In the "Mindful You" podcast episode, Alan Carroll interviews meditation expert Karina Cury, delving into holistic well-being and the transformative journey of healing through meditation. Karina emphasizes a comprehensive approach to wellness and discusses the therapeutic aspects of meditation, highlighting its role in promoting inner peace. The episode explores the profound influence of the mind on shaping experiences, touches on the pillars of mindfulness for a balanced life, and addresses overcoming traumas through mindfulness practices. The conversation encourages a focus on positivity, offering valuable insights into fostering mental clarity and embracing a mindful approach to life.
About The Guest:
Karina Cury is a holistic life coach and author. She specializes in empowering her clients to uncover hidden blocks that may be holding them back from their true potential, then guides them to find fulfillment, balance and inner peace. Many of her clients have suffered from depression and found themselves in a downward spiral of medications, which only masked the issues and made them worse. Through a holistic and personalized compassionate approach, she supports their journey of growth and self-discovery, to free themselves of the chains that have been binding them.
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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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Welcome back, everybody, to the mindful, new
Alan Carroll:podcast, where we go to the gymnasium of mindfulness. And we
Alan Carroll:hear the various practices and exercises and wisdom from people
Alan Carroll:who are journeying down the mindfulness path. And today our
Alan Carroll:guest is Karina curry. Karina emigrated from Brazil when she
Alan Carroll:was 18 years old, came to the United States to discover the
Alan Carroll:magic and the splendor and the wonders of this great America
Alan Carroll:that she envisioned in our mind. And when she arrived, she
Alan Carroll:discovered that it wasn't quite the way that she thought it was
Alan Carroll:going to be. So she experienced over the years bouts of
Alan Carroll:depression, not well being, which she got involved in
Alan Carroll:holistic studies, and began to spend more time in the holistic
Alan Carroll:world and began through holistic practices, beginning to heal and
Alan Carroll:balance the energies in her body. She describes herself as
Alan Carroll:an holistic life coach. And she gets into a definition of whole
Alan Carroll:holistic, what it means she wrote a great book. And the
Alan Carroll:title of it is awakening the, the journey from medication, to
Alan Carroll:meditation, thinking about the pharmaceutical companies and how
Alan Carroll:they want to solve problems with pharmaceutical products, as well
Alan Carroll:as the holistic approach, where you use the more natural kind of
Alan Carroll:solutions in order to stabilize the energy. So she had lots of
Alan Carroll:wonderful things to share. Lots of great energy, lots of
Alan Carroll:enthusiasm, lots of authenticity. Just very
Alan Carroll:comfortable having a conversation with Karina and I
Alan Carroll:know that you will enjoy listening to her, sing her song,
Alan Carroll:sing her song of mindfulness. So please welcome Karina curry, to
Alan Carroll:the mindful you podcast. Well, please welcome Karina to the
Alan Carroll:mindful you podcast. Thank you very much for being with us
Alan Carroll:today. Karina,
Karina Cury:thank you for having me, Ellen.
Alan Carroll:I was reading about your background, your
Alan Carroll:journey that you've been on your entire life that's led you
Alan Carroll:definitely down a spiritual path. And one of the words that
Alan Carroll:you use a lot in terms of your description is the holistic
Alan Carroll:conversation. And I think it's important for our audience to
Alan Carroll:have someone like yourself, let's go into the holistic, the
Alan Carroll:meaning of holistic, so at least we understand what the meaning
Alan Carroll:of a holistic is. And then for fun, also just your journey that
Alan Carroll:got you into that holistic tillow Whoa, that can't quite
Alan Carroll:say what I want to say, into that holistic conversation. So
Alan Carroll:let's just go for a little bit of the history and then a little
Alan Carroll:understanding of the holistic conversation which tising
Alan Carroll:clearly to mindfulness, okay,
Unknown:holistic, the word mean means whole rate. And the whole
Unknown:means Madi, baton, body, mind, body, and spirit connection.
Unknown:Because we're not just this matter, this matter is the
Unknown:vessel that carries your soul. So
Alan Carroll:the physical body is, is the vessel that carries
Alan Carroll:the spirit or the soul. And so there's the physical component
Alan Carroll:of our reality. And
Unknown:we need it we need this matter. And when you were
Unknown:talking about the ego earlier, you need that ego you need all
Unknown:these things to be here in this earth, you know, to have this
Unknown:human experience because our soul our spirit is energy and it
Unknown:doesn't and has no beginning or no end, it'll continue on. It
Unknown:will take a different form when we leave this earth but it's
Unknown:it's there's no end to it, right? So we're here to
Unknown:experience this life, pain, sorrow, happiness, everything
Unknown:that it comes with humanity. So for you on your journey, you
Unknown:know, it's it's a learning experience here in this earth.
Unknown:And you go through trials and tribulations right and to learn
Unknown:the word the mind comes on is to learn to deal with the things
Unknown:that we You have to do in this human body, you know, diseases,
Unknown:pains, losing people, you know, the pain of sorrow. So, if
Unknown:they're, if you're not in connection with everything is in
Unknown:connection, whatever goes on in your mind, it retaliates into
Unknown:your body, and that's when the body gets sick, right? Because I
Unknown:believe that all sickness has to do with trauma, childhood, PTSD,
Unknown:anything that we endure in life, we don't if you don't heal, and
Unknown:that's when diseases appear in the body. So if you're not
Unknown:connected mind, body, and spirit. And that's when those
Unknown:things start to happening. I immigrated here from Brazil, I
Unknown:was 18 years old, I wanted to be a horse trainer. And I had, you
Unknown:know, a tough childhood. I wanted to escape Brazil. And so
Unknown:I came here with all these dreams of, you know, having a
Unknown:better life, being able to do what a woman and be into
Unknown:whatever I want to be a horse trainer for one, two. That's
Alan Carroll:right, this is America.
Unknown:Exactly. So, um, things didn't turn out the way you
Unknown:know, I envision I, you know, you go through life, you meet a
Unknown:lot of different people. And they're all have their own path,
Unknown:their own journey they're on. And I'm not necessarily saying
Unknown:that people that I met were bad, they were going through their
Unknown:own learning experiences, right. And I think sometimes we feel
Unknown:we're not connected, we also hurt people. Because we are
Unknown:hurting hurt people hurt people. So going through these things,
Unknown:and then to the fact that I was not myself, I didn't have the
Unknown:knowledge that I have today. So I went through a lot of
Unknown:suffering. That suffering down led me to the path of
Unknown:depression. And I was I went through a really tough divorce,
Unknown:I had two children, two small children, no money, no
Unknown:connections, no family, and I felt really lost. And I, my
Unknown:friends were like, Okay, you got to do something. So at the time,
Unknown:they're like, Okay, I know the psychiatrists, you're gonna go
Unknown:blah, blah, blah. My, I have a huge problem now, with the
Unknown:knowledge that I have with pharmaceutical companies. I
Unknown:believe that they like to enslave people into, you know,
Unknown:into medication. So you go in, and you meet with your
Unknown:psychiatrist to give you 30 minutes of her time, and, you
Unknown:know, $300 a consult and you're, you tell her what's going on in
Unknown:her life. She's like, Okay, you're depressed. So I'm going
Unknown:to prescribe you medication. Well, then come back in two
Unknown:weeks, we'll talk about more well, then you come over there.
Unknown:And you know, she spends 15 minutes here listening to what
Unknown:you have to say she's like, Okay, well guess is, we're going
Unknown:to up your dose, and then they up your dose. And now I have, I
Unknown:can't sleep, I'm taking this medication, the highest dose of
Unknown:this medication, I can sleep, okay, we're gonna give you a
Unknown:different medication now that you take before you go to bed.
Unknown:So you can sleep. Well, now I'm having these anxiety attacks,
Unknown:right, every time I have to go to work. So let's let me put you
Unknown:on another medication. Sure. Yeah, so and pharmaceutical
Unknown:companies, they want that they want you to stay on all these
Unknown:medications for the rest of your life. And those doctors are not
Unknown:telling people what the side effects are to this medications
Unknown:they are they're just like solving that problem. Right now.
Unknown:They're masking that they're not solving the problem. They're
Unknown:masking the problem, right? Because I need healing. I need
Unknown:like deep rooted healing. And so for 10 years, I'm on this
Unknown:medication until my mother passed away and I was really and
Unknown:she always talked about just like how you you know, you need
Unknown:to do more holistic stuff, and you know, I don't believe in
Unknown:medication, blah, blah, blah. I'm like, yeah, when she passed
Unknown:away, you know, the synchronicities of the universe.
Unknown:This coach, this holistic life coach, kinda like that I've been
Unknown:following for a while, I decided to give her a call and set up an
Unknown:appointment. And so I've been on this path of healing now for
Unknown:four years and I was able to get off medication. My doctor didn't
Unknown:want me to get off but I was able to get off medication using
Unknown:my own protocol, like my own research and everything. You
Unknown:know, people really need to realize they need to take charge
Unknown:of their health, their life, you know, you are in charge of your
Unknown:life and your happiness and you know, you only you can change
Unknown:things and make things better for yourself. So, I took charge
Unknown:and i She changed my life. I was so impressed with with the work
Unknown:she was doing with me and everybody else and I started
Unknown:going through all these retreats for To retreats, and I decided
Unknown:to become a coach myself because I wanted to do that for people I
Unknown:wanted to pay forward. I wrote a book. And I tell people, my, my,
Unknown:my journey and how I was able to get off medication.
Alan Carroll:I love the title of the book, go tell tell the
Alan Carroll:audience the title, it was a great title.
Unknown:Yeah, awakening a journey from medication to
Unknown:meditation.
Alan Carroll:Yeah, that's a that's a sweet way of you know,
Alan Carroll:it's almost the same word. Yeah, exactly, almost the same word.
Unknown:So go on. So through meditation and a lot of reading
Unknown:and researching and deep diving into spirituality, I, in some
Unknown:plant medicine as well, I was able to change my life, and I'm
Unknown:the happiest I've ever been, I take zero medication. I only
Unknown:take supplements, I am and I meditate every day, sometimes
Unknown:two hours a day, I live a very holistic life, I also take care
Unknown:of my vessel and on my body, I eat healthy exercise, because
Unknown:it's not just meditating, right is the whole process of things,
Unknown:you have to take care of everything, mind, body, and
Unknown:spirit. Because there's a connection there. And if one
Unknown:part is not working well, then everything is out of balance.
Alan Carroll:The I find that the the you mentioned the
Alan Carroll:sources of disease. I'm currently thinking that based on
Alan Carroll:the people that I hear and talk to on YouTube 99% of the
Alan Carroll:physical issues that are happening in the physical body
Alan Carroll:are caused by imbalances, and the or the inability, not even
Alan Carroll:the imbalances, the inability to balance the thoughts that you
Alan Carroll:are thinking inside your head. And, and the ability to meditate
Alan Carroll:is a a vehicle that you can use to become better management of
Alan Carroll:the thoughts that you that are that are blowing up all the time
Alan Carroll:and in your consciousness. So let's, let's talk a little bit
Alan Carroll:about the meditation piece and the value of meditation in the
Alan Carroll:as a as a tool to use in the holistic path.
Unknown:So change your thoughts change your life, right? Your
Unknown:thoughts are very powerful. Matter of fact, if I sit here
Unknown:and talk to you about a lemon, and I said, Imagine the lemon
Unknown:you put in the lemon, your mouth, you start salivating.
Unknown:Right? That's how powerful your mind is. There's no lemon around
Unknown:here. I've been just talking to you. I've started salivating.
Unknown:Right? Right? Imagine being able to being able to do that with
Unknown:your with everything. But we are so because we are so programmed
Unknown:from childhood, to think a certain way to do a certain way
Unknown:by our parents, by our teachers, I mean education here, you know,
Unknown:they're not teaching us anything, and our education is
Unknown:terrible. I mean, we need to go back 1000s of years to take from
Unknown:the you need to teach the children to think for themselves
Unknown:to be in charge, the teachers shouldn't have a reverse whole
Unknown:row with the kid. And they shouldn't be teaching the
Unknown:teacher. That's how they shouldn't be playing around.
Unknown:Because we're, we're just training people here. And so
Unknown:we're trained their mind not to be free. And so we're always
Unknown:worrying about the past or worrying about the future. We're
Unknown:not living the present. And that's a problem. If you're not
Unknown:because the past doesn't belong to you anymore. Everything that
Unknown:you've done back there is like a foreign country. You don't live
Unknown:there. You know, in the future. I remember
Alan Carroll:I remember all those things that happened to me
Alan Carroll:in the past, you better believe and I'm not going to forgive
Alan Carroll:those people either. For all the things they've done for me, I
Alan Carroll:got to keep my past there. I'm not going to let it go. Oh, no,
Alan Carroll:no, no. Exactly.
Unknown:And people like that can never free themselves. And
Unknown:that's anger turns your starts turning to disease. Right
Alan Carroll:anger the anger right the resentment and the
Alan Carroll:anger you have towards things in the past. Eat away at you. Yes.
Alan Carroll:Suck up your your lifeforce, you're using your your resources
Alan Carroll:to fight a battle that is a bunch of windmills. It's not
Alan Carroll:real, but you spend your life defending and arguing and things
Alan Carroll:that happen in the past. And
Unknown:that's why I no longer watch TV. I don't longer watch
Unknown:movies that are not uplifting or anything like that, or podcasts
Unknown:or and uplifting everything that I do because the mind is so
Unknown:subjective. And even those people have been thought those
Unknown:thoughts are not yours or not theirs has been given to them.
Unknown:Okay, bye dog by the the system that was created created to to
Unknown:this empower people. So the all these thoughts and things that
Unknown:we're giving are very disempowering. And when people
Unknown:realize that they're very powerful and everything they
Unknown:need within, then the we can change the world, but we lost
Unknown:the connection, right? We lost that spiritual connection with
Unknown:mother nature with everything that's with God, because what is
Unknown:God God is every living thing that is here on Earth is not
Unknown:like being in heaven, you know, judging people, or that people
Unknown:should be fearful of it. No, you are God, God's within you. So,
Unknown:you. So when people realize that, that you are all powerful,
Unknown:they can change, but it takes work. And meditation is a really
Unknown:good way to do it. And I tell my clients, I'm like, start slow.
Unknown:And people have this idea that meditation is something you
Unknown:have, you cannot think of anything, you just have to sit
Unknown:there and your mind has to be blank. No, it's not. Because
Unknown:your mind is never going to be blank, right? It's always going
Unknown:on, you just the thoughts will come. And you acknowledge them,
Unknown:and you move on, right? Acknowledge the thought, and you
Unknown:move on. And I always tell people start slow. Everything is
Unknown:practice. I mean, Jimi Hendrix did not was not born with a
Unknown:bullish guitar, you know, or any map anybody to master anything
Unknown:is because they practice. So everything takes practice. And I
Unknown:ended the power of small steps, five minutes a day. That's how I
Unknown:started my coach inspired and empowered me to write my book,
Unknown:because I always talked about writing a book, and she goes,
Unknown:open your computer, 10 minutes a day, write one phrase, whatever,
Unknown:one paragraph, and then that one paragraph every day turn into,
Unknown:you know, a chapter every day. So it's the power of small
Unknown:steps, and people don't realize that take five minutes, instead
Unknown:of like, staring at this black hole, that's your phone, you
Unknown:know, or watch how people are living their lives. Why don't
Unknown:you think about how you can live your life better. And just five
Unknown:minutes, start with a guided meditation, you know, do deep
Unknown:breath work, you know, there's tons of videos on YouTube, of
Unknown:guided meditations and breath work, and start your day like
Unknown:that. Were like, the powerful of gratitude. And I remember when
Unknown:my coach used to tell me that, and I was like, Man, I can't
Unknown:think of one thing that I'm grateful for. But then as you
Unknown:start thinking, it was like, wait, I have everything that I
Unknown:need. But it took me a while to realize that, but it's like I
Unknown:would, I would say three things that I was grateful every day
Unknown:that I would just dig down deep. You know, I'm grateful that I
Unknown:woke up this morning, you know, I grateful that I can go to my
Unknown:kitchen I have food to eat, you know, and just like small
Unknown:things, and now it's part of my daily routine. You know, I wake
Unknown:up I do my gratitude, my affirmations I do my meditation
Unknown:and if I like I just went on a little vacation and you know I
Unknown:was with was a girl strip and you were like always busy and
Unknown:added man, it was so weird non be able to have my routine every
Unknown:day, you know, I felt totally discombobulated. Not being able
Unknown:to that to do that, you know, but it's very powerful. And it's
Unknown:just you do it all you need 30 days, 30 days to to create a
Unknown:good habit.
Alan Carroll:I'm I believe everything you're saying is
Alan Carroll:absolutely the truth. The two there's something about
Alan Carroll:meditation, or something about mindfulness, any any vehicle
Alan Carroll:that you can use, to taste to taste the, the nectar, of the
Alan Carroll:space of mind of mindfulness of I often use the word, stillness,
Alan Carroll:pockets of stillness. Meditation is closing the eyes. And
Alan Carroll:immediately if you close your eyes, you've eliminated a huge
Alan Carroll:amount of, of chaos, which is causing the the leaves to stir
Alan Carroll:up in your mind. Those leaves the thoughts. And so what I
Alan Carroll:thought it'd be fun, if you would, is take us on a little
Alan Carroll:guided meditation, using breath work or whatever technique you'd
Alan Carroll:like to use for a couple of minutes so we can we can try to
Alan Carroll:taste the nectar of Your wisdom with our physical body.
Unknown:You want me to guide you in a medication? Yeah, I'd
Alan Carroll:like that. Okay, yeah. I'm gonna close my eyes.
Alan Carroll:Because I want to you know, get the chaos stuff gone. So that's
Alan Carroll:so
Unknown:yeah, close your eyes if you feel like in Yeah. And
Unknown:take a deep breath. In and fill your belly like a baby you know
Unknown:when a baby breathe, and you see his, the belly gets really full
Unknown:and hold it there for a couple seconds and release it and take
Unknown:a deep breath in. Again, fill your belly
Unknown:hold it and release. Now imagine a light and very white bright
Unknown:light coming from above.
Unknown:And is going in into your head and is coming down through your
Unknown:neck, it's engulfing your heart. Your belly is going through you
Unknown:all the way through Mother Earth, all the way to the center
Unknown:of Earth. This white bright light has been cleansed. Mother
Unknown:Earth is taking everything that does not serve you anymore. And
Unknown:is transmuting into unconditional love. Now imagine
Unknown:the light coming back through you again. Going up your spine
Unknown:through your heart, and your throat and your brain and all
Unknown:the way up the sky. And this light is just bring you love
Unknown:forgiveness, acceptance, self love, self care and you feel in
Unknown:the cells of your body the healing power of this white,
Unknown:bright light and now feel the light expanding out of your body
Unknown:creating a bright white bubble and you're inside this bubble
Unknown:and this light and makes you safe. It makes you warm. Makes
Unknown:you feel the love of the universe and makes you know that
Unknown:everything in this earth is for you. It makes you feel powerful.
Unknown:Makes you feel like you can conquer anything. You feel brave
Unknown:take a deep breath in and soak all the love into the cells of
Unknown:your body. Feel your body being healed by the powerful bright
Unknown:love that this light is bringing into your life
Unknown:and when you're ready you can gently open your eyes
Alan Carroll:that's a guided meditation. Powerful, so people
Alan Carroll:who want to meditate well you just experienced meditation. And
Alan Carroll:what were some of the experiences that you experience
Alan Carroll:when you do meditation.
Unknown:Like my body feels like it's like everything that you
Unknown:heard I feel in my body I feel the cells of my body connecting
Unknown:to this powerful love light that that the Creator gives us you
Unknown:know that everything we have, we need everything we need we have.
Unknown:And I feel all powerful and I feel like I'm enough. And I feel
Unknown:I feel cared for, you know, I feel the oneness with the
Unknown:universe. You know, because we're all part I call it we are
Unknown:God equals we're all particles of God.
Alan Carroll:Gotta goals you call them.
Unknown:Yeah, we're all particles, yes for God because
Unknown:we're particles of particles of God. And that's what we are we
Unknown:just need to know how to connect and feel where we are, you know,
Unknown:because like I said, we lost the connection, we lost the
Unknown:connection with everything with nature, we're so caught up in
Unknown:this materialistic world, you know, let's watch when you watch
Unknown:TV, they're all offering a new thing and you feel like you're
Unknown:needed and here if you feel sad, take this drug and it'll make
Unknown:you feel better you know, and like I said, our minds so
Unknown:subjective, that we we think we need all these things. These are
Unknown:things that are out there in the world to feel better we don't
Unknown:everything we we need to feel better. It's the love and
Unknown:connection of the universe, with God with creator with source
Unknown:with spirit, whatever you want to call you know.
Alan Carroll:I when we're talking about the God we all are
Alan Carroll:sons and daughters of God, the mind is going to say Karina,
Alan Carroll:what are you smoking some smoky to wacky tobacco? Come on,
Alan Carroll:you're not a God, your your, your lady from Brazil, come wake
Alan Carroll:wake up, wake up your God is that you got you got some big
Alan Carroll:ego, I tell you. And so then to navigate through that, is if
Alan Carroll:it's like doing research, I don't know, oh, my God or not
Alan Carroll:God, been if I am a God, what would God do? What would God
Alan Carroll:say? If I was a god? What would God do? Well, God would be a lot
Alan Carroll:nicer. Yes, God would be a lot more compassionate.
Unknown:And God said, When you see someone that's doing
Unknown:something that may make, may may make you feel not as happy, have
Unknown:compassion over the person, you don't know what the person is
Unknown:going through why they're acting like that. Because you don't
Unknown:know what you don't know. And when you gain this knowledge
Unknown:that you are God, you start seeing people with a lot more
Unknown:compassion. And that's when I understood that was all that
Unknown:when I start seeing people with different eyes, now I see people
Unknown:I have compassion over them. And I think, wow, you know, that
Unknown:person must have a tough time. And you know, and but I would
Unknown:like to go to towards that person and offer them some love,
Unknown:but everybody has to find in their, their own path and their
Unknown:own time, you know, and it took me I'm 48 now it took me 44
Unknown:years to find. So I think everybody is born with the
Unknown:knowledge but we lose it somehow. Right? But somehow in
Unknown:sometimes you have to hit in my case, hit rock bottom at to
Unknown:realize I got to do something, I got to do things differently.
Unknown:And then you start to look for deeper connections, you know,
Unknown:deeper things in life, and realize that material things
Unknown:don't bring you happiness, they never did. I mean, I see so many
Unknown:people that are so abundance financially, but they lack
Unknown:abundance and everything else. Right? So it's finding that
Unknown:abundance, realizing that abundance is if you have what
Unknown:you need, you have abundance and being happy, I mean are saying
Unknown:you can want things of course you can, you know, we're humans,
Unknown:but realizing that what do you do with that abundance? You
Unknown:know, how, how do you use that abundance. And that's, I love
Unknown:when I see people who were naturally generous with their
Unknown:abundance, and it's amazing. So you know, it takes time and it
Unknown:takes practice but if I can do it, anybody can do it. Believe
Unknown:me, if you saw me 10 years ago, I was a holy mass. So and when
Unknown:you when you when your energy is not aligned, you know you you
Unknown:attract people that are in the same energy as you are. So as
Unknown:attracting people like me at the time, so everybody that I had in
Unknown:my life was a holy mess. Once you're change that then you
Unknown:start attracting people that are in alignment with you. And it's,
Unknown:it's great. Although I love my friends now, I always loved my
Unknown:friends. But now we're connecting on a deeper level,
Unknown:you know, we have so much understanding and love and
Unknown:compassion for each other and for the world, there's no
Unknown:judgment. And that is a powerful thing to become non judgmental.
Unknown:And it's like I said, it took me a long time, but there's hope
Unknown:for everyone.
Alan Carroll:non judgmental, is has to be one of the pillars of
Alan Carroll:mindfulness to define voice mindfulness. Well, mindfulness
Alan Carroll:is a space in consciousness in which you watch the show, but
Alan Carroll:you don't judge the show. And, and that's a that's a everybody,
Alan Carroll:everybody has to has a show. They watch in the outer world,
Alan Carroll:they wake up, they plug their five senses into the world, and
Alan Carroll:boom, I'm in the movie. But everybody is judging everything
Alan Carroll:they're seeing coming from I know. You don't need to tell me.
Alan Carroll:I know, I know. Yeah, I know. I know. Yeah. Yeah. I know. I
Alan Carroll:know. I Weiwei shutter. Let me tell you I know, I know,
Alan Carroll:everybody has this immediate I know, into the world, which,
Alan Carroll:which keeps things pretty much solidified. There's no There's
Alan Carroll:no fluidity to I know, there's no opportunity to create
Alan Carroll:something new if I, if I know. So. So you mentioned earlier
Alan Carroll:about? Well, the opposite to I know, would be? I don't know.
Alan Carroll:And so talk a little bit about the power of I don't know.
Unknown:So I think that a lot of people act like that, because
Unknown:one of the things that really hold us back, I think one of the
Unknown:biggest problems we have in that has been an input in our, in our
Unknown:brains, you know, there was not, it didn't, I didn't think it was
Unknown:given to me. It's fear. Fear is what holds people back. And
Unknown:fear. When people don't know they, they, they they act like
Unknown:that. Because the fear of something, whatever it is,
Unknown:right? The fear of being judged, the fear of being laughed at the
Unknown:fear of
Alan Carroll:making a mistake, I want to make a mistake.
Alan Carroll:Exactly. Don't make mistake, don't do anything. You don't
Alan Carroll:want to make a mistake. Exactly.
Unknown:But that is what I'm talking about. When I talked
Unknown:about how we teach kids, you know, you got to teach them that
Unknown:failure is okay. And that's how you learn. You know, there's
Unknown:power, there's power, and I don't even like to say use the
Unknown:word failure because it's never is failure, but the power of
Unknown:making mistakes, that's how you learn. You have to make mistakes
Unknown:to learn. So people should not fear those things, but how to
Unknown:get rid of fear, right? Because every now and then fear pops up
Unknown:and, and is the ego, right? The ego, the biggest his biggest
Unknown:fear is to die. And so there's always that, you know, you have
Unknown:to learn to control the ego. And sometimes I have a full
Unknown:conversation with him, you know, it was my ego, I go, Dude,
Unknown:you're not dying, calm down. It's okay, we're gonna live you
Unknown:know, or fear. One of the biggest fears that people have
Unknown:is fear of lack of abundance, they people are scared of being
Unknown:poor, people are scared of not having things that's why people
Unknown:don't take chances, don't go try a new job, they stay unhappy on
Unknown:that job that they're at, because their fear of not having
Unknown:money. And all these thoughts were given to us by our parents,
Unknown:by church by, you know, religious institutions by the
Unknown:government, you know, all these things that you watch on TV or
Unknown:your parent, you know, like, think about the our parents, you
Unknown:know, they came from that generation of posts. We're we're
Unknown:we're to eat everything on your plate because we don't know when
Unknown:we're gonna have food and you know, again, well that messes
Unknown:with people's head stays. For example, I had this thought that
Unknown:I was not smart. And it was given to me by my mother for
Unknown:things she didn't know judgment here. She didn't know what she
Unknown:was doing. She got married at 18 years old and you know, whole
Unknown:story there. But I remember sitting down and doing some math
Unknown:work and I you know, there was like, okay, little Johnny has
Unknown:two apples in any gives one apple two, you know, and I just
Unknown:could not get that. Understand that problem. And she said, My
Unknown:gosh, you're just nuts. Mario Are you that until I was able to
Unknown:heal that heart, seven year old that was not smart. I couldn't,
Unknown:that that's why this book is so it was so powerful to write this
Unknown:book because I used to think I was not smart enough to write a
Unknown:book. And so to overcome that, that thoughts, you know, and
Unknown:that fear and all these childhood traumas. And so all
Unknown:these thoughts were given to us, and we got to get rid of them,
Unknown:you know. And there's, it, like I said, is not simple. It takes
Unknown:work, but it's doable, because if I, like I said, I can do it,
Unknown:anybody can do it. But just sometimes you just have to have
Unknown:a conversation. Is this really true? Am I not smart? No, that's
Unknown:not true. I'm smart. You know, look, all the things that
Unknown:overcome in my life, you know, so I have, you know, I have
Unknown:several conversations a day sometimes with the, with my ego
Unknown:is this is this true? What's not true, be quiet. I'm smart,
Unknown:dammit.
Alan Carroll:That's really true. The the the, there's a
Alan Carroll:psychological philosophy called psycho synthesis, where they say
Alan Carroll:that you have to use the metaphor of the orchestra, and
Alan Carroll:the conductor. And the individual instruments are not
Alan Carroll:playing together. They're each playing their own tune, the
Alan Carroll:radical, the liberal, the aggressive, the non aggressive,
Alan Carroll:the Mother, the Father, the daughter, that he played
Alan Carroll:different roles, depending on the situation. And so the
Alan Carroll:radical argues with the liberal, the liberal with the Republican
Alan Carroll:or whatever it is, these battles that go on. And they say that
Alan Carroll:what you do is you imagine yourself in the movie theater,
Alan Carroll:sitting in the movie theater with a bag of popcorn and your
Alan Carroll:favorite drink, and you're watching The you create an image
Alan Carroll:for the character of Karina the, the the radical? And what's the
Alan Carroll:radical gonna look like? What are the needs of the radical
Alan Carroll:part of you, the the hippie, or whatever that radical part is.
Alan Carroll:And then you have the conservative part, what does
Alan Carroll:that part look like, then you have them up on stage, and then
Alan Carroll:they start to talk to each other. And as they begin to talk
Alan Carroll:about the needs, I have this need, I have this need, I have
Alan Carroll:this need, I have that. And pretty soon they begin to
Alan Carroll:synthesize, and they call a synthesis. And so then the now
Alan Carroll:there's two instruments to play together, then you get two more,
Alan Carroll:then pretty soon the conductor, which is the higher self, is
Alan Carroll:able to get all the instruments to play the music together. And
Alan Carroll:so when you talk about talking to each other, that that already
Alan Carroll:means that you have dis identified from something, and
Alan Carroll:that you're able to have a conversation with something
Alan Carroll:inside of you that before was you. Now you have a friend
Alan Carroll:called your ego, it pops up and says hi and talks to you. And
Alan Carroll:then you got another part of you, which I'll call the
Alan Carroll:observer, observing the ego, the high that the like the higher
Alan Carroll:self, or the conductor of the orchestra says, Hey, ego, how
Alan Carroll:are you doing today? What do you want? Well, I just gave up here
Alan Carroll:some ice cream, okay, good, then go and go over there. And so now
Alan Carroll:conducting the conversations, but I have to be able to see the
Alan Carroll:different conversations inside of me. When When mindfulness and
Alan Carroll:meditation allows you to create a space. Yes, that allows you to
Alan Carroll:see, and then you no longer react. Yes, you now respond. And
Alan Carroll:there's a world of difference between impulsive controls, and
Alan Carroll:non impulsive controls, reactive and most people without
Alan Carroll:mindfulness and meditation and holistic healing are more
Alan Carroll:reactive. Why no? Wrong? Yes. I immediately will paint the
Alan Carroll:interpretation of what they say me immediately without No, no,
Alan Carroll:no. This is it's like, you got to recognize that the paint is
Alan Carroll:from the past what your mom told you. It's your programming, you
Alan Carroll:got to realize that maybe it's not true mom. Yes,
Unknown:exactly. And you have in there's a thought and you
Unknown:attach a feeling to it. What is the thought? What is it that
Unknown:thought cause me and what kind of feeling right? Yeah. And so
Unknown:that's when you when you work on manifestation, you have to have
Unknown:a thought and you have to think about the feeling of their
Unknown:thoughts. So like, for example, you want to heal your body,
Unknown:right? So you think about healing. You have a headache,
Unknown:let's say and you think about that headache is gone and you
Unknown:think about not just the headache is gone, but how would
Unknown:you feel when the headache is gone? So you attach that thought
Unknown:to the feeling and that is very powerful
Alan Carroll:knowledge We talked about the feeling and we
Alan Carroll:talked about the lemon in the mouth. Exactly the feeling of
Alan Carroll:anger, righteous anger, that I have about something that
Alan Carroll:happened in the past that I hold on to now that that thoughts
Alan Carroll:that I have, have with have the emotion attacked, attacked
Alan Carroll:attached to it, which then causes me to behave in a certain
Alan Carroll:way based on my thoughts and my emotions, which even know will
Alan Carroll:cause damage.
Unknown:There's those called triggers, triggers or triggers.
Unknown:Yes. And so when you have that, that thought and that feeling,
Unknown:and then you're like, if some, somebody says to you something,
Unknown:you know, let's say, somebody said to me, Well, you're stupid.
Alan Carroll:Well, they're not stupid, you know?
Unknown:You know exactly what take me back to that feeling.
Unknown:When my mother told me, you know, I'm like, stupid, wait,
Unknown:who cares? What that person saying that person does not pay
Unknown:my bills. Like, that's what I tell my children is that person
Unknown:pays your bills, who cares what they're saying. But most
Alan Carroll:people can't do that. Most people can't. If I if
Alan Carroll:I say, Karina, you're stupid. What do you mean, I'm stupid. So
Alan Carroll:immediately, there's the automatic defense of the
Alan Carroll:identity. And the fact that you're not able to be sucked
Alan Carroll:into it means that you have transcended to a place of
Alan Carroll:observing that that trigger that you talked about got triggered.
Alan Carroll:And most people get triggered, but they'll know they're
Alan Carroll:triggered. I just know that you're wrong. And I'm right.
Alan Carroll:Yes. But
Unknown:is that that powerful that I told you? And that
Unknown:download came to me on a spiritual retreat? Of like
Unknown:seeing people and thinking, Oh, that person's hurt. Yes. Because
Unknown:hurt people hurt people. And nobody is in the right mind. I'm
Unknown:not, we never call somebody stupid or anything, you know. So
Unknown:but maybe back then, when I was really reactive, because I was,
Unknown:so I told you the 10 years ago, 1213 years ago, I was a holy
Unknown:mess. And I was going through a divorce, my ex husband would set
Unknown:me on fire, like anything, he would say, I would just go
Unknown:insane. Like these feelings, you know, take over me and I would
Unknown:be so angry that I made my and that's you know, like, cause it
Unknown:became so became so. So over overcame everything in me that I
Unknown:became the press that I like, no longer. Like I had to get out of
Unknown:bed and put on a happy face for my children. And then I'll take
Unknown:them school and and go back to bed crawl might cry myself to
Unknown:sleep, you know, and it's just like I couldn't, like I I'm a
Unknown:person that I'm like a doer, right, I get things I couldn't
Unknown:figure out how to do things like my brain was just this fog to go
Unknown:over. You know, I just couldn't figure out how to get things
Unknown:done. I would look at things and I would see the dishes and I'm
Unknown:like, I couldn't figure out how to do the dishes like my brain
Unknown:couldn't. It was the most horrifying. It was the most
Unknown:horrific feeling thinking about now like thinking about myself
Unknown:back then. Right? But it was because I was so in such pain,
Unknown:such anger and, and fear, you know, fear and Yoda says fear
Unknown:leads to anger. Anger leads to hate and hate leads to
Unknown:suffering.
Alan Carroll:You're just pretty smart. Say that say that again.
Alan Carroll:I like Yoda stuff.
Unknown:I did do fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate
Unknown:leads to suffering. So basically, suffering comes from
Unknown:fear.
Alan Carroll:Then you ask yourself, fear, fear are things
Alan Carroll:that are a threat to your identity. And if you can begin
Alan Carroll:to disassociate yourself from your identity, then the things
Alan Carroll:that we're fearful are no longer no longer bother you. But in
Alan Carroll:order to do that, you have to forgive that which you have said
Alan Carroll:is bad that you're afraid of and most people can't forgive. And
Alan Carroll:that ties in we do gratefulness, conversation for great
Alan Carroll:gratefulness as a shift of complaining about everything to
Alan Carroll:you know what there's, I could spend my time complaining. And I
Alan Carroll:can spend my time looking at being grateful for being alive
Alan Carroll:or being grateful to be in Americans to be grateful for
Alan Carroll:being having food and a family for being all of a sudden you
Alan Carroll:live in a world of gratitude and gratefulness. And you I like
Alan Carroll:what Eckhart Tolle talks about is what you focus on you give
Alan Carroll:life support to and so not not focus on gratefulness and give
Alan Carroll:life support to gratefulness rather than than get life
Alan Carroll:support to complaints.
Unknown:Your your energy goes where your thoughts go. So
Unknown:whatever you think your thoughts go to it, so if it's negative
Unknown:You know, then your energy goes towards negativity. And that's
Unknown:what you have to focus on positivity, you know, always and
Unknown:the unit in when you complain, what is complaining, claiming,
Unknown:you're claiming again. So you when you're saying I, universe,
Unknown:I'm just using this as an example, I hate my body, the
Unknown:universe to say, Oh, she hates her body when she wants to hate
Unknown:her body. So I'm just gonna give her more reasons for her to hate
Unknown:her body. So it continues to give you what you're claiming.
Unknown:So that's why I never ever say anything negative anymore. And
Unknown:when I hear people saying things negative, like, I went to visit
Unknown:a friend, and she's like, Oh, my God, you gain so much weight,
Unknown:and she's talking about her body. And I'm like, going, I'm
Unknown:going, you're beautiful. Oh, my gosh, what are you talking
Unknown:about? But it's like this so hard, because I had one friend,
Unknown:that I would go stop complaining, just You're so
Unknown:beautiful, while you keep saying that. And she said to me, who do
Unknown:you think you are Jesus or something. So I like I need
Unknown:sometimes, you know, you need to be careful how you say to
Unknown:people, because you don't want to come across as Oh, you know,
Unknown:your hair dries green. So, um, it's just to like, plant the
Unknown:seed in the person's mind that just, the more positive in the
Unknown:US, the more you will attract to your life positive things. And
Unknown:so when I see people saying negative things about
Unknown:themselves, it hurts me. And I'm like, No, say that ways, you
Unknown:know, because I used to be that person. And just, and you say so
Unknown:much that you, your brain doesn't know what you're saying
Unknown:is a joke, or you're just saying that you know, it thinks is
Unknown:true. So start believing all the things that you're saying. So
Unknown:whatever you say your brain believes the universe gives to
Unknown:you, you know, it's like it's so don't say it be positive,
Unknown:please. And
Alan Carroll:that's under your control. Exactly. But you have
Alan Carroll:to be awake enough to notice that you're you are about to say
Alan Carroll:something and you realize, you know, what, is that what I'm
Alan Carroll:going to say? Is that going to make the flowers grow in the
Alan Carroll:greenhouse, or that can make the flowers die in the greenhouse.
Alan Carroll:And usually, attack thoughts are defending of the ego thoughts
Alan Carroll:cause the flowers to die, whereas loving thoughts and
Alan Carroll:gratitude thoughts make the flowers grow.
Unknown:So it actually actually there was a scientific, I read a
Unknown:whole article about that they put different flowers and they
Unknown:would talk to the flowers, different ways, same flower,
Unknown:they plant three seeds, okay, and then one and it was saying
Unknown:You're beautiful, you're growing so beautiful, you're so
Unknown:powerful. And actually the flower grew faster better
Unknown:already. And more beautiful. And it's true if you can do that the
Unknown:powerful word the the power of words with the flower what can
Unknown:you imagine what you can do with your own life
Alan Carroll:and your own body
Unknown:and your own body? Yeah,
Alan Carroll:it was gone
Unknown:no every day I said thank you for this beautiful
Unknown:healthy body. Yep, who only wants to eat healthy foods only
Unknown:wants to exercise
Alan Carroll:thank you for this healthy body that exercise and
Alan Carroll:my diets probably not as good as yours my my wife each cycle
Alan Carroll:rabbit food she has diets Yes, he is probably the best food and
Alan Carroll:so healthy diet is definitely part of the part of the game. If
Alan Carroll:people wanted to reach out to you Corinne Karina what would be
Alan Carroll:ways that they could reach out and connect with you? So
Unknown:my websites the best way because you can book a call
Unknown:with me on my website is www dot Carina dot life is Ka ri na dot
Unknown:life L I F E and we can book a free call and we can see if you
Unknown:know whatever you're going through through life, changing
Unknown:jobs, relationships, or just wanting to be healthier,
Unknown:happier, you know, and I have great ways to help you do it.
Unknown:Reach out and we can talk and see for good fit for each other,
Unknown:you know.
Alan Carroll:Perfect, perfect. Yes, it Karina I just really
Alan Carroll:enjoyed our conversation. I enjoyed the insights that you
Alan Carroll:shared I, I take I take notes as I say it's like going to school
Alan Carroll:podcasts like I'm going to school. Yes. And I'm going to
Alan Carroll:I'm going to learn things I just didn't know. And you are able to
Alan Carroll:take your your experiences moving towards a similar target
Alan Carroll:that I'm moving towards in my consciousness and you were
Alan Carroll:sharing your experiences intuitively I can get it I can
Alan Carroll:get different form to the experiences, but your ability to
Alan Carroll:with authenticity. no clarity of thought and enthusiasm and No,
Alan Carroll:no, no blockage to the flow of energy was really a pleasure to
Alan Carroll:have you on as a guest on the mind for your podcast. And
Alan Carroll:there's
Unknown:Alan, there's no wrong or right way to do it, you know,
Unknown:you do what works for you. If it's two hours of meditation, or
Unknown:if it's five minutes of meditation, whatever works for
Unknown:you, you know, but we'll all gonna get there we will, because
Unknown:we're all working towards the same goal is to move out of 3d
Unknown:to five D. That's my goal. I want out of 3d I want to get to
Unknown:five D. Okay, so let's do it. Chapter. All
Alan Carroll:right. And I'll salute that banner. Thank Thank
Alan Carroll:you very much.
Unknown:Thank you. Thank you, gratitude. Gratitude
Alan Carroll:to you. Bye bye Karina curry.
Unknown:I think sellin