What is Divine Guidance? Who is it coming from and who is it for? 

I talk about this in this episode because sometimes we just don’t know who or what that voice is that’s telling us to do something. 

I really get into why you need to establish a practice now of listening to Divine Guidance – or as I like to say – How to get an answer from God. If you can trust in the answers for the small things you learn on, then you can have faith you’re receiving what you need for the big issues. 

In this episode: 

• How we receive messages through our body 
• The benefit of using these techniques in daily life for simple decisions 
• Why you need to start doing this TODAY 
• How trusting your Divine Guidance leads to overall connection to the world 

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Hello and welcome to the Connectedness Podcast.

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Just as you might have guessed, I talk

about connection and connectedness

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on this podcast, our connection with

everything in the world around us.

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Whether you see it or not, we're all

connected, and it doesn't matter if it's

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our dog, our cat, our God, our body.

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And I'll also talk about some more.

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Abstract connections like our career or

our land, our community, our emotions,

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your body, life is all about connection.

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So the sooner we recognize

that, the sooner we can have an

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easier, more meaningful life.

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I will talk about these connections

through different lenses.

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Things like synchronicities

and coincidences are just.

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It's really important that we pay

attention to all of this so we can

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live an easier, more meaningful life.

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So welcome to the show.

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I'm your host, Karen Cleveland.

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Hello, everyone.

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Welcome back.

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So great to have you here with me today.

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I want to talk about seeking

guidance, seeking divine

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guidance, looking for answers.

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A lot of times we feel like

we don't know the answers.

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We don't know what to do.

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We don't know what decision

we're supposed to make.

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I want to talk a little bit about how

I see living a life of oneness, of

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connectedness, helps you find the answers.

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First of all, I think it helps

you know the answers before you

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even have to ask the question.

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But even when you do have a question,

you have resources, I guess, tools to

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use to discern that divine guidance

from your busy, busy, busy head.

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and I know it can be hard.

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When you're in the middle of a situation,

something is breaking down or exploding

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all around you and you need an answer now.

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And when we're not grounded,

we're not centered.

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We have no idea what what that answer

might be, which direction to go.

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I want to speak just a little

bit to the importance of.

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beginning now to establish a practice,

to establish a system of receiving

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divine guidance, so that when you

really need it, you can rely on it.

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And I think that's the key is

you need to begin now to really

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tease it out, to figure it out.

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So that it's there when you need it.

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That doesn't mean if you need an answer

right now, if you're in the middle of

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the garbage right now, that doesn't

mean you can't also find an answer right

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now, through your own divine guidance.

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It just means it might

be easier in the future.

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If you take steps now.

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let's go, go over it.

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So what is divine guidance?

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What does that even mean?

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And what I mean by divine guidance, I

might also call it an answer from God.

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if you're praying to God for

something, do I take the job in

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Minneapolis or do I move to Florida?

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Right?

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If you have the question and

who do you think is going

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to give you the best answer?

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Do you think it's going

to be, from your God?

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Is it going to be from your soul?

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From your heart?

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Is it going to be your spirit guides?

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or is it going to be your, your siblings?

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Whoever.

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You think is going to be able

to provide that answer for you.

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That's what I mean by divine guidance.

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Whatever it is, your angels, whatever

you call that divine spark that

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lives both inside of us and outside

of us, whatever you call that.

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I want you to be able to understand

when you're receiving information,

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communication, guidance from them.

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Now, I believe that when we are

living in a state of, of conscious

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oneness or a state of knowing that

we're in this oneness, it helps us.

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To discern the information we're getting

and it's easier and I am actually teaching

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a class coming up on oneness and not

only will I address how to receive divine

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guidance, but also, connection with

the world around us connection with our

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soul and our body and our divine spirit.

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It's, it's going to be a whole

journey about living in this

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connected state, because I believe

you can have this knowing that

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everything's going to be okay.

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And that's what I've

really gotten from it.

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When I first started both animal

communication and, and my spiritual

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evolution, I guess my consciousness,

being able to connect with my own

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divine self and my divine guidance.

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What I really got out of it, after

going through it, is knowing it's okay.

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Whatever's coming up, Is that everything

is going to be okay one way or another.

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You just don't see the

possibilities right now.

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You don't see the opportunities.

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back to the topic of this podcast

when we are receiving divine

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guidance, when we have the question,

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We might not know who's

who's talking to us.

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Is it my head?

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Do I hear?

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My ego.

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Do I hear my soul talking?

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Do I hear my heart talking?

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And that's why I want to help

you establish your own other

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ways, like definitive ways.

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It's a yes and it's a no.

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So that you can begin to

understand which voice it is

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that you're hearing in your head.

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And if you've ever had those questions,

then you know what I'm talking about.

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If you've never had those questions

and you probably don't know what

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I'm talking about, which voice it

is that you're hearing in your head.

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You don't know if it's

really your heart's desire.

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You don't know if it's, just your

programming from your entire life

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that you think you want something.

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so how do we.

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No, we don't know who,

who it is talking to us.

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we need to begin to test it out.

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And I just want to make another comment

about who these answers are for.

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If you're trying to get answers for your

son or daughter, your best friend, your

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neighbor might not be so accurate because

when we are seeking for our own truth,

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It's really hard for us to receive.

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Answers about someone else that

don't have our own ego slant on

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them, our own intentions or what

we want to our own attachments.

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we're only finding these

answers for ourselves.

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We're not doing this for someone else.

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If someone else needs some answers,

they need to go through this process.

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And I tell people this a lot.

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It's like, you have to

start the process now.

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I feel like a broken record.

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Sometimes start the process

now, begin to learn.

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So it's there when you need it.

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Okay, let's go back.

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I have three ways I

want to share with you.

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These are not the only ways to do it.

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And even within these three ways, there's,

different ways to receive the answers.

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here's the thing, our

body knows the truth.

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our body really acts as the connection

between the earth and the spirit.

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Everything goes through the body input.

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Output, you know, if it's coming top

down or, or bottom up, it doesn't matter.

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Everything goes through the body and by

the body, I mean, our senses, I mean,

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our mind, our brain, everything about

us is programmed to help connect the

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earthly realm with the spirit realm

or the, or the consciousness realm,

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how, however you want to look at it.

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we need to know what

our body is telling us.

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And that's one of the biggest issues

is people don't pay attention to

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what their body is telling them.

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Bodies can be telling you things

without you even asking a question.

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Kids get sick when they have

a test or they get nervous or

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they're being bullied at school.

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They, they get stomach aches.

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They don't want to go to school.

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They think it's a physical problem that

they're having, but it's, It's coming

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because there's something, some kind

of anxiety or some kind of trouble

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that they don't want to go to school.

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This happens for work too.

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They, I have gotten sick, not wanting to

go to work or having a problem, a work

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issue that I don't want to deal with.

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actually, I've had it in relationships

before, if you don't want to see someone

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again, and you don't want to tell them

things, your body reacts different ways.

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And sometimes you get physically sick.

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So you have to stay home.

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It's like, sorry, I'm sick.

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I can't go out.

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And sometimes, it just feels that way.

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so anyhow.

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Learning to pay attention to the body

and it does give you answers when you

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don't even know you have a question.

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So it's important to pay attention to it.

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But let's, let's figure out how to ask a

question and how to get an answer from it.

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the body knows the truth.

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It's, it's got the divine

wisdom coming into it.

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It's going to give, spit out

to you the absolute truth.

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here's one part of the body that you

need to know muscles will contract or

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be firm or be strong when the truth

is being said and they will go weak or

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relax go limp when it is not the truth.

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if you can pay attention to your

muscles and how they're reacting

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to a question, then you will

know if it's the truth for you.

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or if it's not.

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there are several ways to do this.

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One is what we call muscle

testing, and there are several

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ways to devise, systems to know if

your muscles are strong or weak.

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I do what I call the sway test.

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People call it the sway test, and

it's standing up, and the first

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thing that you do, this is true for

everything, is you always want to

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make sure You test it first with a

true statement and a false statement.

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And actually I'm going to talk about

two things at the same time, because the

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same is going to be true for a pendulum

and I don't have a fancy pendulum.

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I've used this same thing for, many years.

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It's a ring that I got that

I had to put on a chain.

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and this is what I use now.

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I I haven't had to use it for a very long

time because as I was talking earlier,

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when you're, when you're living a part

of this connectedness and oneness, you

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don't actually have to ask the questions.

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You kind of know the answers before you

even ask them whether it's your pendulum

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and the background on how it works is the

muscles and your fingers make it move or,

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or your arm might actually make it move.

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And the thing is, you're not intentionally

making it do a circle or go left or

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right or forwards or backwards, but

your muscles are your, your unconscious

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is taking over, making the muscles go

the way that they're supposed to go.

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Same is true with a sway test.

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You always start by asking a true question

so you know what the yes answer is.

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And that's going to be true across

the board with no matter what kind

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of muscle testing, no matter what

you're doing, when you're trying

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to find, discern information, start

with the truth so you know what the

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truth looks like, or feels like.

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with a sway test, you

stand flat on your feet.

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With the pendulum, you just hold it

steady and you say something true.

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My name is Karen.

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That's a very common one to say.

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My name is Karen.

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And usually you'll sway forward.

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you need to pay attention to the,

just the slight, slight variations in

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your legs, because you're not going

to let yourself be thrown off balance.

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But if you start to sway slightly

forward, then that's a yes answer.

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pay attention to what your calves,

your shins, your ankles are doing.

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And if you start to sway to the

left or to the right or to the

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back, pay attention to that.

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after you ask your yes question,

and you see how it goes.

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usually with me, a yes is back and forth

for this, then, you know that and you say,

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okay, then you ask yourself a no question.

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And it's not a question.

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I'm saying it as a question,

but it's actually a statement.

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So you might say just something,

the opposite, something

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that's not true at all.

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My name is Eloise.

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that's not true and

notice how the body goes.

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how does it sway?

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How does the pendulum move?

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How does your body react to that?

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So.

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Get used to asking yes and no

questions and do it with things

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that are right now that are not.

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Life breaking, urgent, all important

questions that could have catastrophic

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results if you do the wrong thing.

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begin with simple things at the grocery

store, stand on your feet, get present,

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get quiet, stand up straight, pick up an

orange or an apple or lettuce, and just

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ask yourself, is this piece of food?

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Good for my body right now.

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Muscle testing can be

used for supplements.

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It can be used for medicine.

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It can be used for food.

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It can be used for anything, really.

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you might find people

in the supplement aisle.

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And some of the health food stores or

some of the new age stores with their

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eyes closed, holding items, seeing

which way they move back and forth.

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Or, like I said, in the produce section,

which, which watermelon is good,

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this watermelon or this watermelon.

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picking the wrong thing might

have pretty minor consequences.

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So like I said, start small with these

things so you can begin to build up your

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faith and your trust in this system.

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And then another way, and it's

very similar, but it's paying

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attention to the emotions or the

feelings in our body, the feelings.

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you want to be in a position that you

are, it's quiet, you're not distracted.

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And think of something that

really makes you happy.

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Think of a decision you've made.

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That's really been a good

decision in your life.

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And how does your body feel?

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Where do you feel it?

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And how does that feel in your body?

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And then bring to mind something

that wasn't such a great decision or

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something that didn't work out very well.

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Something you didn't like.

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And how does that feel in your body?

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And where do you feel that in your body?

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And when things happen throughout the

day, good or bad, stop and notice how

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the body feels, so that you can begin

to understand That when you have that

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same feeling tomorrow, you know, if it's

a good thing or a not so good thing.

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So I highly recommend you begin paying

attention every day, every, every

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moment, especially, you know, when

you just burst out laughing because

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something is so great right before

that, if you can, if you can stop in

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the moment, if you're in the space or a

place where you can stop in the moment

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and say, What's going on in my body?

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That was fantastic.

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I love that.

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What's going on in my body?

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Because I want more of this.

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So I want to make sure I move

in the direction that I feel

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this way in my body more.

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Especially the moments leading up to

that, that laughter, that good thing.

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Same with the bad.

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what, what happened?

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How did my body feel?

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I want to make sure I stay

out of situations that my body

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feels like that because that's

not how I want my life to be.

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So try to use your body as a gauge

to always move towards the things

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that always feel good and move

away from the things that feel bad.

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And it's going to take time because

for most of us, we're not used

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to feeling our body like that.

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For a lot of us, we kind of ignore our

body and we're disconnected from it.

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it might take time to begin

feeling like that again.

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And if you need an introduction to

actually just start feeling your

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body, sit down, be quiet, and actually

pay attention on parts of your body.

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In fact, lift your hand up so

it's not touching anything.

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And close your eyes and imagine your

hand and how do you know your hand

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exists when you're not looking at it,

and when it's not touching anything.

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So see if you can actually feel the

parts of your hand or feel your toes.

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Just feel different parts of

your body without looking at it.

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without actually knowing that

it's there because you see it

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or you touch it with your hands.

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Through these different methods,

if you practice them daily.

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Even weekly, if you had started five

years ago and you were practicing

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these weekly, you'd still have a

much better, greater understanding

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today of what you needed to know.

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So start now.

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And even if it's random, every two

weeks, once a month, just start so that

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when you have those decisions, when you

have issues come up, you can check in.

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Here's the other thing though,

with checking in like that, or

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with, with, intentionally doing it.

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on a regular basis is you are

going to begin to feel the

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connection with life around you.

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it happens both ways.

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You might feel your connection with

life around you and then you can

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understand your answers better.

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Or you might like I'm proposing begin

to understand how to receive an answer

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and it just can't help but put you into

that oneness that connection with the

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world around you because the oneness of

it all is what's giving the answers and

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is what it's where the answers come from.

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It's where the questions come from.

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It's where everything is interchanged.

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So just beginning simple practices like

this is what's going to help, help you

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feel better about life, maybe give you

a little more hope with some things and

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certainly help you know how to find the

answers, how to have, how to receive

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divine guidance when you need it.

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It's all about developing faith so you

can trust and you can look back and say,

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I felt this way and this was the outcome

and that was the expected outcome.

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and you can trust yourself to

make the best decision for you.

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And that's your homework this

week to begin testing this out.

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See how your body feels.

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When you laugh, when you cry,

clearly we have these emotions in

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our head, but how does the body feel?

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