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Emotional Dumping
Episode 193rd April 2021 • The Becoming the Big Me Podcast • Djemilah Birnie
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Let's dive into emotional dumping. We've all done it and we've all had it done to us! Sometimes there is stuck/pent up energy inside that just NEEDS to be released. How does one do it in a healthy way? How does one be a vessel for others to do it in a healthy way? This episode will give you all the deets.

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Our

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hardships going on. There are challenges there are

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difficulties happening in the family, someone's going through

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something really hard. Something that is difficult is off trying

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time. And they need to be able to speak to someone they need to

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be able to release what they're feeling, what they're going

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through what's happening inside of them. Because it is very

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important to release it is extremely important to get out

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what you're feeling what you're thinking. But you have to be

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really careful because you can really negatively impact other

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people, too.

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Hello, fellow Earthlings. Welcome to the becoming the big

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me podcast. I'm your host, Djemilah Birnie. And together,

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we will be stepping into our highest potential, exploring all

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things

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mind, body, and soul. With justice, major business, your

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spiritual badass solopreneur, and a warrior for change, you're

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ready to expand your impact and leave your old self behind in

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order to raise your vibration so that you can positively

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influence your business, your community, and ultimately, the

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world. Without further ado, let's dive right into it.

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Hello, Hello,

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today I have a really awesome and important topic of

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conversation to talk about. Now, this is going to be important

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for you, if you are a human being this is important, whether

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you're a parent, whether you're in a relationship, whether

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you're a business owner, whether you interact with people ever in

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your entire life, this is for you. And this topic is important

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to talk about. And this came up recently in a client in a

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coaching clients, sessions. And I realized that I've never

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really talked about this particular subject before, on a

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public note, but this issue is something that we all deal with,

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on a constant basis, myself included, this is something that

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needs to be talked about needs to be shared. So here we are. So

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what we're talking about today is emotional dumping. What is

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emotional dumping, how to channel it and how to not do it

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to other people. So basically, emotional dumping is when you

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have stuff going on inside of you. inside of your body, you

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have different emotions, different feelings, different

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thoughts, and you don't really know how to process them very

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well. And you need to get them out, you need to release them

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from your body, you need to dump them out of yourself because

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this energy is just like stuck inside you and it doesn't feel

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good. So you just need to release it. So I don't have you

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ever heard of the concept of the chain of yelling. So like a

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higher up in an organization yells at, you know, a manager, a

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manager then yells at an employee, an employee then yells

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at, you know, goes home and yells at their kids, their kids

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go to school and then start yelling at people. So the chain

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of yelling is complete emotional dumping, that's the entire

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chain. It's someone has something inside of them that

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they need to dump off on to other people. And then once they

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dump that load on to someone else, that other person is now

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holding that emotional load inside of them. And so then they

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need to go and dump it off onto someone else. And then that just

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continues. This is something that happens all the time in

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families or loved ones when there are hardships going on.

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There are challenges there are difficulties happening in the

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family, someone's going through something really hard something

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that is difficult is trying time and they need to be able to

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speak to someone they need to be able to release what they're

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feeling, what they're going through what's happening inside

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of them because it is very important to release it is

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extremely important to get out what you're feeling what you're

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thinking. But you have to be really careful because you can

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really negatively impact Other people, depending on how you are

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emotionally dumping, depending on what state of mind, the

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person who you're dumping on is whether or not they're aware

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that of the energetic exchange that's going on or not. Because

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if they're not aware of the energetic exchange that's going

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on, they're just absorbing your emotional dumping. And all of a

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sudden, now they have this need to dump on other people. I'm

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sure you've experienced this before, have you ever had

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someone who just got really frustrated at you, and you

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couldn't figure out why. And then it just put you off in this

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other kind of weird space, and you find yourself going off on

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someone else. Or maybe it's not necessarily like they're going

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off on you, maybe it's just, they're having to release what

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they're going through at that moment. And maybe you start to

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feel like you're carrying their weight as well, you feel like

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you are now having this the same burden that they are carrying.

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And

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the thing

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with emotional dumping is, one, it's extremely important to be

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able to dump emotions. Just because you don't want to keep

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that negativity inside of you, you don't want to keep those

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thoughts and all of that stuff inside of you, you do need to

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let it out. But the second thing about emotional dumping is it

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can also

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be very dangerous

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to other people like in ways that we can't necessarily see or

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understand at the moment. So I'm going to just dive into this

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concept more how you can become a channel when people are

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dumping on you how you can become a channel so that you're

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not perpetuating the chain of yelling, you're not perpetuating

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the emotional dumping, and you're actually allowing this

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person to release without absorbing. And then I'm also

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going to talk about how you can dump your emotions, how you can

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release this pent up stuff energy, without doing it to

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others and without it affecting others. You might be asking,

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Why

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do you want to teach me how to channel it. But then you're also

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going to teach me how to not do it to others? Why can't I just

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like teach others how to not dump on me and how they should

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do it?

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Well, the thing is,

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that's not always something that is possible to do. People are

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not necessarily as quote unquote, woke as you, most

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people are not in the same headspace as you and not self

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aware. In fact, the majority of our population is extremely,

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extremely, not self aware. And you're going to find that there

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are going to be you know, loved ones in your life, who don't

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have the self awareness to not dump on you. And they, they

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don't see it as anything except for them just trying to talk to

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you about what they're going through or what's going on. So

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that's why it's important to be able to learn how to be a

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channel for these people, because it is extremely,

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extremely important to release those emotions, emotions, those

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pent up feelings and those thoughts. So you, the last thing

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that you want is to box them away, put them in a drawer and

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close it up, because it's just going to resurface as a bigger

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problem, it's just going to manifest itself in other ways

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into your life. So we want to, you know, allow people to

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release this emotion to release it, but we don't want them to.

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But we don't want we don't want to absorb it. We don't want to

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then take on that emotional, you know that emotional stress and

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then go and perpetuate the chain and continue to dump onto

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others. So I'm just going to give you a quick couple

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examples. So for example, you know, after school a lot of

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times when I pick up my daughter, she will emotionally

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dump on me. And I get it the school day can be a lot It is

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extremely overstimulating there all kinds of kids all kinds of

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interactions, all kinds of energetic stuff happening

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throughout the day at school, that when she gets home, she

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sometimes can be extremely rude and say things I know that she

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doesn't mean and just like be in a emotionally unstable Place,

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but I realize that this is just her process, you know, after

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1015 minutes at like one more home, when we're alone when

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we're away from everything, then she will return back to her

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normal, happy, energetic self, but she has to go through this

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emotional dumping process just because there was so much

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emotion so much that she took on throughout the day that she now

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needs to release it from her body, so that she can even go

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back to herself. Another example is, you know, with my family of

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like, sometimes when different things are going on with our

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family, whether that be someone sick, someone is, you know, in

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and out of the hospital, and

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tibbett you know, what

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the the sick person might dump on someone else, one of our

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other family members that family member might go and on another

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family member and it just like, it continues in that way.

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So how

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do you channel it? How do you channel these emotional dumpings

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when people are doing it to you. So the first thing is, you need

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to realize what's going on, you need to realize, Oh, this person

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is dumping right now. So basically, that's their

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complaint. It's either like a complaint. Um, I mean, you can,

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you will be able to tell when people are emotionally dumping

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on you, it's typically complaining about something or

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speaking about something in a way that obviously is, you know,

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has been weighed weighing on them, they're obviously holding

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on to a lot of pent up emotion about whatever the topic is, and

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they're trying to release it. And in releasing it, they're

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speaking to you about it, so that they can release it. So the

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first thing you need to do is you need to identify it. The

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second thing you need to do is you need to realize that you are

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playing an extremely important role in that person's life, you

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are there to help them get rid of this stuff pent up energy

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that they're feeling that you are there to help be a channel

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for them. To get rid of this stuck energy that they're

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holding on to, you are playing an important role. So you The

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second thing you need to do is you need to understand how

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important the role that you're playing is. And instead of, you

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know, maybe getting upset at the person or feeling like upset is

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not necessarily the right word. But just like feeling like maybe

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it's a burden to be the one that everyone always goes to with

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their problems. I know like growing up that was kind of

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always me is that people, a lot of people would dump their

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problems on me I was someone that people always felt like

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they could talk to you really well. And so they would do, they

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would dump their problems on me. And I think that's one of the

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reasons why I've learned, you know, kind of this the art of

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the emotional dump. Because I've had to kind of learn how to

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channel a lot myself, so that I'm not soaking up the dumping

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that's happening. Um, so you have identified that they're

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dumping on you. And you have now realized that your role is

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important. And now you can be thankful, be thankful that you

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have this awareness of what's going on, be thankful that you

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are in the state of mind, but you can be this channel for that

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person, be thankful for your position. And now this is where

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we're gonna like start going down a little bit more of the

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Whoo, energetic quantum path. So at this point, what you're going

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to want to do is you're going to want to just breathe in and out

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one or two times, and say a little mantra to yourself, in

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your head and just, you basically it's going to depend

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on your specific spiritual beliefs, whether that be source

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universe, God or any other diety. You're basically just

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going to say, you know, for me, I would say source or universe,

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I'd say thank you universe for allowing me to be this channel

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for persons name. Allow this information to flow through me

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and back to you source because you have all of the answers.

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Thank you for watching. calling us to release these emotions.

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And that's it just like do a couple deep breaths like that.

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Just like say a little mantra doesn't have to be you know,

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word for word, the same as that mantra. That's just what I do.

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But just, you know, say a couple little deep breaths, say a

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couple deep breaths, take a couple of deep breaths, say your

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little mantra, basically, just being thankful, being grateful.

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Understand, coming

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from a place of awareness, understanding that the role that

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you're playing is extremely important in this person's life,

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it is going to help them but you don't have to carry the weight

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of it. You don't have to carry the weight of it at all, the

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universe has your back, God has your back, you know,

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what any,

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you know, whatever day it you know, all that, well, anything

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that you believe in, like you are being protected, you're

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taking care of you don't have to carry the burden alone, you're

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just there to be a channel, whether you know, even like your

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ancestors, anything, spirit, anything. There is a force

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greater than us in this world. That's something that I am

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unwavering about how that manifests in your life is up to

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you. But there is a force that's greater than just us human

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beings on this planet. And use that force, use

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the Force,

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allow yourself to just be a channel back to the to the

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source and, and know that sources going to, to take care

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of you and reproductive protect you. So that's that it's really

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simple. That's how you channel it. And then after you're done

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with, you know, their conversation, you're done.

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Speaking with

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that person,

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again, just take another minute, like, it doesn't have to be a

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big deal. It doesn't have to be this big, whole hour long

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frickin ritual thing. Like everyone tries to overcomplicate

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everything, no, it can literally be like, two or three deep

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breaths in and out, and just again, thanking yourself for

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being able to be this channel for that person. And then just

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stating, again, like, I release this emotional state, I release

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this energy from my body, and just breathe it in and out. And

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literally visualize, like, that emotion, that stuff, that energy

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that they just like, poured into you. Now just imagine that

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flowing out of you flowing through you, you are not, you

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know, the pool to collect all of this stuff, you're just the

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channel, you are just a vessel for it to leave that other

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person's body.

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Okay,

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so now let's talk about how to not do it to others, how are you

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going to not emotionally dump your shit onto others. Um, now,

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I do just want to be very clear, like, sometimes you do need to

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speak it out and talk it out with another human being. Um,

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so always

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make sure that the person that you are dumping on is in the

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right mental space to be able to dump on them. Um, you know,

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like, don't, it's just, it's everything is really about

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awareness. Make sure you're not dumping on your kids, they don't

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understand it, obviously, like, make sure that you're going to

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someone who has some level of awareness, and you can just

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straight up tell them like, Are you in a un? Are you in a state

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of mind right now? Where I can dump on you? Like, ask that

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question. That's always a good, a good thing, because sometimes

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it might be a very normally pretty emotionally stable

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person, but they might be like, going through some shit at that

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moment. And maybe they're not, it's not a good time for you to

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dump on that. So before you're gonna dump on someone, unless

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it's someone like me, who is who's a coach and who, you know,

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is does more personalized, you know, therapy type sessions, you

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don't necessarily have to ask me if it's okay to dump on me

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because that's, you know, what I'm being paid for. But if it's

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just a friend, or you know, a family member or something like

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that, just ask them. Are you in an emotionally stable place

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right now where I can dump on you, or I can dump what I'm

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going through on you? And if they say, No, don't be offended,

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because it's nothing personal. It has nothing to do with you.

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It just has to do with them. And that's, that's, that's fine. So,

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ask and then just make sure that they understand that you're

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dumping. If, if that's, you know, what needs to happen, and

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I believe that sometimes, it doesn't need to happen with

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another human being because we are humans and we crave

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connection and that is just Like wired in us, we want to speak to

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other people about things. And sometimes we need to, like talk

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it out with a third opinion, right.

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But

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for the things that you need to

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dump, that you don't necessarily need to,

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you

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know, tell two other people you don't necessarily need to dump

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on others. What I suggest for you, is figure out how to dump

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it for yourself. So for me, like journaling, wow, that has been

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powerful. journaling is so powerful. The other thing that I

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do his voice memos, because sometimes my brain is going like

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way faster than my hand can write. And I just need to get

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the shout at me, I just need to release it, I just need to get

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out, get out. And I will just word vomit. And I'll just do a

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voice memo recording on my phone, whatever, just to like,

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dump everything that I'm feeling dumped this shit. Again, I don't

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know if I said it on my podcast, but I know I've said it on

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Instagram. Sometimes you're going to write down things that

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aren't positive. That's going to happen in this emotional dumping

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phase, you're gonna write down shit that's not positive. And I

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know a lot of manifestation teachers and coaches are like,

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you should always, you know, write down, you know, positive

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things like writing is so important to manifestation and

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like don't attach it to anything negative, I totally get that.

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But this is a different process, when you are dumping your

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emotions, you need to just stream of consciousness, write

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it down, however it's coming, whatever you're feeling, and you

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just need to release it. A fun practice that you can do is you

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could even, you know, you can if you're journaling, and you're

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writing it down, this is you know, a little bit extra. But it

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can be fun. And it can be like a cool ritual to have is when you

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are having these emotions that you need to dump, you can dump

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them, dump them out on paper, write them all out. And then you

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can actually like burn them and release them into the universe

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and just kind of do a very similar mantra, little

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meditation. As I was saying before, if you are becoming a

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channel for another person, just you know, release those

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feelings, those emotions back to source, think about that,

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visualize that as you like, burn the paper or whatever. Again,

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like totally extra, like not necessary. But the cool thing

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with this with this process, if you're doing voice memos, or

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whatever, you can now go back, you know, when you're not in

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such an emotionally charged state, like maybe the next day

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or the next couple of days, and you can really listen to it and

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then you can dissect it. And you can basically poke holes in your

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emotional state in like the negativity, you can look for

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anything that you can start poking holes in. That's not

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true. And that's just going to help with the process

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completely. So that's emotional dumping. That's how I feel about

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emotional dumping. That's what it is, look around you, like

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really look around you, you will start to notice people dumping

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all over each other all the time. This is something that

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happens constantly, because like I stated at the beginning, most

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people are not aware, most people don't really understand

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what ripple effect their actions have the the complaints will

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ever they don't. They just don't have the level of awareness that

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you have, or the you know, it's, it's something that takes time.

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And now that you are aware, you're gonna start seeing it

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everywhere. I I'm serious, like especially if you're a parent,

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you're gonna see it happening at on the playground and like with

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your kids, like everywhere. So if you enjoyed this episode, it

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would mean so much to me, if you could share it with one friend

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who you think would enjoy this episode as well. If there's

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someone else who you think could benefit from learning about

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emotional dumping, dumping, either. They're in a position

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where they are getting dumped on emotionally all the time. And

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they need to learn how to channel it because maybe they're

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taking it on and it's weighing them down. Like share this

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episode with them. Let them know this is how my podcast grows,

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just trying to get out spread, spread positivity, raise the

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vibration of this planet and truly make an impact on this

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world.

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