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[01:29] Understanding Difficult Situations 

[03:12] Exploring the 'Why' Behind Difficult Situations 

[07:08] Personal Experiences and Learning from Difficult Situations 

[12:22] The Concept of Grounding and Its Importance 

[16:55] Practical Grounding Meditation Session 

[26:25] Closing Remarks and Future Programs 

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Welcome to the Art of Life podcast.

I'm your host Kanika.

I'm a meditation teacher and it is such a joy to welcome you to this episode.

In the Art of Life podcast, we talk about how to heal our life, how to create a

better version of our reality, to have more happiness, to have more joy, to have

more success, and to have more abundance.

Today we have a great topic.

This is on how to handle difficult situations.

It's personally the way for me and how I've used meditation

to handle difficult situations.

I wanted to give you a little bit of snippet into my life today and also

show how meditation works for me, make it a little bit more clearer.

And of course, if meditation isn't your style, that's absolutely okay.

There would be other ways that you connect with yourself.

And we can look at how you can utilize whatever works for you, whatever

those activities are, but use them creatively that you can heal your

life, that you can overcome difficult situations, and make them a lot easier,

smoother, and sometimes even have more fruitful outcomes from them.

Let's dive in.

In terms of difficult situations, I was thinking of any conversation that

you would be having, let's say with a manager, with a partner, with your kids

as well, any disagreement on something.

Another example of difficult situations could be the media and getting disturbed

by something that you've read there.

Maybe you opened the newspaper and there was something that's really

shocking and very upsetting for your system, or you receive some news

that's very upsetting, there's a post that you see that causes you some

stress, that would be another example.

And finally, I think a last category could be, some people,

some situations that bug us.

Maybe you're afraid of heights or perhaps, you want to do something, but

there's something that holds you back.

There's a person or there's a situation that doesn't quite align with you.

We look at not all of these individually, but we'll tackle them in a big bucket

called difficult situations and see how can we have more seniority

in our life with any of this.

It's basically life, right?

Going up and down.

And this episode is around building that resilience around difficult situations

and not feeling as pushed over.

Also having a lot more power, a lot more sense of self in all of these situations.

The first way I look at any difficult situation, if I'm feeling triggered,

is I start exploring the why.

Or...

Basically, why do I have this?

Why am I attracting this?

My belief is that whatever I'm attracting, whatever is manifesting in

my life, somewhere I'm a match to it.

Somewhere I'm in vibrational alignment with that.

Now that might not be something that I've consciously done.

Of course, I don't want to feel offended or triggered.

I want to have the most peaceful life, like most people do.

But at the same time, there would probably be something in my past life or

something as a soul that I need to learn.

And there's some sort of, match that I have.

I'm a clairvoyant and I have gone to lots of psychic fairs, sometimes

online, sometimes in person as well.

And it's really amazing.

There will be, even if I'm doing an individual reading or if I'm doing a

reading in like a big dinner or something, the readings, the readies who will show

up, they'll always bring up something where I have a match within myself.

I will be looking at someone else and there will be something that

I'll be seeing in their spirit side and I'll go, oh gosh, okay, that's

what I need to look at as well.

It's funny.

And other times when I've approached other people as well for similar readings,

and now since I've been studying all of this for a while, I have a good

network when I do that, a lot of times we'll joke around, we'll go, okay, we

are seeing this because we are actually still matching there somewhere and

there's some pictures, there's some energy that we still need to clear up.

That's perhaps a thought for you, like why do you have this?

Let's say if you're having a disagreement with someone, the question could more be,

well, why are you having the disagreement?

What is the bigger lesson that you're supposed to learn?

Even if otherwise...

You look back at your life, you'll probably notice a pattern on a few things.

Personally for myself, I know that in terms of relationships, I have

really needed to learn to step up for myself, to look after myself, to be

able to talk around my own boundaries.

And each of my relationships, I felt I was getting a good deal at the time.

But then again and again and again, that was the learning for me.

Now, I could definitely go around and, think in my head that

all those people are problem.

That's why the relationship didn't work out.

And perhaps that would be part of the story.

The other part of the story is that I was the common denominator

in all of those relationships.

I was attracting all of those relationships.

And unless I worked on my own pattern of being able to speak up for myself,

of being able to talk around my own boundaries and say, Hey, this

is what I like, and this is what I don't like, personally, for me, the

relationship dial didn't move as much.

I want you to think on a similar angle, think a little bit beyond the

situation itself, like step back and try and think, is there a pattern?

Is there something that your soul is trying to teach you at a bigger level?

Now I'll give you another example, which actually sounds pretty simple.

I recently lost my fob, when you want to come up or go out of my house, it's like

an electronic fob that gives you access through the lifts and to the elevators,

through the garage and everything.

And I misplaced one of those.

Well for some time I didn't even look in my meditation space and I was trying

to find it, look at it all over my house and I couldn't find it I sat down

in my meditation space and grounded.

That's something actually that I'm going to talk about in the later part

of the episode as well, how I did that.

I grounded the fob.

Basically looked at my own resistance and why was I not able to get

a fob, like as simple as that?

Why was I not able to find it?

And I cleared up whatever resistance I had within myself.

Forgot about it because I did this meditation almost sleepy

before I was going to bed.

And in the morning I got up with, like, the normal things, the

normal routine of the day, and on.

And there it was.

I found the fob.

Like, without even really putting as much of thought to it, and on.

I needed to clear up something in me.

I was angry.

A little bit angry, a little bit frustrated with myself.

How could I have been careless?

Why did I do this?

Very, very simple emotions that probably a lot of us can have.

But I needed to process those emotions, release those.

And the moment I released them, the moment I became ok with myself, I found the fob..

That's a very simple example around why we are attracting

certain difficult situations.

My example is around a fob.

Your example, your experience could be around somebody else or any other

situation, particularly situations where you feel, hey, you're getting them again.

Like you found a similar person again, you found a similar boss again.

I want you to think why.

and a bigger why than that person.

Look at, hey, what is my lesson here?

What is it that I need to work on?

And then that's your resistance bit.

That's what I'll share later on in the episode, in this very episode

as well, how we can clear that.

Everything is like an experience.

I believe that as spirits our purpose is to experience.

and evolve, to experience life and then to evolve as spirits.

What I mean by that is, that like in the real world, we sometimes go out and have

different cuisines, try them out, or we'll have different experiences, like

maybe we'll go bungee jumping or we'll go river rafting or we'll take a walk and

that's trying to explore some newness.

The same way I feel the soul or the reason why we were born as a spirit, we

want to experience different things and then have a sense of achievement that

okay this happened and I know how to tackle the situation in the body as well.

It's not something really serious.

It's something more exploratory if you will, it's something trying to

learn trying to have fun in life Think of dreams for example every

night we have some dreams we get up in the morning We don't even remember

them Or maybe we do sometimes.

Life goes on and the dream is a dream.

For our spirits, I sort of feel like each of our life or life experiences, they're

like these little dream snippets as well.

It's not super serious.

The soul looks at that, goes like I tasted that.

I had this experience with person A that felt really sad.

Okay, that's what that feels like.

Maybe then the soul goes, does something else, goes out of the

beach and goes like, wow, I really liked getting my feet wet and on.

That was a fun experience.

But it's not really going as if the sad was bad, the happy was beautiful.

The soul's purpose, or the spirit's purpose of evolution is simply

evolution, is simply getting that seniority, getting that power

with all of the situations, is...

Going like, well, that happened and look, I could have my head

held high and I could do this.

I could still have seniority there.

I still had my power.

That's that.

It's not super serious at a spirit level.

The soul is trying to simply experience and evolve.

Now moving on to grounding and how I use it to release resistance and to become

more accepting of the change myself.

As we get into it, grounding is like one of my favorite tools.

Every single day I am grounding.

Every single time I meditate this is like the first tool and

they're often meditations where I will sit down and ground like,

spend the whole time grounding.

You probably have heard of grounding, or you've come across the

definition, in some sense, anyway.

Because usually when we're speaking, we'll say, Oh, like, this person is grounded.

Or we'll say something like, Well, when I went for the bushwalk, I

felt really grounded and centered.

That gives you a clue already.

Grounding is around feeling grounded.

feeling centered.

And how we do it in the meditation space is we imagine that there's a connection

from us to the center of the earth.

Typically the connection is from the first chakra in our body, which is

the root chakra, it's survival chakra.

It's literally around a safety security on earth.

It's having everything on earth feeling okay and having or imagining

a connection with the earth.

When I Imagine this connection, and it doesn't have to be a deep trance,

you can close your eyes but definitely if you feel like, hey, I'm not doing

it perfectly, that's absolutely fine.

It does not need to be perfect.

As a spirit, everything that you are doing is in the right direction.

It's exactly at the right place that you are supposed to be at.

It's exactly at the right speed.

It's absolutely fine.

Take that pressure off.

The spirit is very fluid in that sense, In the physical world as such, we

really evaluate ourselves and we go like, well, did I do this right or not?

Was this perfect or not?

When you are in the meditation space, it doesn't have to be perfect.

It can be very simple, very playful.

The more playful you keep it actually, the better it is.

Okay.

As you're grounding you imagine like there's this connection with the

earth and all I'll do is I'll have an intention that the earth can take away

any negativity, it can take away any charge, it can take away any emotions,

anything that's not serving me.

Now the beauty with that is that I don't even know what is getting grounded.

I'll still be releasing a whole lot more.

As I've practiced over the years.

I know that I now have more awareness about grounding than I did when I first

started, and even then I get really amazed with how much we ground, with all the

classes that I have done and when I've shared this tool around grounding, then

I noticed that everyone is releasing a whole lot more than they realize.

And that's probably the beauty with grounding as well.

You can do it anywhere.

Let's do a mini meditation today because this time, in this episode,

I really wanted to give you tools and ways to have a better life

without having to go to someone else.

When you're ready, and when you are in a safe space, then I would

encourage you to take 10 minutes and I'll share this tool with you.

Ready means that you need to have a space where you can be quiet,

where nobody's going to disturb you.

I would also highly encourage that don't do this while you're driving.

Because sometimes the energy release can be really a lot and it

might get you unconscious and you don't want to have any accident.

You want to be really safe be in a safe space be in a space where you can

close your eyes be in a space where you can let go Of your attention for

10 minutes won't be longer than that.

Join me when you're ready.

Cool, so let's imagine that you are in a place where you are by yourself, where

you can take some time for yourself.

All right, so sit down, put your feet on the floor, and breathe,

exhale, let whatever stress you have, let that get out.

And you can imagine the difficult situation that you're struggling

with at the minute as well.

You can have an intention that whatever difficult situation you have, whatever

you're carrying in your body around this situation, that you can release it.

Imagine there's a connection that goes from where you're sitting

right to the centre of the earth.

Sometimes I imagine that the chair that I'm sitting on, that extends all the

way down to the centre of the earth.

And then let the earth take away anything that is not serving you.

You know the earth nourishes us.

It looks after us, everything that we have right now in this body is on earth.

We live, breathe on earth, we get our food on earth, we stay on earth, we have

our house, we have our car, everything on earth, so earth's supporting us.

And allow the earth to help you.

You can say that, hey, I've got some negative emotions.

I've got some charge, release that, take that all the way

down to the centre of the earth.

Breathe.

And again, the focus doesn't have to be really sharp, even if your mind

wanders, that's okay, bring it back.

And maybe imagine that as you sit down, as you relax, from your

body, you have like little ribbons going into the center of the earth.

And all of these ribbons are stuff that doesn't serve you.

So these ribbons could be maybe somebody else's idea, somebody else's

thought, anything that makes you feel really frustrated, anxious about

the situation, let that release.

Watch the ribbons go.

And you don't have to know what they are for, you can imagine that they're ribbons

going away from your body and getting all the way to the centre of the earth.

The earth's got a nice gravitational pull, so it takes all of them,

takes all that negative energy that doesn't serve you, and takes it all

the way to the centre, away from you giving you a nice safe space.

So as this happens, you can let go of ideas of others, ideas of even yourself,

that are not in your highest good.

You can let them go away, breathe.

If you feel there are any energy blocks, let them go.

Anything in your space that holds you, that makes you feel a little tight or a

little icky, you can let that go as well.

Watch it being released.

Imagine the earth takes it away and then with that, as the earth takes that

away, there's a beautiful nourishing energy that comes from the earth and

then that starts flowing up as well.

This is this beautiful life giving earth energy and that starts flowing

up your feet, comes up all the way to your first, then makes a little

loop, goes back again into the earth, but cleans you, cleanses you.

You can imagine that as the earth energy comes up, it cleans anything, any of the

cracks, any of the dirty places where you needed to let something go, any of those

nooks and corners, it takes away all the grime from there and fills it up with

beautiful earth energy and brings it up.

Watch that flow, or feel that flow flowing into you.

And that's grounding.

That's where you're grounding yourself.

And now as you run this, think of the difficult situation that you're facing as

well, and keep running the earth energy.

But imagine that as you run the earth energy, That your difficult situation,

it's getting eased, you know, all the resistance that you feel for it or

whatever, it's not flowing very well in your body, it starts flowing really well.

You don't have to solve it in the meditation space.

That's the funny part.

So if you feel like, hey, I want to like solve it or analyze

this, you don't have to do that.

Play like a little three year old kid.

Even if you do something wrong, these meditations are so simple and so

powerful either way that even if you are not doing them right, they're right.

They are working exactly how they're supposed to do because at a

spirit level, you know what to do.

So imagine there's like a loop that's coming up of earth energy in your space,

it's coming up from the earth, it's nourishing you, it's filling you up, it's

giving you everything that you need to have, to have your say in the difficult

situation, to make it easier for you, to make it smoother for you, to make it a

lot better experience for you as well.

Breathe, breathe and keep imagining the flow and watch the flow till

it becomes really easy and smooth and then as that happens you can

also shake your body a little bit.

You released a whole lot of energy so you can give yourself permission to move

a little bit, shake a little bit more and let the stagnant energy get away.

The earth's doing a wonderful job at releasing any stress, any anxiety in

your space, any, anything that was causing you any sense of trauma, all of

that's getting released when you ground.

So I highly encourage you to ground.

And when you're ready, then you can open your eyes.

And congratulate yourself for the beautiful job that you've done.

Good, good job.

So grounding is definitely really powerful.

I would ask you to notice your situation, whatever you worked on.

I would ask you to notice how that has shifted since your meditation.

Sometimes, some situations can be really charged as well.

Typically, like something that you're attracting at a family level, they

can have a little bit more charge.

Your life patterns can have a little bit more charge as well.

And then you might need to do things a little bit more.

Like you might need to ground a little bit more.

You might need to do some other tools as well.

But grounding is definitely a really, really great start.

I highly encourage you to see what's happening and hit me up

with the changes that you notice in your life with this as well.

I have written an e book on grounding that gives you a little bit of

theory, still keeps it very playful.

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Thank you so much for tuning into this episode.

Next week, we will come back with another one, but till then,

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I will see you next time with another episode.

Till then, wish you the very best.

Keep grounding.

Keep smiling.