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Episode 172nd November 2023 • Art of Life • Kanika
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Learn practical ways to gain more control over your reactions to difficult situations, and how to use meditation as a tool for deeper self-understanding. 🌈 

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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.

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I'm your host Kanika.

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

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

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

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more success, and to have more abundance.

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Today we have a great topic.

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This is on how to handle difficult situations.

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

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to handle difficult situations.

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

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

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

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There would be other ways that you connect with yourself.

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

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

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

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

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Let's dive in.

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

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

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as well, any disagreement on something.

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

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by something that you've read there.

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

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

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

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stress, that would be another example.

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

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some situations that bug us.

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

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there's something that holds you back.

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

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

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called difficult situations and see how can we have more seniority

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in our life with any of this.

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It's basically life, right?

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Going up and down.

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And this episode is around building that resilience around difficult situations

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and not feeling as pushed over.

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

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

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is I start exploring the why.

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Or...

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Basically, why do I have this?

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Why am I attracting this?

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

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

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Somewhere I'm in vibrational alignment with that.

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

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

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

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

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something as a soul that I need to learn.

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

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

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online, sometimes in person as well.

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And it's really amazing.

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

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

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

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

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

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what I need to look at as well.

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It's funny.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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well, why are you having the disagreement?

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

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Even if otherwise...

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

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

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

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able to talk around my own boundaries.

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

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

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

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all those people are problem.

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

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And perhaps that would be part of the story.

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

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in all of those relationships.

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I was attracting all of those relationships.

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

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

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

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relationship dial didn't move as much.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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through the garage and everything.

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And I misplaced one of those.

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

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

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in my meditation space and grounded.

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

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of the episode as well, how I did that.

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I grounded the fob.

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

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a fob, like as simple as that?

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Why was I not able to find it?

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And I cleared up whatever resistance I had within myself.

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Forgot about it because I did this meditation almost sleepy

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before I was going to bed.

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

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normal routine of the day, and on.

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And there it was.

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I found the fob.

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

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I needed to clear up something in me.

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I was angry.

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

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How could I have been careless?

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Why did I do this?

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

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But I needed to process those emotions, release those.

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

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

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certain difficult situations.

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My example is around a fob.

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

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

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

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I want you to think why.

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and a bigger why than that person.

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Look at, hey, what is my lesson here?

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What is it that I need to work on?

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And then that's your resistance bit.

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

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as well, how we can clear that.

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Everything is like an experience.

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I believe that as spirits our purpose is to experience.

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

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

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

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

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that's trying to explore some newness.

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

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

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

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It's not something really serious.

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

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

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

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them Or maybe we do sometimes.

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Life goes on and the dream is a dream.

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

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like these little dream snippets as well.

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It's not super serious.

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

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

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Okay, that's what that feels like.

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

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

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That was a fun experience.

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

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

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evolution, is simply getting that seniority, getting that power

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with all of the situations, is...

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

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held high and I could do this.

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I could still have seniority there.

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I still had my power.

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That's that.

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It's not super serious at a spirit level.

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The soul is trying to simply experience and evolve.

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

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more accepting of the change myself.

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

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Every single day I am grounding.

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

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

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spend the whole time grounding.

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

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definition, in some sense, anyway.

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

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

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felt really grounded and centered.

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That gives you a clue already.

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Grounding is around feeling grounded.

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feeling centered.

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

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from us to the center of the earth.

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

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the root chakra, it's survival chakra.

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It's literally around a safety security on earth.

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

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a connection with the earth.

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

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

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it perfectly, that's absolutely fine.

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It does not need to be perfect.

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

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

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It's exactly at the right speed.

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It's absolutely fine.

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Take that pressure off.

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

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

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Was this perfect or not?

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

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It can be very simple, very playful.

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

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Okay.

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

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

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

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anything that's not serving me.

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

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I'll still be releasing a whole lot more.

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As I've practiced over the years.

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

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

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

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

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

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You can do it anywhere.

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

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

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without having to go to someone else.

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

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

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

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where nobody's going to disturb you.

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

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

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

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

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

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10 minutes won't be longer than that.

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Join me when you're ready.

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

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you can take some time for yourself.

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

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

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

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with at the minute as well.

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

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

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

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right to the centre of the earth.

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

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way down to the centre of the earth.

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

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You know the earth nourishes us.

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

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

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

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And allow the earth to help you.

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

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

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down to the centre of the earth.

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Breathe.

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

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wanders, that's okay, bring it back.

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

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

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

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

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

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the situation, let that release.

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Watch the ribbons go.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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that are not in your highest good.

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You can let them go away, breathe.

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

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

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little icky, you can let that go as well.

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Watch it being released.

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

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

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then that starts flowing up as well.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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beautiful earth energy and brings it up.

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

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And that's grounding.

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That's where you're grounding yourself.

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

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well, and keep running the earth energy.

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

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

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

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

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That's the funny part.

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

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this, you don't have to do that.

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Play like a little three year old kid.

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

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

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

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spirit level, you know what to do.

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

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

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

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

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lot better experience for you as well.

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

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

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also shake your body a little bit.

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

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

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

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

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that's getting released when you ground.

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So I highly encourage you to ground.

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

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

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Good, good job.

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So grounding is definitely really powerful.

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

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

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Sometimes, some situations can be really charged as well.

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

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can have a little bit more charge.

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

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

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Like you might need to ground a little bit more.

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You might need to do some other tools as well.

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But grounding is definitely a really, really great start.

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

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

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

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theory, still keeps it very playful.

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So you are encouraged to download it at ArtOfLifeCenter.com/grounding/

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I'll repeat that.

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It's ArtOfLifeCenter.com/grounding/.

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This is where you get the ebook.

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And then I'm launching a life makeover program.

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It's art therapy meditation based program that is supposed to really

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So this is a five module based course, takes you about 10 weeks, assuming

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you're doing one class every week, takes you about 10 weeks to do the program.

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And then there's some other bonus meditations and a

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The whole program is really supported so you can reach out to me.

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You can do live calls, you can do emails as well.

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It's guaranteed to shift your life.

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If you feel like it's not happening, then I do offer a risk free

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The program starts in January and I'm accepting a waitlist right now.

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You can check the program at www.

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artoflifecenter.com/art/.

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So again, that is artoflifecenter.com/art/.

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So I will see you there.

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Thank you so much for tuning into this episode.

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

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thank you so much for listening.

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And if you find this podcast helpful, I would really appreciate

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if you can share it with others or if you can leave a review.

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I really want to share these tools and tips to create a better life with everyone

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because I believe that these are tools we should all have to live a more grounded

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life, to live a more successful life.

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So your vote on this and your reviews will be really helpful.

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I will see you next time with another episode.

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Till then, wish you the very best.

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Keep grounding.

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Keep smiling.

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