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Nurturing Minds and Hearts: From Yoga's Calm To Global Wellness Education's Embrace With Linda Orsini
Episode 25 • 26th September 2023 • Mindful You • Alan Carroll
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In this week’s episode of Mindful You, Alan speaks with Linda Orsini. Linda is the youngest of 11 children and at a young age she was suggested to go on anxiety medication, Linda did not want to do that. Alan and Linda speak about her journey into becoming a global wellness educator as well as the definition of love. Orisini and Carroll speak about the different types of practices that would support people’s growth towards mindfulness. We all must practice loving kindness with compassion.

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Linda Orsini is an influential speaker, teacher, and coach dedicated to personal transformation, specializing in mindful self-compassion, meditation, yoga, Reiki energy and sound healing, and hypnotherapy. Founder of Global Wellness Education and host of "A Call for Love" podcast, she draws on her 30+ years of experience as a school teacher, overcoming anxiety, stress, and adrenal and soul fatigue, to teach others the skills to release emotional suffering to live healthier and happier.

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Alan Carroll is an Educational Psychologist who specializes in Transpersonal Psychology. He founded Alan Carroll & Associates 30 years ago and before that, he was a Senior Sales Training Consultant for 10 years at Digital Equipment Corporation. He has dedicated his life in search of mindfulness tools that can be used by everyone (young and old) to transform their ability to speak at a professional level, as well as, to reduce the psychological suffering caused by the misidentification with our ego and reconnect to the vast transcendent dimension of consciousness that lies just on the other side of the thoughts we think and in between the words we speak.

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Alan Carroll:

Hi, everybody. Welcome back to the mindful U

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podcast. My name is Alan Carroll and I am your host as we journey

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together down the pathway of mindfulness. And today it's my

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pleasure to introduce you to Linda Orsini. Linda has been a

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teacher for 30 years. She is dedicated to personal

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transformation, specializing in mindfulness, self compassion,

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meditation, yoga, Reiki, energy, sound, healing, hypnotherapy.

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She's the founder of the global wellness education, and has her

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own podcast called a call for love. She talks about the stress

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that she experienced the burnout that she experienced. And she

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discovered that the tools of mindfulness were much better

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than any Western medicine that could be taken to reduce

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anxiety. And so she became a believer and mindfulness. And so

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she's dedicated her life to bringing mindfulness to others

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and to heal others. So I am excited. And I'm welcome to

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introduce to you, Linda or Seanie. Please welcome Linda.

Alan Carroll:

Thank you. Linda, welcome to the mindful you podcast, I'm excited

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to have an opportunity to talk with you. And I'd like to start

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by having you share with our audience, a little bit about

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your your journey, your personal journey, your your background,

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and what were the like, critical milestones that accelerated you

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down that personal growth path, and then the contributions that

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you use in the world to heal and help other people.

Linda Orsini:

Sure, Alan, it's so great to be here. Thank you.

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I am the youngest of 11 children. And so I am quite

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resilient. And when my doctor had proposed that I take anti

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anxiety medicine, because it was just too my life was just too

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stressful for me, I was really had high anxiety, Soul fatigue,

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I was a school teacher, I had gotten divorced. And life was

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very big, very emotional. And my anxiety was through the roof.

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And I didn't want to take anxiety medication, because in

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all honesty, I was dating. And the side effects were, you know,

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gaining weight, low libido, and there was other one and it just

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like, that's not going to work. So my neighbor invited me to go

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to yoga class. And I went, and I was like, Oh, I had a little bit

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of break from suffering. And so I thought, well, let's, let's

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try this. Let's try this. If it doesn't work, we visit the

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doctor and see if I can maybe think about some kind of

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medicine. And I kept on going and I kept on feeling better.

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And I kept on loving it. And, and so then it just snowballed,

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because and now I bring in the peace again of the youngest

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child, because I really learned resilience. And I am the type of

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the person that really gets in there fast. And self advocates

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and self improves anyway I can. So I just took it upon myself to

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heal myself, I guess you could say. And yoga allowed me to get

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to meditation and mindfulness, because it was too far of a jump

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from over anxiety and stress. So fatigue, all the way to

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mindfulness and meditation. So yoga was the bridge.

Alan Carroll:

Well, that's that. Yep, I agree. In my own

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experience. Linda, I read a book in my late teens by Bob a

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rhombus is called D here now. It was the classic back in the 60s

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and 70s. And the book was divided into three parts. And

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the part I the part I liked the most was the section on yoga.

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And that got me down to this moving the body and stillness

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and getting myself relaxed and and here we are 50 years down

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the 50 years later. mindfulness and meditation are part of the

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the game part of the mindfulness game, because I imagine you

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realize that they follow each other as you begin to steal that

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anxiety, you began to look at well, what other ways? Can I

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steal the anxiety that I'm feeling? And so mindfulness and

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meditation is certainly one of them. I also wanted to ask you

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about some of the things that I read in your biography. And one

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of them was the the global wellness education. You're a

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founder of that. And I wanted you to sort of share with the

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audience what what that is because you put some energy into

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that, and I'd like to hear what it's about.

Unknown:

Well, thank you for recognizing that because yes, it

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has been a journey. I was a school teacher for over 30 years

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for an elementary school, from JK to grade eight in various

Unknown:

roles. And I knew that once I started on the wellness journey,

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it was like such a burning desire in me to expand this

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further. So at my first eligibility date, which happened

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to be in Canada, I was close to 54, because I started teaching

Unknown:

very young, I retired, and I didn't retire, I shifted, and I

Unknown:

began global wellness education, I felt like it spoke to all the

Unknown:

elements, it was global, which I am, and education, who I am, and

Unknown:

wellness, which I always advocate for. So I began with

Unknown:

global wellness education, and I thought I would just come into

Unknown:

wellness because I'm trained. I'm a Reiki Master sound healer

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trained in hypnotherapy. I have so many tools under my belt. But

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I wasn't quite sure the business piece because as a school

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teacher, that's not something that we really learned. But

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nevertheless, through global wellness education, I am

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expanding and growing it every day, especially with my podcast

Unknown:

now a call for love.

Alan Carroll:

And if I was interested in the global

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wellness education, how would you give me like a purpose

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statement or a mission statement for what that organization is

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about?

Unknown:

That's a great question. I really believe that

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global wellness education it permeates every continent, every

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being every age group. And so this is a global mission, that

Unknown:

we live healthier in our mind bodies and spirits, because when

Unknown:

we do, we can be of greater Stuarts to the earth and to

Unknown:

others. So all love becomes comes from self love. And unless

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we can hold space for all our pains, and our low tears and all

Unknown:

our joys, then we cannot be of service to others.

Alan Carroll:

That's beautiful. That's very, very beautiful.

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That leads into the concept you you mentioned earlier, was the

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concept of there are two types of love. And the way you

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described it, if I remember there's a one type, which we'll

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call love. And we'll call that the highest, the highest level

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of consciousness. And there I like what you said. And then the

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second type is not like against love, or the bottom love or the

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ugly part. It's just a I think you use the word, a lower

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vibration. That's that's a sweet way accurate, and accurate way

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of talking about a continuum. I mean, I believe and you believe

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that it's it's all one love. And so let's go into a a definition

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of you're talking about love. Can you define because a lot of

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people have a lot of different definitions about love. And I

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especially hope I'm hope I hope that that word space is involved

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in your understanding of giving space as part of love. And I

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don't know, but I'm keeping I'm keeping my fingers crossed,

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because that's certainly where I'm at with it.

Unknown:

Well, I'll give you a little teaser, you're right. But

Unknown:

the thing with it is that we really complicate our life. We

Unknown:

really, really complicated and life is complicated. But if you

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can just know where you are standing through awareness which

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comes to space, you cannot know where you're standing unless you

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stop to really find space and stillness. So then you decide,

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are you in a place of love, love as you said is the continuum.

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Love is the highest vibration, love and joy, highest highest

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vibration? What else is there if there's not love? And then the

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lowest by abrasion is shame, and all the ones above it. So here

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you have the spectrum. And we through awareness, through

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intention. And through action, we can decide where we are

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standing. Are we standing in a place of love the highest

Unknown:

vibration, our highest self? Or are we anxious, envious,

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jealous, frustrated, depressed, all those lower vibrations,

Unknown:

where are you standing. So if you're in a lower vibration,

Unknown:

which is under the title of fear, then you can practice

Unknown:

mind, body and spirit skills in order to raise your vibration.

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So that you can step in love, through self compassion, through

Unknown:

stillness, through space, through meditation, through all

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those modalities that enable you as the vehicle to raise you up.

Unknown:

And then from there, you live more intentionally you can be of

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greater service to those who you care about, too. We're stewards

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of this earth, when you are vibrating and living from a

Unknown:

place of love, then you are really living from loving

Unknown:

kindness, and from loving kindness, Everything blossoms.

Alan Carroll:

You certainly are very sweet and the way you

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verbalize that, that space of consciousness. There is a a

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vibration. And when you talked about specific, could you give

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some specific exercises or practices, someone who's on the

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lower end of that scale of love, and they want it? What can I do

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now? That would support me and accelerating my my growth down

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that mindfulness level 10 Love?

Unknown:

Okay, well, I do have some specific examples, I could

Unknown:

say, very easy one, let's take as a parent, right? You know,

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you've been working all day and you come home and your children

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are or child is really wanting your attention, kind of crabby,

Unknown:

kind of tired, right? And you can get frustrated, right?

Unknown:

Frustrated, because you're tired, etc. And then you have to

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stop. What is really happening here, you create a little space.

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And then when you create a little space, you know, that

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your child may be had missed you, it could even be your

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partner, who you haven't given enough time to that day. And

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what they're really trying to say is they miss you. And so

Unknown:

through your frustration, if you create this time in the space,

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you can look at it from a new awareness with a different

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intention. Instead of me getting frustrated, short tempered, or

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defensive. Those are the lower vibrations, I can step into

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love, I can stop what I'm doing for a minute. And I can sit with

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them. And everyone wants to be seen, valued and heard. And if

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we can offer that first ourselves, because we have to

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see what's going on within ourselves. And then we can offer

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that to others, then not only do we shift our reality, but we

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shift the vibration around us.

Alan Carroll:

That's beautiful. That's beautiful. You you are

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you're when you say you have to be able to stop. Well that What

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do you mean by that? And then you have to be able to see

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what's going on. When you stop. Well stop implies that you're

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moving somewhere. So how do you wake up in the in the, in the

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chaos of what's going on with your children? And what's going

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on with the world right now? What do you mean by stop? I

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don't Yeah. So how do you stop in order to create the space in

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order to observe and then so you no longer react? You now are

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able to respond and keep your body still and relaxed and

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dealing with the situation? How do you how do you how do you?

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How do you wake up? How do you wake up in order to stop?

Unknown:

I love that you asked this question because no one's

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really asked me this question and I love it. I am a meditation

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guide. I'm a course creator, I host retreats but I always say

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it's a practice. We have to teach ourselves how to do this.

Unknown:

We are reactive human beings. We react all the time. But through

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safe space through meditation and through mindfulness, right,

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we train our mind to stop and notice. And it's through the

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training through mindfulness and meditation, that we acquire the

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skills to practice it in crisis's, but we cannot practice

Unknown:

it in crisis, when we haven't practiced it in a safe place.

Alan Carroll:

Absolutely, my experience too, that you are,

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when you're in the battle is not the time to be thinking about

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how to prepare, you should have been preparing step by step, day

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by day, practice every day, something to create stillness.

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So it becomes, at first it's an effort. And then it's done. It's

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downhill skiing. It's like you want to you want to have that

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stillness feeling. And what I noticed for myself and I, and I

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bet you do too, that the agitation, the clouds, the

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storminess, that's happening in the moment, begin to settle

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down, you can begin to breathe. I bet when you're on that level

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one and two, you don't even aware of breathing. And I bet as

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you move towards that eight, nine and 10, the relaxation of

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the physical body, the tension in the physical body becomes

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more observable. And then I bet you can tell me if you can, if I

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can observe the physical tension that what can I do?

Unknown:

Well, when you notice it in your body, and you feel it

Unknown:

in your body, then it then it becomes a somatic experience.

Unknown:

You can say, Oh, I feel this in my body. We always feel it in

Unknown:

our body first, and then we can you know that it's the monkey

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mind, it's the mind, we say to our mind, you know what, first

Unknown:

of all, is probably an illusion, that we're really thinking, and

Unknown:

we are not our thoughts. And so we pull back the reins, we pull

Unknown:

back the reins, we have been exercising our mind like we

Unknown:

would our biceps, in order to pause to, to become aware, to

Unknown:

embody the emotion to think with a little bit more space and

Unknown:

rational. And then therefore we can make an action make an

Unknown:

intention to create an action where it's

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out of love. Yes, yes.

Unknown:

But that's practice. And that's intention.

Alan Carroll:

The intention is it you have a choice. In my the

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way I look at it, you have a choice between defending my ego

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point of view, which are attack thoughts, or I can let the voice

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of God speak through me. And if the voice of God was going to

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speak through me, the voice of God would be saying loving kind

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things. But my ego says I'm not God. Well, yeah, now maybe

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there's a little bit a god this in you, and you start to

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practice, looking for the cup half full, practice loving

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kindness, as you have to say with compassion. And that that's

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exactly what you know, from my reality, what the Buddhism talks

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about the vehicle to the Buddha talks about love and compassion.

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But what does that mean? Well, that that comes with that, that

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space, you're talking about that space of, I call it the the

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witness, or the observer of the movie, you're sitting in the

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you're standing in the movie theater with some popcorn,

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watching the clouds watching the movie go by on the screen, and

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you're enjoying it, but you're not taking it personally. But

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most people are the movie because they can't create the

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space between the chair and the screen. They are if there's no

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space, then you are the thought. But if you can create a space

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then oh, I'm, I'm having a thought right now about that.

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But I don't need to act on it. I can say wait a minute, nothing

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personal. Take a breath. And then look at how I can proceed

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with kindness. And I bet that is what what you've discovered on

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your journey too, because it sounds like you and I are

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connected here. Really, you are. You're throwing the ball with

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me. I'm throwing it back to you and you're catching it and I'm

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catching it because we've walked the path. You have covered

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universal things not not personal but universal things

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about space. Ace breathing. It's all of relaxation. And we

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haven't even talked about surrender forgiveness yet. Maybe

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the next time we do a podcast, we'll talk about surrender and

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forgiveness, because those are, those are two ingredients that

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seem to come with that, that journey from that egoic.

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Defending thing to, to not. Well, Linda, although our time

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has been short, it's been full of golden nuggets that you're

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sharing with our audience. And I bet there's people in the

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audience who are saying, Wow, Linda sounds like a pretty cool

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person. How can I how can I connect with Linda, what, where

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can I go? And in the show notes, we'll have your your all the

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links and things like that. And but this right now, if people

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wanted to connect with you, Linda, how would they go about

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doing that?

Unknown:

Well, you can reach out to me on global wellness

Unknown:

education.com and on social media platforms that are called

Unknown:

for love. And from there I host courses retreats,

Unknown:

transformational life coach, and I'm really here to support

Unknown:

people on their individual journey with self compassion, my

Unknown:

main route is unless we can love ourselves with self compassion,

Unknown:

that spills over to empathy for others. And then as you said

Unknown:

that forgiveness becomes a little bit more possible. So

Unknown:

that's just a little teaser for next talk.

Alan Carroll:

Wonderful. Well, I hear the ringing in my ears. So

Alan Carroll:

thank you very much, Linda for being a guest on the potter

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Palooza and the mindful you podcast, I enjoyed very much

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having the opportunity to talk with you. And I look forward to

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having another conversation with you in the future. Thank you

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very much. All right, bye bye for now.

Alan Carroll:

Okay, so I'm going to, I'm going to leave the I'm going to leave

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the meeting. Okay. And how did it go?

Unknown:

I loved it. I felt like both were just so in sync. Yes.

Unknown:

tossing the ball. I mean, I, our mission, our, our DIS ideology

Unknown:

are so similar. So bad.

Alan Carroll:

Yep, I agree. I agree it was because the way we

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were talking is from experience. Hmm, and not from a book. And so

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it's so the depth of the words have more power. When it comes

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from experience rather than Well, I'd read a book about it.

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Because I can see when because the observer and the witness,

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that's a that's a big, big thing. When you when you get

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that witnessed observer space stuff, you're now flying a lot

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rather than crawling along the ground. And unfortunately, most

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people, what do you mean by space and observing and witness

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and well, you start to meditate you, you start to create space

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between the thoughts that you think. And in my work, what I do

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with training professional speakers, what we do is we train

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them to create space between the sounds that they speak. And

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every time you create the space while you're speaking, you

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create a little bit of stillness. And boy, stillness is

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the the entry into that vastness of mindfulness. So you can be

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mindful while you're speaking. We call it mindful, spacious

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speaking. All right, well enjoy the power palooza. And I will

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reach out to you to reschedule because I want to talk to you

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more.

Unknown:

Sure, that'd be great. Thank you so much. It was such a

Unknown:

pleasure meeting you.

Alan Carroll:

You too. It was a pleasure knowing that there's

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other people on the planet like you makes me happiest

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