Join podcast host Tessa as she shares her search for meaning in two recent accidents. Do wrongful situations mean we have let our soul down? 

To help the brain serve the Spirit, Tessa encourages listeners to take a 50,000-foot view and create space for your feelings during the holiday season. Listen to the poem called "Slant" by  Suji Kwock Kim. 

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• Change your perspective by going up to a view
• Create space for your feelings
• Focus on what you can be grateful for
• I am safe, loved and alive.
• I am Thankful

Slant

By Suji Kwock Kim

If the angle of an eye is all,   

the slant of hope, the slant of dreaming, according to each life,

what is the light of this city,

light of Lady Liberty, possessor of the most famous armpit in the world,

light of the lovers on Chinese soap operas, throwing BBQ’d ducks at each other   

       with that live-it-up-while-you’re-young, Woo Me kind of love,

light of the old men sitting on crates outside geegaw shops

     selling dried seahorses & plastic Temples of Heaven,

light of the Ying ‘n’ Yang Junk Palace,

light of the Golden Phoenix Hair Salon, light of Wig-o-ramas,

light of the suntanners in Central Park turning over like rotisserie chickens sizzling on a spit,

light of the Pluck U & Gone with the Wings fried-chicken shops,

the parking-meter-leaners, the Glamazons,

the oglers wearing fern-wilting quantities of cologne, strutting, trash-talking, glorious:

the immigrants, the refugees, the peddlars, stockbrokers and janitors, stenographers and cooks,

all of us making and unmaking ourselves,   

hurrying forwards, toward who we’ll become, one way only, one life only:   

free in time but not from it,

here in the city the living make together, and make and unmake over and over

Quick, quick, ask heaven of it, of every mortal relation,

feeling that is fleeing,

for what would the heart be without a heaven to set it on?

I can’t help thinking no word will ever be as full of life as this world,   

I can’t help thinking of thanks.

* About the Host *

Tessa Lynne Alburn believes that every woman has the ability to learn to express their true voice, be heard, and fulfill their dreams.  

As a Feminine Energy Coach and Soul Connection Mentor for women, Tessa supports you in having the freedom you crave and strong connections with others, as you live powerfully with joy and a sense of adventure.

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Transcript

Tessa (00:02):

Hello. And for those of you who are listening from the

states, happy Thanksgiving. It's really been an interesting couple of weeks. My

vehicle was hit twice in the last 16 days, once with me, not in it, and once

with me in it, I am still shaking the shock out of my body, but I'm not broken

and I'm not bleeding. Thankfully. During these last few days, part of me

started to look for signs. You know, <laugh>, two accidents, right? Two

rear enders. What's this telling me? Is there a message here? What am I missing?

Surely there must be some meaning for all of this. Surely, surely, I'm looking,

looking, looking, scanning, looking.

(01:00):

Finally, when I was able to get really still and connect

in with the voice of my soul, she simply said to me, you have not let me down.

What? I said, <laugh>, have I been thinking that I've been letting you

down? And upon reflection, I realized I had been feeling that way. It's been

such a subtle thing in my life. Like whenever I've had a trip or a fall or a

bang or a break, there's been an underlying remnant from someplace past where I

felt like I let myself down. But not just me, my soul, I felt like I let my

soul down in a specific way. Like I, I wasn't doing the job I was here to do. I

mean, after all I'm intuitive, right? Like, why didn't I know to avoid these

things? What was it that was in me that put myself in harm's way?

(02:05):

Why would I do that? Questioning. Questioning. Perhaps I

did not put myself in harm's way. Or perhaps the smaller accident was to keep

me from being in a bigger one than I wound up not being part of, right? So I

think sometimes we're looking, we're really scanning, scanning, scanning for

answers, and our brains are trying to make sense of things. That's part of what

they're designed to do, often to our detriment. I hear it. You probably hear

it. Maybe you've said it yourself. Oh, that must mean that, oh, look at that.

Oh, from now on, this means this and I'm never gonna X, y, z. These are what I

call the antics of the brain, the monkey mind, the brain that's trying to

figure everything out to keep us safe.

(03:01):

And because we've put so much importance on intelligence

or learning and academia in most of our lives, this focus on the brain has

given our brain kind of much more power than it needs to be having. Because the brain really its place is to be a servant to the

spirit. So the more we can be in connection with our spirit and listening to

that guidance, the better off we'll be and we'll have a lot less stress. So

what I'm gonna suggest to you during these holidays, and you know, maybe

Thanksgiving is okay for you, maybe you enjoy it, and then we've got other

holidays coming up. The winter holidays, wherever you are in the world, there's

probably a holiday happening, and it's a time where families that maybe haven't

been together get together, or people that haven't been together get together.

(03:59):

And so there's kind of this ramp up of emotional life. The

old things show up in the present, and then before you know it, feelings are

hurt. And so I want you to take a 50,000 foot

view, however you can do that. Imagine you're a bird. Imagine you're in a plane

that goes higher than anything you've ever been in, or you just took an

elevator up into the sky and look down at the bigger picture. And as you do,

inhibit your brain from making meaning of things, add to that to create

downtime for yourself, space for yourself and your feelings. It's not enough to

create, you know, a little bit of space for yourself and then just go vacate

dissociate or to replay feelings that you're having instead want you to feel

them. Not try to figure out the situation, but feel the feelings you're having.

Maybe take a short walk or just go to the bathroom and shut the door for 10

minutes and breathe and ask yourself, what is it I'm feeling? And acknowledge

that that is what's happening right now. Allow yourself to feel, heal, breathe,

and let go of the stories your brain is gonna try to attach to and ask your

spirit to support you. You may want to close with hand on heart, giving

yourself some appreciation, telling yourself that you are lovable and that you

love all parts of yourself. Whatever is happening at this time.

(05:59):

I was looking for something miraculous to say,

<laugh>, on this day of gratitude. And I was scanning around and I

thought, I really wanna find like a new poem, like just a new perspective, a

way that's reflective of how I'm feeling today. Because honestly, I've been

feeling just grateful to be alive. I'm safe. I've been fed, I'm breathing, my

heart is pumping, and I'm alive. And I'm really glad you're here listening. I'm

so grateful for you tuning in, taking a few minutes to listen to your heart and

just give yourself a little bit of reflection time and kindness. I'll close

with a poem that I came across by Suji Kwock Kim. It's called Slant.

(07:01):

If the angle of an eye is all, the slant of hope, the

slant of dreaming, according to each life, what is the light of this city,

light of Lady Liberty, possessor of the most famous armpit in the world, light

of the lovers on Chinese soap operas, throwing BBQ’d ducks at each other with

that live-it-up-while-you’re-young, Woo Me kind of love, light of the old men

sitting on crates outside geegaw shops selling dried seahorses & plastic

Temples of Heaven, light of the Ying ‘n’ Yang Junk Palace, light of the Golden

Phoenix Hair Salon, light of Wig-o-ramas,light of the suntanners in Central

Park turning over like rotisserie chickens sizzling on a spit, light of the

Pluck U & Gone with the Wings fried-chicken shops, the

parking-meter-leaners, the Glamazons, the oglers wearing fern-wilting

quantities of cologne, strutting, trash-talking, glorious: the immigrants, the

refugees, the peddlars, stockbrokers and janitors, stenographers and cooks, all

of us making and unmaking ourselves, hurrying forwards, toward who we’ll

become, one way only, one life only: free in time but not from it, here in the

city the living make together, and make and unmake over and over. Quick, quick,

ask heaven of it, of every mortal relation, feeling that is fleeing, for what

would the heart be without a heaven to set it on? I can’t help thinking no word

will ever be as full of life as this world, I can’t help thinking of thanks.

(09:10):

Thank you again. I look forward to being with you next

week. And say yes to your soul.

Hello. And for those of you who are listening from the states, happy Thanksgiving. It's really been an interesting couple of weeks. My vehicle was hit twice in the last 16 days, once with me, not in it, and once with me in it, I am still shaking the shock out of my body, but I'm not broken and I'm not bleeding. Thankfully. During these last few days, part of me started to look for signs. You know, , two accidents, right? Two rear enders. What's this telling me? Is there a message here? What am I missing? Surely there must be some meaning for all of this. Surely, surely, I'm looking, looking, looking, scanning, looking.

Finally, when I was able to get really still and connect in with the voice of my soul, she simply said to me, you have not let me down. What? I said, , have I been thinking that I've been letting you down? And upon reflection, I realized I had been feeling that way. It's been such a subtle thing in my life. Like whenever I've had a trip or a fall or a bang or a break, there's been an underlying remnant from someplace past where I felt like I let myself down. But not just me, my soul, I felt like I let my soul down in a specific way. Like I, I wasn't doing the job I was here to do. I mean, after all I'm intuitive, right? Like, why didn't I know to avoid these things? What was it that was in me that put myself in harm's way?

Why would I do that? Questioning. Questioning. Perhaps I did not put myself in harm's way. Or perhaps the smaller accident was to keep me from being in a bigger one than I wound up not being part of, right? So I think sometimes we're looking, we're really scanning, scanning, scanning for answers, and our brains are trying to make sense of things. That's part of what they're designed to do, often to our detriment. I hear it. You probably hear it. Maybe you've said it yourself. Oh, that must mean that, oh, look at that. Oh, from now on, this means this and I'm never gonna X, y, z. These are what I call the antics of the brain, the monkey mind, the brain that's trying to figure everything out to keep us safe.

And because we've put so much importance on intelligence or learning and academia in most of our lives, this focus on the brain has given our brain kind of much more power than it needs to be having. Because the brain really its place is to be a servant to the spirit. So the more we can be in connection with our spirit and listening to that guidance, the better off we'll be and we'll have a lot less stress. So what I'm gonna suggest to you during these holidays, and you know, maybe Thanksgiving is okay for you, maybe you enjoy it, and then we've got other holidays coming up. The winter holidays, wherever you are in the world, there's probably a holiday happening, and it's a time where families that maybe haven't been together get together, or people that haven't been together get together.

And so there's kind of this ramp up of emotional life. The old things show up in the present, and then before you know it, feelings are hurt. And so I want you to take a 50,000 foot view, however you can do that. Imagine you're a bird. Imagine you're in a plane that goes higher than anything you've ever been in, or you just took an elevator up into the sky and look down at the bigger picture. And as you do, inhibit your brain from making meaning of things, add to that to create downtime for yourself, space for yourself and your feelings. It's not enough to create, you know, a little bit of space for yourself and then just go vacate dissociate or to replay feelings that you're having instead want you to feel them. Not try to figure out the situation, but feel the feelings you're having. Maybe take a short walk or just go to the bathroom and shut the door for 10 minutes and breathe and ask yourself, what is it I'm feeling? And acknowledge that that is what's happening right now. Allow yourself to feel, heal, breathe, and let go of the stories your brain is gonna try to attach to and ask your spirit to support you. You may want to close with hand on heart, giving yourself some appreciation, telling yourself that you are lovable and that you love all parts of yourself. Whatever is happening at this time.

I was looking for something miraculous to say, , on this day of gratitude. And I was scanning around and I thought, I really wanna find like a new poem, like just a new perspective, a way that's reflective of how I'm feeling today. Because honestly, I've been feeling just grateful to be alive. I'm safe. I've been fed, I'm breathing, my heart is pumping, and I'm alive. And I'm really glad you're here listening. I'm so grateful for you tuning in, taking a few minutes to listen to your heart and just give yourself a little bit of reflection time and kindness. I'll close with a poem that I came across by Suji Kwock Kim. It's called Slant.

If the angle of an eye is all, the slant of hope, the slant of dreaming, according to each life, what is the light of this city, light of Lady Liberty, possessor of the most famous armpit in the world, light of the lovers on Chinese soap operas, throwing BBQ’d ducks at each other with that live-it-up-while-you’re-young, Woo Me kind of love, light of the old men sitting on crates outside geegaw shops selling dried seahorses & plastic Temples of Heaven, light of the Ying ‘n’ Yang Junk Palace, light of the Golden Phoenix Hair Salon, light of Wig-o-ramas,light of the suntanners in Central Park turning over like rotisserie chickens sizzling on a spit, light of the Pluck U & Gone with the Wings fried-chicken shops, the parking-meter-leaners, the Glamazons, the oglers wearing fern-wilting quantities of cologne, strutting, trash-talking, glorious: the immigrants, the refugees, the peddlars, stockbrokers and janitors, stenographers and cooks, all of us making and unmaking ourselves, hurrying forwards, toward who we’ll become, one way only, one life only: free in time but not from it, here in the city the living make together, and make and unmake over and over. Quick, quick, ask heaven of it, of every mortal relation, feeling that is fleeing, for what would the heart be without a heaven to set it on? I can’t help thinking no word will ever be as full of life as this world, I can’t help thinking of thanks.

Thank you again. I look forward to being with you next week. And say yes to your soul.