's unspoken,
Speaker:we are tuned into collective grief and environmental changes. We are tracking
Speaker:all of these changes. So anytime something is shifting in the field,
Speaker:we're noticing it.
Speaker:We are perceiving it and we are also using that information to pick up on
Speaker:patterns. And so we are noticing subtleties all the time.
Speaker:And in a world that is less than subtle,
Speaker:you can imagine that that's a lot of information that our systems are intaking,
Speaker:understanding, and trying to find patterns within.
Speaker:I also want to name this fact that though it's true that as
Speaker:sensitives,
Speaker:we will get overwhelmed by literal information like reading too many
Speaker:articles about the same thing or being exposed to too many different pieces of
Speaker:news in a day. It's also true.
Speaker:And what I find is that sensitives will often sense the change in the world
Speaker:before they even read the news. Have you noticed this in yourself?
Speaker:I've noticed this in myself, that I might take a day away, for example,
Speaker:from looking at my phone or tuning into the news,
Speaker:and I'm just feeling this inescapable sense of anxiety
Speaker:or panic or overwhelm. And it doesn't fit with my life. I'm like,
Speaker:" Nothing's happening right now in my life. Why does it feel so intense?
Speaker:"And then I log back in and I see that something big has happened while I've
Speaker:been away. And while no one has talked to me about it,
Speaker:I have not read anything about it anywhere.
Speaker:My body was picking up on it in the field.
Speaker:My nervous system was picking up on the subtle changes in the global
Speaker:environment and already responding to it. And so I just want to tell you,
Speaker:you're not crazy.
Speaker:If you are having these big emotional dips or overwhelm and you're
Speaker:maybe not even that tuned in to what is happening on a daily basis,
Speaker:know that your nervous system is picking up on it, is trying to respond to it,
Speaker:is tracking it,
Speaker:and is trying to perceive the pattern so you're not nuts. This is literally how
Speaker:you were designed.
Speaker:And you can imagine that that does make it hard to not feel overwhelmed
Speaker:at times because when big things are happening,
Speaker:we're then using a lot of ourselves to track that bigness and make it make
Speaker:sense.
Speaker:Because this is the reality of being a sensitive person is that we're tracking
Speaker:everything all the time. Even when we don't think we're tracking,
Speaker:our tracker is still on and it's working in hyper mode.
Speaker:So especially if you're an empath when it comes to other people,
Speaker:you are constantly tracking their wellbeing and their nervous system.
Speaker:And this doesn't just stop with your intimate acquaintances or intimate people
Speaker:you know. This extends to people online, the people you're reading,
Speaker:it extends to the people you're reading about,
Speaker:other people in other parts of the world here you will never meet.
Speaker:You are also attempting to track them, how they're doing,
Speaker:how their nervous system is. It's a beautiful aspect of being an empath and
Speaker:being a sensitive that we have the ability and desire to track other people
Speaker:to track how they are doing and where they're at.
Speaker:And it becomes untenable when we are literally trying to track
Speaker:millions of nervous systems at one time.
Speaker:So giving yourself a little bit of grace here and knowing that one of the things
Speaker:that we do as empaths in particular with this tracking
Speaker:propensity is that we perspective take.
Speaker:So I know I remember this when I was a kid that when I first started learning
Speaker:about really hard things on the planet,
Speaker:like violence and atrocity and war and genocide and all of
Speaker:those things that I would then obsessively perspective take,
Speaker:like obsessively try to put myself into the position of someone who
Speaker:was experiencing this kind of harm or oppression.
Speaker:And this is just something that sensitives naturally do.
Speaker:We just perspective take until we literally can't even feel anymore
Speaker:what our perspective is or where we are at.
Speaker:And so you're probably innately doing this, whether or not you even realize it,
Speaker:whether or not you're even aware of it. The moment you hear a story,
Speaker:any kind of story,
Speaker:whether it's a story your friend told you or it's a story on the news,
Speaker:you immediately jump into perspective taking of like,
Speaker:what would it feel like to be that person? How would this feel my body?
Speaker:What is the emotional landscape?
Speaker:It's so beautiful because it gives us the ability to understand people,
Speaker:to empathize with people,
Speaker:to access unconditional love for those that we care about
Speaker:and those who we encounter in this world.
Speaker:And you can imagine that that's overwhelming for our bodies because not only are
Speaker:we being exposed to stories, events, things that are hard to process,
Speaker:but then we're doubling down by putting ourselves into that
Speaker:situation in our minds and our consciousness and our emotional body. And our
Speaker:bodies don't read that as something different than what's happening for us right
Speaker:here, right now. So yes, of course, this will also cause a state of overwhelm.
Speaker:We as empaths and sensitives are often processing other people's
Speaker:emotions and collective fear.
Speaker:And so not only are we taking on individual perspectives,
Speaker:but we're kind of like this wide open container where we're doing
Speaker:work in the collective to process collective energies as they're moving through
Speaker:us. We're receptive to them,
Speaker:and so we literally receive them and then we move them through ourselves.
Speaker:And so all of these things
Speaker:are things that make being a sensitive person just so very beautiful.
Speaker:It's why we were created. It's why we are the way we are on this planet.
Speaker:We are innate healers and transformers.
Speaker:We carry templates for a way of being that the earth is in a
Speaker:movement right now to return to within humanity. And you
Speaker:can imagine,
Speaker:especially in our interconnected world where we are exposed to frankly,
Speaker:just way too much sensory detail and information on a daily basis that
Speaker:sensitives,
Speaker:us as sensitives will feel overwhelmed more often than not.
Speaker:This is why we need this thing called energy hygiene.
Speaker:So energy hygiene are practices that help you clear, regulate,
Speaker:and replenish your nervous system.
Speaker:Think about energy hygiene like a shower or a bath for your energy.
Speaker:What ends up happening when you're sensitive, sensitive people, we care.
Speaker:We can never stop caring. That's never going to end. So you care,
Speaker:you care deeply.
Speaker:And what happens is we end up over accumulating emotional residue and
Speaker:charge from the world around us.
Speaker:We accumulate and stay in a state of nervous system activation.
Speaker:And this can cause things like mental noise, fog, exhaustion,
Speaker:and overload. And so if you are experiencing those things,
Speaker:you can know that you probably need a little bit of energy hygiene in your life.
Speaker:And this goes hand in hand with boundaries.
Speaker:I talked about boundaries a few podcasts ago. If you're interested in that,
Speaker:definitely check that out, how to set boundaries to create new worlds.
Speaker:We need emotional,
Speaker:energetic and attention boundaries in order to
Speaker:have the space that we need to process what is ours and let go of what is not
Speaker:ours. And so this energy hygiene practices,
Speaker:which I'm going to go into in a little bit,
Speaker:these practices that will help you feel yourself again and release what's not
Speaker:yours go hand in hand with setting the boundaries that you need so that you're
Speaker:not constantly overgiving or constantly having things come into your field
Speaker:that bombard you and make you unable to actually feel and access yourself.
Speaker:Because at the end of the day, we as sensitives,
Speaker:we're made to not only survive this world,
Speaker:but to help humanity survive. And so your role
Speaker:as a sensitive is first to understand how you can survive in any given
Speaker:moment in time. And once you do that, once you know how to care for yourself,
Speaker:even in the midst of bigness,
Speaker:you become a force that helps humanity survival.
Speaker:And not just our physical survival, but our emotional, energetic,
Speaker:and spiritual survival as well. Sensitives,
Speaker:we want the heart of humanity to survive.
Speaker:We want our heart to be even more intact.
Speaker:And it starts with knowing how to care for ourselves in a world that
Speaker:contains a lot of bigness, a lot of intensity, and a lot of change right now.
Speaker:The whole goal for us as sensitives is to continually come home to ourselves
Speaker:because when we come home to ourselves, we have access to the energy,
Speaker:perspective, power, and possibility that can create new worlds in this world,
Speaker:that can feed, change, transformation,
Speaker:revolution. And so it begins with coming home to ourselves and accessing our
Speaker:power again.
Speaker:So before I go into these five practices to help you come home to yourself,
Speaker:I would love for you to just take a moment and think about the last time you
Speaker:felt fully at home in yourself. Let's resource ourself in this moment.
Speaker:When's the last time you felt like just really at home?
Speaker:And as you concentrate on this and bring it to your awareness, I'm curious,
Speaker:what was it that you were doing?
Speaker:Maybe you can see yourself in your mind's eye, in that place,
Speaker:in that time.
Speaker:I'm curious if you were alone or with someone.
Speaker:If you were with someone, who were you with? Was it a human?
Speaker:Was it your animal companion?
Speaker:And I just want you to bathe your nervous system for a second in this memory of
Speaker:where you were, what you were doing, who you were with,
Speaker:just really sensing that feeling inside of yourself of being home.
Speaker:And now I want you to notice how much
Speaker:power and energy you have access to now inside of yourself
Speaker:for remembering this moment.
Speaker:Think back to that moment where you were really at home in yourself.
Speaker:Can you feel this sense of inhabiting your whole body?
Speaker:This sense of energy flowing outwards from you,
Speaker:this sense of creativity and possibility coming
Speaker:online.
Speaker:And I want you to just feel in a tactile way that energy inside of yourself now,
Speaker:that power. Feel how fruitful that power is,
Speaker:how that power can move things,
Speaker:can change things. How just for existing in this world,
Speaker:that power shifts the fabric of reality.
Speaker:So that is what we're going to return to here when I talk about these five
Speaker:practices for coming home to yourself, and this is why we do them,
Speaker:so we can access this power,
Speaker:this power that not only fuels us and our ability to be alive and survive on
Speaker:this planet,
Speaker:but that facilitates us to create the change we are meant to bring to this
Speaker:planet through inhabiting ourselves fully and completely exactly
Speaker:as we are. So these are five practices that I turn to,
Speaker:especially when I feel overwhelmed in the world.
Speaker:And I find that these five practices can really help create a pillar of
Speaker:foundation and support so that you not only feel like, okay,
Speaker:I think I can survive this world, but you also start to feel like, okay,
Speaker:I am not only here for this, but I was designed for this.
Speaker:I was made for this. I was made for this time for a reason. Okay.
Speaker:So practice number one is to keep a palm stone in your pocket.
Speaker:So I love working with stone medicine.
Speaker:I think stone medicine is one of the most powerful medicines on this planet.
Speaker:It is ancient. We have been a relationship with stones forever as human beings,
Speaker:and there are a couple benefits of keeping a stone on you. First of all,
Speaker:you get the energetic or metaphysical properties of that stone.
Speaker:So a lot of empaths like to work with dark stones,
Speaker:things like black tourmaline, for example,
Speaker:or smokey quartz as a way to protect or shield their energy.
Speaker:So if you feel like things are bombarding you all the time,
Speaker:keep a black stone in your pocket. Slip it into your pocket,
Speaker:or I definitely have known people who if they don't have pockets,
Speaker:they put it in their bra,
Speaker:but a way for it to be close to you. And even if it's possible for it to be on
Speaker:your skin, this can also be really helpful.
Speaker:I also love to keep pink stones in my pockets.
Speaker:Pink stones help us release anxiety and panic.
Speaker:Pink stones connect us to our heart again.
Speaker:I find them to be very soothing for the emotional body.
Speaker:Rose quartz is my absolute favorite, but I also love rotonite and rotochrosite.
Speaker:So these are some of my all time favorites, but why keeping it on you?
Speaker:Why keeping it in your pocket? Well,
Speaker:beyond the fact that you're actually receiving that stone's energy,
Speaker:it is helping to remind you of the intention that you're setting with that
Speaker:stone. It is working with you and your energy and your consciousness,
Speaker:and it's helping your nervous system to have an anchor point and have a
Speaker:place where you can release tension.
Speaker:So my favorite thing about having stones in my pockets is the way they become my
Speaker:fidget toys. So fidget toys are actually really,
Speaker:really helpful items to help us release energy in our nervous system.
Speaker:So having any kind of fidget, and in this case,
Speaker:I'm talking about having a stone in your pocket.
Speaker:It's so wonderful when you have that stone in your pocket, how it warms up.
Speaker:So it becomes your body temperature.
Speaker:You can stick your head in your pocket and play around with the stone at any
Speaker:point, pull it out, hold it, keep it in your palm.
Speaker:And these sort of micro movements,
Speaker:it prevents the body from going into overwhelm.
Speaker:So this is why we do things like hair twirling or why we bounce our foot.
Speaker:This is really helpful and regulating for us.
Speaker:And it also keeps the energy circulating as well as discharging any nervous
Speaker:energy. So you might have other fidget toys that you love,
Speaker:but I just love the combination of the energetic medicine that stones bring
Speaker:us,
Speaker:the anchor point that they can help remind us of our intention with the stone,
Speaker:and then the reality that they're just wonderful to hold onto. They're such nice
Speaker:companions and make for really wonderful fidgets to have around.
Speaker:So I recommend going either to a stone store or just walking around
Speaker:outside and finding a stone that feels really good to hold in your hand.
Speaker:That's really the only requirement.
Speaker:Set an intention with that stone and then keep that stone with you,
Speaker:especially when you go out into the world because it will really help you set
Speaker:those boundaries,
Speaker:release the built up energetic tension that you tend to accumulate throughout
Speaker:your day and come back to your center.
Speaker:The second practice for energy hygiene is to shower at night instead of in the
Speaker:morning. So some of you might be morning showers out there and you're like,
Speaker:"Aja,
Speaker:I am not going to let go of that morning shower." And I'm not saying you have
Speaker:to,
Speaker:but I am saying that it is very helpful at the end of the day to have a shower,
Speaker:even if it's adding on to your morning shower,
Speaker:maybe having two showers a day. If you have access to running water and the
Speaker:ability to do this,
Speaker:showering at night is incredibly helpful for releasing
Speaker:charges that are ready to go, ready to be composted,
Speaker:ready to go back to the earth. Without even realizing at us as sensitives,
Speaker:we pick up charges throughout the day.
Speaker:And most of us actually have a really profound relationship with water because
Speaker:we already recognize that water helps us to release those charges.
Speaker:So my favorite practice at the end of a day is once my daughter's asleep,
Speaker:once the tasks for the day are done,
Speaker:I go and I take a shower and it doesn't matter whether or not I need that
Speaker:shower. If I'm overwhelmed that day, I will be taking one.
Speaker:And it doesn't even have to be long. It can just be a few minutes.
Speaker:I don't wash my hair.
Speaker:I put my hair up. I just let the warm water run over my body.
Speaker:Not only is this very relaxing and soothing for our nervous system, obviously.
Speaker:I mean, we were born before we were born,
Speaker:we were created in a womb of warm water.
Speaker:Warm water is one of the easiest and fastest ways to relax a nervous system.
Speaker:As it moves over you, it's also releasing and cleansing away the day,
Speaker:cleansing away the energies that you've picked up throughout the day.
Speaker:And what I've noticed is that if I complete all those sort of the tasky stuff
Speaker:before I shower, I shower and then it resets my energy,
Speaker:especially if I'm feeling tired or I'm just like doomscrolling instead of
Speaker:actually doing the things that will nourish me,
Speaker:I will convince myself to put the phone down, to step away, go take a shower,
Speaker:and then I often feel reinvigorated to do the things that are actually going to
Speaker:feed me. I take quiet time for the rest of the night, time for myself,
Speaker:time to nourish myself,
Speaker:and it really helps me reset so that I can meet the next day feeling fresh
Speaker:again. The third practice is to do a weekly tech Shabbat.
Speaker:So when we go on our phone,
Speaker:especially if we're logging into something like social media,
Speaker:we are literally being exposed to thousands of nervous systems
Speaker:every single time we do that. Even if you have your algorithm curated,
Speaker:so you're only being shown things that you really care about or you find really
Speaker:interesting or you find really funny,
Speaker:the fact remains that when we enter that field,
Speaker:we are interacting with thousands of nervous systems.
Speaker:And remember how we talked about how as sensitive people,
Speaker:we naturally track nervous systems.
Speaker:It's just one of those things that we're going to do. Well,
Speaker:you can imagine that being on your phone and being engaged in technology is
Speaker:linking you into so many nervous systems,
Speaker:so much energy in the collective that we don't even realize how much energy is
Speaker:going towards that,
Speaker:how much we're pouring into that. So one of my dearest friends in the whole
Speaker:world observes an Orthodox Shabbat. And for the longest time,
Speaker:we have all known that from sundown Friday to sundown Saturday,
Speaker:she is unavailable. You cannot text her. You cannot call her.
Speaker:You will hear from her again on Saturday night.
Speaker:And so I was really inspired by this practice that she upholds for herself and
Speaker:her family to start turning off my phone at Sundown Friday until sundown
Speaker:Saturday every single week.
Speaker:I have done this on and off now for years.
Speaker:I was very consistent about it before my daughter was born.
Speaker:After my daughter was born, some things shifted a little bit.
Speaker:I felt like I needed to be able to communicate with caregivers, et cetera,
Speaker:et cetera.
Speaker:And now I'm at the space where I can really go back into this textShabot.
Speaker:I have my life set up in a way where there are other ways to communicate. We
Speaker:have our schedules, we have our programs.
Speaker:And what I noticed when I started doing this again after a couple years of not
Speaker:having done it,
Speaker:is that it was literally shocking how much energy I had again,
Speaker:just for turning off my phone for 24 hours. And there are workarounds for this.
Speaker:You could get a landline if you still need to be in contact.
Speaker:If you live with someone and they're not doing a textShabot,
Speaker:you can let people know, "Hey, if there's emergency,
Speaker:text them." So there are ways to do it where you still create the feeling of
Speaker:connection or safety.
Speaker:But what I often find is that even knowing that someone might text us,
Speaker:even knowing that there are texts we still need to respond to,
Speaker:it is a constant pull on our attention and our awareness and our energy.
Speaker:Turning off the phone,
Speaker:it's like there is a background sound going on the whole time,
Speaker:like the dryer has been going on for hours and it goes off and all of a sudden
Speaker:you don't even realize how loud I had been and how much you had been having to
Speaker:deal with sensorially. And then it goes quiet and your whole body just
Speaker:relaxes. That's how my weekly tech Shabbats feel.
Speaker:It is actually magical what happens for me when I turn
Speaker:my phone off for that 24 hours.
Speaker:I also choose to turn off my computer and turn off TV to step
Speaker:away from those devices altogether.
Speaker:I normally find that Friday nights are the most creative nights of my week.
Speaker:I end up having huge brainwaves and breakthroughs about what I need to do to
Speaker:shift things around in my life to feel more alive, to feel more in tune.
Speaker:I have creative breakthroughs. I relax in a way.
Speaker:I don't relax any other time of the week. I'm more present with my daughter.
Speaker:It's really incredible to see how much I
Speaker:default to being engaged in and in tracking other things.
Speaker:And when I take that away,
Speaker:I see my capacity for presence. It's such a beautiful, beautiful thing.
Speaker:This will interrupt the patterns that you have where you are giving away your
Speaker:energy to your devices,
Speaker:where you were plugged in in times where you really need to be attuned to
Speaker:yourself.
Speaker:I deeply recommend a 24-hour Shabbat if you can swing it.
Speaker:If you cannot take a 24-hour break, design something that works for you.
Speaker:Maybe it's a six-hour break.
Speaker:Maybe it's setting limits on the apps on your phone and then sticking to it,
Speaker:having a 15-minute limit on whatever app you know that you end up scrolling on
Speaker:and kind of frittering away or giving away the time that you know you need for
Speaker:yourself.
Speaker:So there are steps and ways to create these limits and these boundaries.
Speaker:But what I will say is that if you have the ability
Speaker:to turn it all off, even just for a couple hours,
Speaker:you will notice so much open up for you. And I want that for you.
Speaker:I want you to have that space. I want you to have that time.
Speaker:And the thing about sensitives is that we're here to know how to attune to
Speaker:ourselves. For all of us, the answers are within, but for sensitives,
Speaker:it's an extra big task in this lifetime because we're so
Speaker:good at attuning to other people because we will naturally often put ourselves
Speaker:second or put ourselves last.
Speaker:It is at the heart of what we're here to do to learn how to attune to ourselves
Speaker:first, to hear ourselves first. But that inner voice, it can be subtle,
Speaker:it can be quiet. And so tuning out the distractions,
Speaker:taking a literal break will help you hear the guidance within you so that it
Speaker:will actually help you navigate everything else in your life.
Speaker:It'll help you have the clarity and the perspective that you need to make the
Speaker:changes you need in your life, to feel at home in yourself,
Speaker:to sit at your center, to feel replenished,
Speaker:to actually feel replenished by your nights or your mornings or your time. So
Speaker:highly, highly recommend this.
Speaker:If I could recommend any one thing for myself,
Speaker:my past self, my future self as a reminder of like, "Hey,
Speaker:it's possible to actually feel good again in life.
Speaker:Here's the only thing you need to do is take a 24-hour break from your phone and
Speaker:from technology,
Speaker:and it works like a charm." The next practice is a practice
Speaker:from Qigong and Taoism that I absolutely love.
Speaker:And it's this practice called heaven and earth energy bathing.
Speaker:So in Taoist understanding,
Speaker:we have in the lower part of our body underneath our belly button,
Speaker:there's this area called the lower dantian. This is our lower abdomen.
Speaker:And in qigong, this is where your core energy reserve lives.
Speaker:It's the root of our physical vitality. It's where we ground.
Speaker:It's our basis for emotional regulation.
Speaker:And so this practice,
Speaker:sometimes it's called pouring light. I like heaven and earth energy bathing or
Speaker:just energy bathing. The practice is this.
Speaker:The practice is that you hover your hands at your low abdomen here,
Speaker:this space where your energy reserves live.
Speaker:Imagine filling up your hands with light, warmth, energy,
Speaker:nectar,
Speaker:and then lift your hands over the midline of your body,
Speaker:up over your head.
Speaker:Feel yourself actually lift this energy up and pouring it over your head like
Speaker:a bath and really feel and see that energy moving,
Speaker:not just down the front of your body, but down your whole back body as well.
Speaker:And you can actually do this more than once.
Speaker:So if you gather the energy, pour it over your head,
Speaker:imagine it flowing over your head, replenishing you, nourishing you,
Speaker:and then cycling back into this part in your low belly,
Speaker:actually increase seeing the energy there and then pulling it up again and doing
Speaker:it again. I particularly like to do this in moments when I already feel
Speaker:nourished or when I just notice that I'm feeling really well.
Speaker:I find that when I do this energy practice, it's giving me
Speaker:energy, it's giving me life force.
Speaker:It's almost like it's an energy bank for the times ahead,
Speaker:for times when I might need to feel more of that energy.
Speaker:And literally it's gathering up your chi, your life force,
Speaker:and bathing yourself in your own chi.
Speaker:And one thing that is really cool I will mention is that I started doing this
Speaker:practice just intuitively before I found out that this was a practice in qigong
Speaker:and in Taoism. And I just absolutely love that. I think this is very intuitive.
Speaker:A lot of us, when we need resourcing, we place our hands over our low bellies,
Speaker:we hold ourselves here.
Speaker:And so this is just a natural extension of what will innately be drawn to
Speaker:do to hold ourselves here is then to hold yourself,
Speaker:hover your hands over this part of your body and then pour it over yourself and
Speaker:allow it to percolate and to really see it percolating and filling
Speaker:up yourselves with energy and vitality. In qigong,
Speaker:there is this awareness that qi or energy follows Yi,
Speaker:which is the intention.
Speaker:And so sometimes what I find with highly sensitive people in particular is
Speaker:that we want to do it right and
Speaker:we want to really make it happen.
Speaker:And the thing about this concept of ye is it's not about forcing,
Speaker:it's not about effort. So it's not about how good can you do this practice.
Speaker:It's more about this concept that gentle awareness is what guides energy.
Speaker:Not hyper focus, not like busting butt,
Speaker:it's gentle awareness that creates pathways for energy to flow.
Speaker:So one way of thinking about this in Qigong,
Speaker:I talk about the amount of energy you would use to hold a baby bird.
Speaker:That's the kind of gentle awareness you want to hold as you
Speaker:bring this energy up and flow it over yourself.
Speaker:It's almost like the more gentle you can be in your awareness here,
Speaker:the more that energy will flow. So try this practice out next time you're
Speaker:feeling good or next time you're just in a moment that you want to remember,
Speaker:you want to infuse into yourselves.
Speaker:Try this energy bathing practice and notice how you can refill yourself.
Speaker:Notice how you can feel nourished.
Speaker:The final practice I want to give to you today is something called a oracle
Speaker:walk. So I take oracle walks often.
Speaker:I recommend you take oracle walks in a natural place, if possible,
Speaker:or in a place where there are other beings, the more than human world.
Speaker:So you don't have to be in pristine nature,
Speaker:but walking through a park or walking through your neighborhood underneath the
Speaker:trees. And an oracle walk is when I use these,
Speaker:especially when I feel really overwhelmed,
Speaker:when there's a lot of energy and charge inside of myself and I almost feel like
Speaker:untouchable,
Speaker:almost like nothing can get through. When I have that kind of feeling of like
Speaker:literally like no nourishment is able to penetrate me right now, no perspective.
Speaker:I'm just like, I don't even know.
Speaker:I'm so overwhelmed and high energy and chaotic.
Speaker:The activation is so big that I just feel like the nourishment I need can't get
Speaker:through. This is when I'll do an oracle walk.
Speaker:And so these oracle walks are where you ask nature to
Speaker:come touch you. You're saying like, "Hey,
Speaker:I'm having a really hard time releasing this charge. Please come touch me.
Speaker:Please come reach out to me.
Speaker:" And so what you are doing with an oracle walk is you are setting an intention
Speaker:before you walk to ask the living world,
Speaker:to ask the wisdom that lives in the earth and the wider world to come touch you,
Speaker:to come reach you,
Speaker:to come reach you where you are so that you can start to move out of this state
Speaker:of freeze or fight,
Speaker:flight or fawn that you're in. And so it's really simple. Oracle walks,
Speaker:once you start walking, let go of whatever it is you're trying to process.
Speaker:Just let your mind be free, whatever wants to be there.
Speaker:But walk until you notice something calls to your attention.
Speaker:Just be aware of your environment. Look around.
Speaker:Look for the thing that feels like it's the message or the oracle,
Speaker:the answer to your need to release and be seen
Speaker:and connect to what's meaningful again.
Speaker:This is a practice of letting the natural world mirror a truth back to you.
Speaker:What you'll often find is that there's something on your walk,
Speaker:whether it's big or whether it's little, that ends up calling your attention in,
Speaker:that ends up really like providing this sense of relief or aha or just a sense
Speaker:of grounding.
Speaker:And this is a way to be in connection with nature,
Speaker:to be in communication with the more than human world,
Speaker:but it's also really, really helpful for our nervous system. And here's why,
Speaker:especially as a sensitive,
Speaker:we are used to tracking everything as I've mentioned before,
Speaker:including other people and their nervous systems.
Speaker:When we start doing things like an oracle walk where we're paying attention to
Speaker:the more than human world,
Speaker:we're shifting our tracker so that instead we're tracking nature.
Speaker:Instead, we're tracking bird song, we're tracking trees,
Speaker:we're tracking the wind. And this is so relieving for our nervous systems.
Speaker:This is the kind of subtlety that we were designed to really, really,
Speaker:really be attuned to.
Speaker:And it can really help downregulate our nervous systems to create a sense of
Speaker:more expansion and more possibility again,
Speaker:to soften and release the energy and the charge that has built up within us so
Speaker:that we can feel safe again in the world so that we can be open to the
Speaker:nourishment and the guidance that wants to come in. Here is a little bonus too.
Speaker:If you are on this oracle walk and you do feel a really big charge in your body,
Speaker:one thing that I love to do is to move my body in a way that
Speaker:helps me process this charge. So what do I mean by this?
Speaker:So here's an example.
Speaker:If I read something that day that just disgusts me that I just find absolutely
Speaker:repulsive while I'm walking,
Speaker:I might mime puking or just expulding it from my
Speaker:body or shaking it off. It's almost like water from my body.
Speaker:I might shake like I'm having something on my fingertips or shrugging off
Speaker:a coat that feels icky.
Speaker:Doing these movements actually really help us
Speaker:somatically to complete the energy or the charge.
Speaker:So often we have this charge inside of our body and our body wants to do
Speaker:something to complete that circuit. So whatever it is you're feeling charged by,
Speaker:ask yourself, what does your body want to do with that?
Speaker:Or if it was a situation that happened in the past that you're ruminating on or
Speaker:is bothering you in that moment, so what did your body want to do then?
Speaker:Did you want to run away? Did you want to push someone?
Speaker:Did you want to take your glove and slap someone across the face?
Speaker:Whatever it is. Do that motion with your body as you walk.
Speaker:Incorporate it into your walk.
Speaker:And this will be just like extra bonus round of releasing that charge from your
Speaker:body of completing that energy circuit and then opening yourself up again to
Speaker:hear that quiet,
Speaker:nourishing guidance inside of yourself to access once again,
Speaker:your own life force, your own directionality and your own inner knowing.
Speaker:So I hope that these five exercises are helpful. If you do these exercises,
Speaker:I'd love to hear from you. How do they work for you?
Speaker:Which one was your favorite?
Speaker:You can leave me a comment if you're listening somewhere where there are
Speaker:comments available or leave me a voice note over on my website,
Speaker:asiasuler.com/remember. I love hearing your voices.
Speaker:I love hearing stories from your day,
Speaker:and I would love to hear how these land with you because at the end of the day,
Speaker:being here on this planet as a sensitive, it's not just about surviving.
Speaker:It's about knowing how to thrive, how to be nourished by our own energy,
Speaker:how to be in our creative, passionate flow,
Speaker:how to love in the way we want to love in this world,
Speaker:to be nourished by the way in which we love and the way in which we want to give
Speaker:love,
Speaker:to be transmuters of energy on this planet. As I said
Speaker:before, highly sensitive people, we were designed to help humanity survive,
Speaker:to help the heart of humanity not only survive, but thrive.
Speaker:And so you are this powerfully attuned instrument of
Speaker:change and powerful instruments often need
Speaker:extra care. It's just how it goes.
Speaker:So I recently decided to start trying to learn violin.
Speaker:I have wanted to play violin since I was such a little girl and a friend of
Speaker:mine gifted me a violin years ago and it has just been sitting in its case
Speaker:and I've been too overwhelmed to start, but I finally sensed this energy,
Speaker:this space, this capacity myself this year.
Speaker:So I got the violin out and I'm just learning very, very basics with it.
Speaker:And I realized once I got this violin out that it has been sitting in storage
Speaker:for over 10 years and that violin needs some TLC, I realized, oh,
Speaker:I need to take this violin into the shop. It needs new strings.
Speaker:It needs just like extra care because it's such an exquisite
Speaker:instrument.
Speaker:Exquisite instruments need extra care and then they can
Speaker:produce exquisite creations.
Speaker:You are an exquisite instrument.
Speaker:You are deserving of this level of care because what you can
Speaker:create, what you can emanate into this world is life changing.
Speaker:It is world shifting. It is incredibly, incredibly healing.
Speaker:In the times to come, as we continue to move through these big changes,
Speaker:we are going to need the artists, the healers, the seers, and yes,
Speaker:the sensitives because the bigness of this time,
Speaker:it is going to continue to unfurl.
Speaker:It's not about waiting for the bigness to end.
Speaker:It's about accessing the center of ourselves in a way
Speaker:where we can meet the bigness and we can actually see ourselves unfold
Speaker:in response to this invitational bigness in the world where we can actually
Speaker:feel more of ourselves. We can access more of ourselves.
Speaker:We can access more of our creativity, our energy, our potential,
Speaker:and the healing that we are meant to bring to this world.
Speaker:So if this is resonating with you,
Speaker:if you are ready to truly thrive on this planet as a
Speaker:sensitive, I would love to journey with you in Earth Angel School.
Speaker:We are getting ready to get started next week.
Speaker:The group that has gathered already is incredible.
Speaker:This community just absolutely blows me away.
Speaker:If you are someone that wants to learn how to work with your sensitivity
Speaker:to unlock the gifts you came into this world carrying,
Speaker:if you want to create a life that actually supports your nervous system,
Speaker:if you want to make clear decisions,
Speaker:know which way to go with guidance from your deepest self and be able to connect
Speaker:to your widest knowing. If you want to be able to set boundaries with ease,
Speaker:the boundaries that you need to thrive and discover the role that you came here
Speaker:to play on this planet,
Speaker:come join me. This is a intimate 12-week program.
Speaker:It is by far the most personal thing I do,
Speaker:I offer in the world. We gather for weekly classes together,
Speaker:discussion groups.
Speaker:I get to hear about you and your heart and you get to receive what you need
Speaker:to feel truly in your power in this world to understand who you are,
Speaker:why you're here and the gifts you have to bring.
Speaker:It's amazing what can happen on the other side of learning these practices,
Speaker:these tools and these reframes. So as one of our students, Laura said,
Speaker:"I feel so much lighter now in my soul, more peaceful, stronger, and confident.
Speaker:I also feel excited about my future like I haven't for a very long
Speaker:time. I was unsure about the cost at first,
Speaker:but I can honestly say it was worth it. This class absolutely changed me.
Speaker:" So if you're feeling the call, if it feels like it's your time,
Speaker:I would love to have you in the program. We only open enrollment once a year and
Speaker:enrollment is closing next week on April 15th.
Speaker:So know that who you are is important.
Speaker:Your sensitivity is a gift.
Speaker:It is here to help this heart of humanity survive,
Speaker:and it begins with you being willing to tend to the gorgeous
Speaker:exquisite being that you are, this being that is capable of so much creativity,
Speaker:so much healing, so much potential, and so much resonance in this world.
Speaker:Your energy is what shifts this world.
Speaker:Your energy is deserving of safeguarding.
Speaker:It's deserving of sanctuary.
Speaker:So as we move into this world and more and more things
Speaker:unfurl or present themselves to you,
Speaker:may you remember that there is a center inside of yourself that is untouchable.
Speaker:May you remember that you are important to the unfolding of this world.
Speaker:May you remember that the way in which you care for your energy and you
Speaker:resource again in your own creativity is an essential nourishment to this
Speaker:world and may you remember that most important thing of all,
Speaker:why you're here.
