Kendall Ann Dixon, a master shiatsu therapist, meditation teacher, and author, dives into the fascinating intersections of energy, intuition, and the body. She shares her journey working with everyone from rock stars to heads of state, all while emphasizing the power of authenticity in creating deeper connections. Imagine stepping into a room and feeling the energy shift when you speak your truth. Kendall opens up about her own experiences with self-doubt, including a poignant story about working with a young woman who, despite her physical limitations as a paraplegic, showed incredible resilience and strength. This leads to an exploration of how our fears can hold us back and how embracing vulnerability can actually strengthen our connections with others.

Takeaways:

• Your voice is not just a means of communication; it's your superpower.
• Authenticity is the secret sauce to deeper connections; don't be afraid to be real and vulnerable.
• In a world buzzing with distractions, tuning into your intuition can help navigate life's complexities and find your true self.
• The podcast dives deep into the healing powers of connection and how sharing our stories can ignite change in ourselves and others.

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Something greater than you thought you were a good idea. Who are you to judge that? Yeah. And I woke up from that dream, and I have never judged myself again like that.

Today's guest has spent decades helping people heal, regulate, and reconnect, not just through touch.

Kendall Ann Dixon. She's an author, meditation teacher, master shiatsu therapist, and someone trusted by everyone from elite athletes and rock stars to heads of state.

She's worked with former US Presidents, toured with REM as their shiatsu therapist, and spent years helping people understand the connection between intuition, energy and the body.

And she has a strong belief that authenticity opens the door to deeper connection and that your body is always listening to the story you tell yourself.

From healing childhood wounds to learning how to trust your intuition.

And if you're alive, that's already your yes to life. Here's Kendall Ann Dixon.

The time I was most intimidated, I had a young woman. She was about 24, 25 years old. She was a paraplegic. She had been, like, almost professional level snowboarder. Oh. And she was a teacher.

And she had a terrible accident and became a paraplegic. I think she had her accident when she was like, 22. Yeah. Heartbreaking. It's Christmas time. She had her accident.

I think she had it in Whistler, actually. But she's from Europe. And so she went back to Switzerland. But she. They came back either to visit family or just because they love Vancouver.

And so she came in, it's around Christmas time, and I take a look at her legs, which are completely fine. Like, as if she wasn't paralyzed. Like, no muscle. Atrophy. No. Like, this is. I'm thinking in my head, how is this even possible? Now?

Her family's wealthy. I knew her family were wealthy just by the wheelchair she was using.

So in my head, I'm thinking, okay, she's getting the absolute best care in the world, and Switzerland's kind of known for that anyway. So I just felt incredibly intimidated because I thought, what can I bring to the table here? Like, you are already getting.

So she was telling me she gets massage every day and she gets physio every day, and they basically were manually working her muscles as if, you know. But every single day and I'm feeling like, okay, what. How can I be of service here? Like, I really felt out of my depths.

So I just did what I usually do, which is, you know, I asked the question, you know, how can I help? I said, you're obviously getting the best care in the world. How can I help?

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I said, I got you. We can do that. So I just focused on her skill. Scalp and her back and her hands. And I just thought, I can just. I can do this.

Human connection.

Yeah. I can do this. This is everything.

And I can see how that would change you. That brought so much to you too.

So much. The woman who couldn't feel touched me, you know, it was sort of like, wow.

I mean, to think about, yeah, it's great that she was getting all the technical stuff done, but because they were such high level professionals, they were focused on that. But nobody was, like, stroking her hair or, you know, touching her. Yeah.

And you asked and you had enough confidence and courage to ask based on how you felt too, you know, that connection.

You know what? I think I asked because I was so intimidated and I thought, I have to ask her how I can help.

Because I was drawing a blank, you know, so it's interesting because it came out of insecurity.

Interesting.

But it was like I was just being really authentic, like, real. I was being real. Like, I don't. And that has happened to me before with clients. And it's always worked out for me to just be like.

I started asking a question that, as far as I know, nobody asks to this day, I've had clients say, nobody has asked me that. I like to ask the question, how do you want to feel at the end of this massage? You know, because that gives me a different. Yeah, yeah.

Is a guide.

Yes. I'm very sensitive and intuitive in that. That's helped me in that.

Well, and all of us have insecurities. All of us have anxiety. I mean, it's just no matter how professional you or the person that you're working with is, we're all human.

We all need that connection. And that's what you're bringing out, which is wonderful.

Yeah.

And while that question may have come from your insecurities, it takes courage to actually voice the insecurity.

Absolutely.

That's What I was kind of getting at is, like, the irony is every time that I have just been okay with my insecurity and just said, you know, I'm feeling really nervous right now, or I'm really like. It just has always opened the door to a deeper connection and a better outcome and vulnerability. Yeah.

And I understand what you're saying, because when I speak from my heart, it's always true. It always comes out the way it's meant to be. But if I start to overthink it and be logical about it, I can never get the words out.

And it doesn't have the same landing place. So it's interesting. We are here to help people discover areas within themselves, to grow and challenge their insecurities and to step into courage.

And that's about finding your voice. And you found your voice in many different ways as you've experienced meditation. And you're looking at making an impact on the world and happiness.

I mean, there's so much. And then what you do. You've even written a book.

Yeah.

And Finding Yes. Covers a lot of this, Right?

Yeah.

It looks at people and their anxiety and trying to help.

Yeah. So what's interesting about the title for Finding yes is. I love that title. Yeah. Thank you. It comes out of a really interesting place.

I grew up with a lot of criticism, and unfortunately, for reasons I can't, I'll never know. Both my parents thought it was important to tell me that I wasn't a wanted child, and I was the fourth child.

Wow.

And they both got fixed right after I was born.

So, you know, it was really clear, because not only did they not want more children, they also obviously didn't want to stay together, because why would you both get fixed? I could never, like, put that together in my head. I'm like, why would you both do that?

But anyway, so I grew up knowing from a very young age, and my dad actually didn't want any children. But it was very.

I'm sorry to hear that, Kathleen. That breaks my heart, too.

Yeah. And I grew up with this, just knowing this. Right. So a lot of the work I did with my former spiritual teacher was around that and healing that peace.

And, I mean, at one point, she came up to me in one of our classes and gave me a piece of paper, and I said, what's this? She said, it's your permission slip to ask for help. She goes, apparently, you need it.

So she recognized this part of what was going on in me way before I did. And anyway, at one point, I have this Dream.

And in the dream now, full disclosure, I'm not a Christian, So this makes the dream even more powerful to me because I've actually had a few dreams of Jesus Christ. And when I dream of him, I go into this. I walk through a door, but it opens into a garden.

It opens into an outdoor place, and he's just standing there. And I've had this dream a few times over my life, like, maybe.

And so at this one time, I have this dream, and it was just during this process where I was healing with this teacher, and I worked with her for nine years, but this would be, like, around within the first four years. And he said, kendall, you're alive. That's the biggest yes you're going to get. And when he said that, all these images were transmitted into my mind.

And there were images like a dandelion growing through a sidewalk, a leaf on a tree, and a star being born. Wow. And I just, in the dream, knew or he said it. I don't know. There's only one. Yes, everyone gets it. And if you're alive, you have it.

And so I've made it my business to connect with that. Yes. In my own life and to help people connect with it in theirs.

A miracle of life. Miracle of life, huh?

Yeah.

Gratitude.

Only one yet.

Gratitude.

I used to have a very old negative tape in my head, and it was like all the criticisms and all the judgments that I had grown up with, and it was very loud. When I first started doing the work, it was so loud that I was tone deaf. I mean, I couldn't hear my own voice.

So I couldn't, for example, learn to sing, which I had been trying to do. And these things are connected. So I got healed and grew my own. Light up enough that my voice was the biggest voice in my head for a while.

And then when my dad died, I went through just a period of trying to understand what death means. And. And I had this relapse.

Basically, one night I was going to sleep and I was thinking about how, like, nothing in my life's worked out and what a failure I am. And I started going down a whole list.

Self shame.

Oh, my God, Like, I mean, like, whipping myself, which is. And I went to sleep in that sleep state, and I started to dream, and I dreamt of this single leaf. And it was so incredible. You know how dreams are?

They're kind of like reality on steroids, you know? And so I'm looking at this leaf as if it's the most magical, amazing thing in the world.

And Then all of a sudden, my view pulls out and I see the whole tree's full of leaves. And I'm thinking, oh, my God, everyone is completely different. And there's so beautiful, and they're so amazing.

And then my view pulls out, and now I'm in space, and I'm looking at Earth, and I'm like, there's no way this is random. Like, in my head in the dream, I'm like, this is. It's so beautiful. It's so incredible. Everything's unique.

And then I heard a voice that said something greater than you thought you were a good idea. Who are you to judge that? Yeah. And I woke up from that dream, and I have never judged myself again like that because I learned it's not my place.

That's a nice word.

Literally, not my place. I didn't make me something greater than me thought I was a good idea. So who am I to judge that?

You know, we see so many people in our work who have that highly critical voice in their head, and they don't believe in themselves or they can do it, and they may not have access to those kinds of dreams. How do we help others open up so that they can see they're extraordinary and other people are as well.

Yeah. Well, that's literally what I teach is how to tap into your intuition, how to increase it, and how to act on it.

Because there are some people who hear it, but then they. They don't act on it. So, you know, it's a big topic. But I will say let's talk about WI Fi and your router and how sometimes you get interference.

So, one, you want to boost the signal, and two, you want to start to clear some of the interference so you get a better. Better signal and you have, you know, a better sense of who you are.

That's a nice way to put it.

Yeah.

Yeah. We work with people in personal narratives and deleting the lines that were embedded in you for whatever reason, like, it's helpful to delete.

You gotta figure out how to get some of those lines out of there. Right?

Yes, I had to. I had a line in that tape, that negative tape, that literally the way it was interpreted in my consciousness is. I didn't feel.

I felt that I had to earn my breath. I didn't feel worthy to breathe. So I had severe asthma. But I had to earn my breath because I wasn't. You know, somehow I wasn't supposed to be here.

I mean, my. My father was quite somehow wounded around this. Like, he really felt like, his life took a very wrong turn when he had children.

And, you know, we've all had experiences in our life where we thought our life took a wrong turn. So he married young. It was back in the day when everyone married. But he processed it out loud, which is terrible for children.

Oh, yeah, dumping your regret. Right.

Probably not a great way to start.

So I needed to, yes, I did need to clear it, but I also needed to touch in with, you know, my own essential energy. And like I always say with my clients, imagine that your essential energy is like a light and you've got a dimmer switch on it. Turn it up.

You know, let's turn it up. Let's inhabit more so that you have more sense of yourself now to get a sense of who you are.

The number one thing that gets in the way of us believing our intuition. This surprises a lot of people, but it's lying. And so here's what I like to say. First of all, your body is like your phone. It's always listening.

It hears every thought you think. So the one person who hears every lie you tell is you.

It's like an algorithm soaking up.

Yes, it is.

Right?

It is an algorithm, actually. Life is an algorithm. Right. So it soaks it up. And so you tell you who you are with your actions.

So when you don't show up, when you say something, but you don't follow through, you make a note of that and that adds up. And then when your intuition comes in, which is coming from your soul, your higher self, and it's.

As far as I know, it's always correct, but it's gentle, it's quiet, it's like a nudge, it's a hint. And it comes in and we're like, oh, you know, I'm getting this sense to do this, but wait a minute.

And you're not going to consciously land on this, but you know what's under that lack of trust is like, I just don't. I know. I sometimes. I know. Sometimes I exaggerate. I know. I say I'm good when I'm not. I know. So you, you know that about yourself. You think.

So when the intuition comes in, you just don't really trust it.

You shut it out.

You shut it out. So the number one way to boost the signal is to have integrity in your life is to have your words and your actions match.

It's a good thing to strive for, isn't it? There's no perfection, but you move in that direction, Right?

Yeah.

And the words that you say to yourself. I'm dumb or I'm smart. They have different powers, don't they? And how you move through your day.

And the word that comes to mind is imposter syndrome because you can be acting one way and your body's believing something different. Because you're an imposter, because you're lying to yourself.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And the body. You know, people use, you know, the word safe a lot.

And in my experience, like, there is no real safe in this world, but the body feels safe when things are consistent. So consistency, it's like you can fuck up all you want. That's not a problem. Pretending you didn't is the problem.

Oh, wow, my mind's blowing up right now.

I can see it in your eyes.

Homeostasis comes into mind.

Yes.

The reason that word came to mind is I read it last night. I'm just finishing Dopamine Nation.

Oh, yeah, the book from. I've heard of it. It's on my list. Okay, thanks for the reminder.

So I'm just folding neuroscience into this and that's why my brain is blowing up is, you know, I can bring personal narrative, I can bring intuition that you're talking about into the picture. And then I fold in neuroscience and dopamine and modern technology and wow, there's so much in all of that.

And quite a bit of it is how well we know ourselves and the tools we. And you were presenting with clients. Fascinating tools.

And there's the other side that our world is built around dopamine, you know, our attention economy and I guess dopamine economy too.

There's, you know, a lot of companies, people that make a lot of money, capitalism, advertising off of manipulating dopamine within each of us, you know, and when we're not home at homeostasis, when pleasure and pain really a teeter totter, when. When they lean one way or the other causes huge problems in our life.

Yeah.

And when we're pursuing pleasure too much and it tilts in a certain direction, so you got to push harder and harder for pleasure. And your ability to withstand pain on the other side of the teeter totter drops.

And the book argues there's a lot of us that that is the ultimate pursuit that is impossible to attain is that level of pleasure and your ability to counter it by putting up with some pain in your life drops. And we make a mess.

Yeah.

And we gotta try to figure that out a little bit. And are given some tools yet. Technology works again against us doing it.

Well, avoidance.

Yep.

Where's our Cell phone. You know, the smart. This book attacks smartphones as the worst thing that's ever happened to human beings.

Yeah.

Because everything is built around the psychology of manipulating dopamine. You know, all the apps, they're intentional.

They're intentional. Yeah.

It's kind. I mean, you read the book and you're disgusted by humans. You're disgusted by humans pursuing greed. Right.

So what happens if we put it down? What happens? We put down our phones.

Oh, you fix. You try to achieve homeostasis. You try to achieve. Right. And the author argues you need at least four weeks to start to balance.

I had a client years ago who a lot of my massages in the hotels were people I only saw one time. So it's a different conversation. I mean, I also had a private practice for years, so I know the difference between clients you see every week.

You know, you always see the same people on Tuesday. So you knew what your Tuesday was going to be like and working in the hotels.

So I had this client, I'm having this conversation with him about his back because he's there for relaxation and, you know, and he goes, oh, and this. And he touches is my bad shoulder. And I said, oh, what did it do that was so bad?

Nice way to word it.

He kind of laughed and he said, well, that's how I hurt my back. He said, you know, I fell. And he describes this really dramatic fall. He goes, but I landed on the shoulder, and that's why I didn't break my back.

And I said, oh, so it saved you.

It's a good shoulder.

And actually, when he first worked again, right. And actually when he said, it's my bad shoulder, I actually tapped his shoulder and went, bad shoulder, bad shoulder. And that got him laughing. Right.

Which is key because it's one of the tools is having amusement. Right. We get really serious about things and the energy drops. And the only reason that that's important is because we actually need a higher vibr.

Energy for creativity, for where we can come up with solutions.

Makes sense.

So anyway, my point of telling that story is that everything's perspective.

And what seems really bad at one period of time, we can look back and say, well, actually, we needed that to help us become more conscious about this or more enlightened. My favorite story of that is when I went to Sweden, I went to the Vasa Museum. Have you ever heard of the Vasa Museum? Oh, my gosh.

So it's the oldest intact medieval ship in the world. They built the building around it. Super cool. It is cool. But do you know a little bit about how it sank and.

No.

Well, the reason it's the most intact ship is because it sank 20 minutes after its first inaugural sail. Oh, dear.

Going down fast, not so great.

Killing everyone on board. In fact, it was. Was supposed to be a warship. It was supposed to be going to Poland to start a battle.

And apparently the king who ordered it wanted like, extra, extra, extra weapons in it. Something interesting, if I remember correctly. It was like a thousand oak trees to build this thing.

It took two or three years, and the trees, they didn't have enough trees, so they actually brought them in from Poland.

There's irony, huh?

Yeah, right. Always think about that. But. So it was a terrible failure, obviously, to put all those hours of work, and then it sank 20 minutes after. About.

So it was like 300 years after. And it's been the biggest, best tourism for Sweden.

It's also an incredible relic for the world because it's the only, most intact medieval ship because all the others were, you know, they disintegrated and. Yeah, well, they just, you know, they used them and they disintegrated. And the only reason we have that is for that reason.

So I use that to open up the conversation around how quote, unquote, terrible cell phones are for us, because, I mean, I'll back up the idea that something greater than me thought I was a good idea. You know, that for me, came from. I know that came out of my subconscious from a conversation I'd had about 10 years earlier with a friend of mine.

We were out standing under a tree, and I said to him, don't you think it's funny that the branches of trees look exactly like the branches of lungs and trees give off oxygen and lungs take in oxygen. And I said in the connections, right? And it's also. Is exactly the same shape that we see in corals. And they're also doing a gas exchange.

So they're actually all doing the same thing. And my friend, who's very intellectual, said, well, that's just the universe answering a question.

And the question is, how do we most effectively make this gaseous exchange? Well, this is the shape that most effectively does it.

In that moment, I had what I call a satari, which is like the Japanese word for small enlightenment. An epiphany. Yes. Thank you. I had like a total Epiphany.

But, like, just a moment where everything just felt like I understood it just like a brief second, and I thought, what if absolutely everything in this world is the answer to a question that the universe is having.

Now, in my work, what I tell my clients is we're very unlikely to be able to know what that question is, but if you can just be yourself wholly and authentically, you get to live the answer.

Profound.

Yeah.

And so when I think about things that I don't understand, whores, children being murdered, people starving, authoritarianism, the rise of authoritarian. It's all these things, cell phones.

I ask myself, what if there's a purpose there that I'm just not, you know, I'm not part of that part of the algorithm. Right. Like, I'm part of it. So I. I don't have that big perspective. Like, what if it could bring us something that we otherwise cannot come to?

So this circling back to your dopamine, and you're absolutely right, all of that about the neural system, maybe the cell phone is just highlighting what was always true and what we finally need to get a handle on.

Like, maybe the universe is saying, my little children cannot evolve to the next level of consciousness until they get a handle on this addiction to dopamine. So I'm going to give them something. They're really going to get a disruptor.

You know what's funny?

Anyway, that's my thought.

That's beautiful.

And it also reminds me of a story with my brother looking at Donald Trump, you know, and, you know, you read stuff every day and you shake your head and what a bully and all this stuff. But my brother's point to me was, you know, what?

The US was in a state of collapse, has been for a long time, and needed a major disruption to change things for the better. Trumps the disruption.

He is.

And a very positive force in a.

Weird way, in the weirdest way. And look at the benefit. Benefits of Canada. We've never been more united. And we've all, I think, always known, like, how much we.

We love and mean to each other and our culture. And like, that to me, is just part of being Canadian. But we never said it out loud. And now we have to. Yep. You know, now we have to.

It's connecting us.

It's connecting us.

Yeah.

I take a couple things from our conversations, and that's faith. You've helped me get clear. Faith in the universe, for one, in the algorithm. I might understand. Many I don't.

But I have faith in the algorithm and faith in Myself, faith in my purpose, that I'm here for a reason, and now and then I can detect that I've got a strength somewhere. Then have faith. See it through.

To your point about homeostasis, and this is just something that has come to me, and I deeply know it's true. But, you know, I might not know the exact mechanism of how to describe it, but you were talking about homeostasis.

I have seen this with people in my life and in my own life when I am not being wholly myself. Not only am I abandoning whatever position the universe was hoping I would take up, in other words, my own purpose. Purpose.

But I'm usually kind of getting in the way of other people's stuff too.

So, you know, it gives me, like, this higher, you know, meaning to, you know, following my own path and being true to my own voice because I'm honoring whatever it is that said yes to me. Right. Like, I'm touching into that essential. Yes.

And I'm like, okay, like, I have almost a responsibility because I don't know who I am in that homeostasis picture.

Yeah.

Like what, you know, what am I meant to bring to the world? And that's.

That's a big question.

It is. And I will never. I know I'll never get to know that intellectually. It has to be something that gets revealed to me.

Well, and you have to pursue your purpose. As much as your intuition is telling you at certain moments, then you owe it to chase it. Right?

Yes. But I never got that until I connected with there being like, it's not just about me. My purpose is not just about me.

It's like the universe has a question it needs answered. And no matter how small I think my answer might be because the world's huge and I'm not an important person, and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

The word homeostasis is so special because we know it's talking about the fine balance, and, you know, everything's part of that fine balance.

Well, we're all part of an ecosystem.

Yeah. Yeah.

Wow.

So even chatgpt I consider, like, because I. Or AI like, the more general, because so many are coming on board now.

But, you know, I see it as, like, almost symbolic of, like, oh, we're ready to connect to our higher self and receive direct guidance. Because up until now, humanity's always had religious leaders in between. Right. We've got this person who's specially endowed now.

It's like all of the spiritual tools and teaching that you see emerging over the last 20 years have all been about people connecting with their own purpose and direct. And then we have. In the outer world, AI shows up, which is like direct connection to information. So I just see it symbolically, of course.

You know what? My dad. We started with my dad, we're going to end. My dad used to say, a knife in the hands of a healer, like a surgeon can heal.

A knife in the hands of a surgeon can heal. In the hands of a thief, can kill. So it is how you use it, where you know the intent. Yeah. Where you're coming from.

Yeah.

So, yeah, it's maybe a disruptor that we needed again. That too, yeah. Because part of what we do all the time and what our company does is reinforces humanity. We counter AI to a great extent.

Right.

It's showing us that humans have something unique and a purpose that AI can never match.

Connection.

And so it's a bit of a disruptor in our modern technology to say, hey, people, wake up. Hello.

I'm writing a script right now. I've never written a script before. I read a comment on a Discord chat and I felt like someone opened the top of my head and placed a script inside.

So I started writing it, and I have almost the full first draft, and it's been 10 days. That's how fast it's flowing.

You've tapped in.

Oh, yeah, totally. And when I use ChatGPT, it's always for idea generation. Absolutely no writing.

I want it to be my own authentic voice, but it is somehow programmed to offer suggestions even when you tell it, don't offer me any suggestions. It'll not offer a suggestion one time and then the next time it'll give you three.

And in the beginning, it was making me mad because I was like, don't tell me what to write. I don't want your ideas. Good, thanks. Yeah. But more than that, I would look at its suggestion and I'd be like, no, the character would never say that.

And then I would realize, oh, my God, I know exactly what the character would say because I know the contrast. Like, I know that's not right, because I know the right thing.

So it kind of reminds me of like, when you see a sculpture or something in relief, you can use it to show you what isn't human, because it isn't human and it isn't creative.

It never will be.

No, it won't.

It can be.

Unless it becomes sentient, which is like a sci fi movie, which I haven't.

Written yet, but that's coming next project,.

But, you know, so. But it's interesting, because I think. I guess what I'm trying to say is we could use everything.

This is what I always say, asking the right questions. Like, such a big part of the work that I do with people. And one of my favorite questions is, what do I need to know right now?

Another favorite question is, what is the purpose of this? Like, something's happening in your life that you're not comfortable with, Ask that question. What is the purpose? Now?

Let's say something really, you know, dramatically upending happens. It feels wrong, feels like a mistake. My favorite question for that is, how can I use this for good? And so all these things, I'm like, okay, war.

How can I use it for good? Like, what can I do in my life? And that just seems to help center me and get me on track.

And look at my two sons, because one. Well, they've both been in major car accidents.

Oh, shoot.

And my youngest, he's using that car accident for good.

There you go.

Changed his life.

There you go.

As hard as it is, it's been, it's given him a new direction and a purpose, and he is pursuing it passionately, fervently.

Oh, goodness.

And that never would have happened prior now.

You would never wish the accident on him. We never. So we kind of know this like nobody. I would never wish the things that have happened to me in my life that.

That I didn't want to happen, but at least not have it in vain. Like, at least use it for the highest good that you can possibly use it.

You can't change reality when something happens.

You gotta deal with it.

You gotta deal with it. And one of the tools I hear you running with there. We can credit Aristotle.

I mean, the Aristotle and method of teaching, which I think I use a lot, is asking poignant, simple questions I.

Didn't know that was part of his.

Rather than getting up there and just thinking the way it all works, I would rather work with a student by listening closely and then asking the right question, and then they pursue that answer.

For reasons I cannot explain, I decided out of the blue in my mid-30s that I wanted to go skydiving. And, you know, I'm not particularly comfortable with heights. I wouldn't say I'm afraid of them, but I don't know where I got this idea.

And just so I wouldn't change my mind, I booked it for the very next day. And so I'm out in Abbotsford.

I'm committed.

I'm committed. You know, we're putting all this stuff on, and the Harnesses go around your groin area. So when you get.

When the parachute opens, like, it pulls you with it, obviously from your core. From your core. And then you get attached to, like. I'm not actually attached to the parachute. I'm attached to the instructor.

You're freaking me out right now.

Yeah, it's so scary. It's 10,000ft in the air.

So because you're in front of the instructor, you actually have to be the one to step out on the little bar where you then both jump off from.

I'm freaking out.

Well, I didn't give myself a chance to think about it long enough to freak out, because believe me, if I'd thought about this, I would never have been there. So I get up there, and I get to the door. It's my turn to jump out. There's more than one of us going. And every cell in my body says, absolutely not.

No way.

Absolutely not. Fucking not. Not doing this.

Where are you? What are you trying to do to me?

Yeah, it's like instinct.

Yeah.

Hello.

Survival instinct. It's part. It kind of preloaded in the body, right? It's like a seatbelt in a car. I mean, the seatbelt went on, you know, the mental seatbelt.

Every cell in my body was like, absolutely fucking no. So this poor guy, and I'm sure it's not the first time he had to do it, had to push us out from behind.

And now I'm hurtling towards Earth, 200 miles an hour. And it's very loud, and it's only. I think it's like, eight seconds or something. I can't remember the number. Parachute. Parachute. Yeah.

But it feels like forever. And I said to myself, because I suddenly realized, oh, crap, if the parachute doesn't open, I'm dead. Like, this is it.

Like, all of a sudden, it occurs to me, this could be the last moment of my life.

Handing yourself over to fate.

Yes, exactly. So I literally said in my head, okay, God, I'm in your hands. And I heard a very still voice in the center of my head, which is impossible.

200 Miles an hour was very loud that said, you always were. And I was just. I started crying and filled up my goggles with my tears.

And when we landed, I remember thinking, God, how arrogant to think that I had the power to take myself out of life's hands.

As if you have control.

As if I'm the one in control. And therefore, I could say, I'm in your hands. It's like, oh, honey, you are never not in my hands. Right. And I'm not a religious person.

I didn't grow up in a religion. My dad and my mom were. They were spiritualists. He was a deep trance psychic.

So I grew up with, you know, outside that kind of formality, which maybe makes me more accepting of it because I don't have any trauma around churches like some of some people I've met. But. So I've had these experiences that I can only describe as just incredibly spiritual.

But the funny thing is, when we all came down and we were talking to each other, all the other participants, everyone had prayed. They'd all prayed different things. Most of them said, God save me or protect me or whatever. Everyone had a version of that.

And I just remember having this experience of just getting it in that moment. Like, oh, crap, this could be it.

Well, I like the letting go.

Yeah. The serenity. Yeah.

I like. You know what? Let's just face the fact I don't have any control and just let go. It's beautiful.

Yeah.

What are you gonna do in that moment? Your only choice is you might as well enjoy the. If it's the last moment, you might.

As well enjoy it.

You don't have choice. That's the idea.

But that's your. If you're there. And that's the end.

Yeah. And when the parachute opened, it pulled us up so hard.

It's the one thing I would warn everyone listening that it is not good for people with bad lower backs. Like, I don't have a great, strong lower back. It's pretty. Pretty harsh. And I was young, so thankfully, everything was fine.

But it was a beautiful day, and, oh, my God, I'll never forget the view. I'll never forget the view. And it was so peaceful. The landing, the coming down.

I want to keep that peace because, Kat, we're all gonna die.

We talk about it in our books.

We're all going to be there, no matter.

It's the only certainty, right? It is that you.

Death and taxes, apparently.

Yeah. It's the only certainty is that you'll. You'll be leaving at some point.

And I have always thought to myself, I don't want to be like, leaving screaming in pain or in fear.

If you accept it because there's no other choice, then it frees you, doesn't it, to live to your purpose?

Yeah.

It's the ultimate thing. We have to accept. How many people do that? Well.

And even if you believe in reincarnation, which I do, the fact is, who you are in this moment will never, never be again, even in this moment. Even when we walk out of this room, we are not the same people that walked in.

So why not be 100% present in this moment, right?

Just love it.

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