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What is this one thing that the earth
is asking of you that you can take on
Speaker:today to truly help this
planet? Self-compassion.
Speaker:Hello and welcome back to
Remember Why You're Here,
Speaker:a podcast for seekers and sensitives
where you can relax, receive,
Speaker:reconnect to yourself and remember
the most important thing of all,
Speaker:why you're here. I'm Asia Suler, author,
Speaker:earth intuitive, teacher,
Speaker:and in this episode today I
wanted to revisit a message
Speaker:that has really been at the core of the
center of my life now for many years and
Speaker:one that I need to hear again and again.
Speaker:Life is just one of those
things that continues to happen.
Speaker:I find that being sensitive
means not just being
Speaker:attuned to our own journeys,
Speaker:the things that are happening
in our personal lives.
Speaker:It's also about being aware
of what's happening in the
Speaker:larger community, in the
world as a whole in humanity,
Speaker:whether or not we realize it,
Speaker:we're often attuning to
these big larger themes
Speaker:around us.
Speaker:I know for myself as I go about
my day-to-day, daily life,
Speaker:I can often start to get this
feeling like I'm not doing enough.
Speaker:Somehow my ability to show up for the
Speaker:world is not up to snuff,
Speaker:that the way in which I'm showing
up in a day-to-day kind of way in my
Speaker:work, in my parenting, in my
relationships, in my business,
Speaker:that there's something
that I'm not fulfilling.
Speaker:And so much of this comes
down to as sensitives,
Speaker:our drive and our orientation to be
Speaker:attuning to other people.
Speaker:This is part of the setup of
being a sensitive person and in
Speaker:particular the experiences that
we have throughout our life,
Speaker:that we often receive this
message that we are most valuable
Speaker:when we are tuning to other people. And
this includes relationships in our life,
Speaker:but this also includes wider
global patterns, the larger stage.
Speaker:And there's a reality in
which as sensitive people,
Speaker:we actually do have a really
strong ability to hold
Speaker:compassion, to connect
to humanity as a whole,
Speaker:to envision better futures,
Speaker:to recognize patterns of what's
happening in the world and have the
Speaker:ability to access visionary states,
Speaker:visionary information to bring in data,
Speaker:to bring in awareness of how to shift.
Speaker:So all of this is true
and at the same time,
Speaker:we can also get a little lost in
constantly projecting our awareness
Speaker:outwards. And when we do this,
we start to self-abandon.
Speaker:And so anytime I start feeling like I'm
Speaker:somehow doing it wrong, when I start
feeling like I'm not doing enough,
Speaker:when I start having this stress,
Speaker:like my little life is
somehow not up to snuff,
Speaker:I come back to this message,
to this transmission,
Speaker:this awareness that has really been
at the heart of my work for so long.
Speaker:So let's go ahead and play this audio,
Speaker:what the earth is asking of you so that
if you are in a moment of time right now
Speaker:where you are really feeling like
you're holding a lot in your heart,
Speaker:you're really wondering how you can
show up for the bigness of this time,
Speaker:keep listening because this is
your ability right now to connect
Speaker:into the truth of what the
earth is asking of you.
Speaker:For those of us with an
ecological consciousness,
Speaker:we're always asking
ourselves, "What can I do?
Speaker:What can I do to help this earth?
Speaker:What can I do to help the
healing?" Often the options or
Speaker:the solutions seem really overwhelming,
Speaker:like something that would be impossible
for a single person to take on or would
Speaker:take many lifetimes. But
what if there was something?
Speaker:What if there was a solution
and something that you could do,
Speaker:something that you could start doing today
that would make all the difference in
Speaker:the world?
Speaker:What is this one thing that the earth
is asking of you that you can take on
Speaker:today to truly help this
planet? Self-compassion.
Speaker:I used to think self-compassion
and selfishness went hand in hand,
Speaker:but the exact opposite is true.
Speaker:Self-compassion is about
learning to see ourselves,
Speaker:to understand ourselves
as a whole part of nature,
Speaker:just as a tree is a beautiful
part of this planet.
Speaker:Self-compassion helps us to see the
same within ourselves and it helps us to
Speaker:come back into wholeness
within our own being.
Speaker:The roots of the problems in
our world right now come from
Speaker:fragmentation. It comes from
wholeness having been broken.
Speaker:I remember hearing the physician
and author, Gabor Mate,
Speaker:describe trauma as a
disconnection from yourself.
Speaker:In the moment that trauma happens,
Speaker:the experience is too intense that
we can't fully stay with ourselves,
Speaker:so we actually break from ourselves. Now,
Speaker:this is a way to adapt to the
stress and shock of this moment,
Speaker:but then we always need to be able to
come back on the other side to come back
Speaker:into wholeness. Now, if we
look at the world at large,
Speaker:what we see is trauma playing
out and basically every
Speaker:manmade disaster and ecological
hurt that's going on in this planet.
Speaker:It's the trauma of individuals and
whole cultures who are disconnected from
Speaker:themselves, who don't
remember their wholeness.
Speaker:When we can have compassion for
ourselves, what we've experienced,
Speaker:how we react to things,
what's going on in our life,
Speaker:we come back to our own wholeness.
We reclaim the wholeness within us.
Speaker:We begin to heal our trauma by simply
coming back to this wholeness and
Speaker:reuniting with the width of who we are.
Speaker:And when we can acces that,
Speaker:we can begin to understand the gifts
that we were meant to bring into this
Speaker:world to help this planet heal,
Speaker:to help the earth on this
journey of regeneration.
Speaker:When we can see and recognize
this wholeness in ourselves again,
Speaker:we access the most precious
thing of all, which is our gifts,
Speaker:the gifts that we came
here to give this planet,
Speaker:the gifts that we are here to translate
and bring to this earth to help the
Speaker:earth heal. For this reason,
Speaker:the earth is always reflecting back
to us our goodness. The natural world,
Speaker:the living world is constantly
showing you your wholeness.
Speaker:It is teaching us self-understanding
and self-compassion because the living
Speaker:world, which is much wiser and
wider than our own minds and selves
Speaker:knows that self-compassion is
essential to stepping into healing
Speaker:personally and globally. So if you
need some science to back this up,
Speaker:research shows that increased
self-compassion can help us also
Speaker:increase our sense of responsibility
towards others, morality and empathy.
Speaker:Stable self-esteem is also positively
correlated with things like
Speaker:curiosity to learn new things and
a desire to challenge ourselves.
Speaker:If we take all of this as a whole,
Speaker:we see that learning self-compassion
is not a side pursuit in the healing of
Speaker:ourselves in the world.
Speaker:It is essential that when we learn
how to have compassion for ourselves,
Speaker:we step into our power as those who hold
healing and hold gifts for this planet
Speaker:for our communities and for ourselves.
Speaker:Learning self-compassion has been a huge
part of my journey here on this planet.
Speaker:If you had asked me 10 years ago if
I struggled with self-compassion or
Speaker:self-love, I probably
would've told you no.
Speaker:And it was because I was so disconnected
from what true self-compassion felt
Speaker:like that I wouldn't have even have known
that what I experienced about myself
Speaker:or the way I saw myself in the
world wasn't actually my wholeness.
Speaker:I wasn't seeing myself
for who I really was. Now,
Speaker:there's a lot of reasons why we can
start to doubt our own goodness and lack
Speaker:compassion for ourselves and normally
it boils down to some sort of trauma in
Speaker:our life, which all of us have experienced
at some point in our existence.
Speaker:But the incredible thing is all you
need to do is spend time with the living
Speaker:world and this earth will
show you your wholeness again.
Speaker:It will lead the way
back to self-compassion.
Speaker:And this is exactly why I wrote
my book, Mirrors in the Earth:
Speaker:Reflections on Self-Healing
From the Living World.
Speaker:This book is a guide from the living
world that takes you on a journey in
Speaker:tandem with nature to go
from self-recognition to
Speaker:self-acceptance to true self-compassion.
Speaker:Each chapter will introduce you to the
living world to a process that is going
Speaker:on around you to the magic of this
earth we call home and it will
Speaker:show you exactly what the earth showed
me through all these explorations that
Speaker:you are good, that you are worthy,
Speaker:that you are needed and that you are
beloved because at the end of the day,
Speaker:the truth is self-compassion
itself is a force of ecological
Speaker:healing. The earth knows this and it's
time for us to remember this as well.
Speaker:Your journey of learning to come home to
yourself is essential to the whole and
Speaker:I wrote mirrors in the earth
to help you on that journey.
Speaker:This piece of self-compassion being
a force of ecological healing,
Speaker:self-compassion being the thing that
the earth is asking for us has been
Speaker:so essential for me in my life and
I think it's really important for us
Speaker:sensitives to remember because the
thing is even the fact that we are
Speaker:asking this question,
Speaker:what is the earth asking of me
is an indicator of our heart,
Speaker:is an indicator of our compassion,
Speaker:is an indicator of all the ways in
which we are actually so dedicated to
Speaker:this planet. I really think as sensitives,
Speaker:we come in with a deep desire
to be of service to this planet,
Speaker:that we come in and
have this sort of innate
Speaker:deep connection to the earth.
Speaker:And I just really want to take a moment
today to honor you for the fact that you
Speaker:ask that question,
Speaker:for the fact that you are curious and
just for you to know that the fact that
Speaker:you're asking that is an
indicator of how deeply you care
Speaker:and the earth wants you
to remember that you are
Speaker:nature,
Speaker:you are the earth and that
everything begins from this
Speaker:place of self-compassion. And even though
I clearly wrote a whole book on this,
Speaker:it's something that I need to
remind myself of again and again and
Speaker:again, because a lot of times those
programs of self-admonishment,
Speaker:of putting ourselves last,
Speaker:of somehow feeling like we are doing
it wrong, those programs are strong.
Speaker:Those programs can really be interwoven
into the fabric of our lives in ways we
Speaker:have a hard time seeing.
Speaker:And so grounding in this awareness
every day that one of the
Speaker:biggest gifts you can give
this earth is self-gentleness,
Speaker:self-acceptance, and self-compassion.
Speaker:So I'm curious today,
Speaker:what is one thing you can be
gentle with yourself about?
Speaker:Is there something that you've been
bringing up again and again as a
Speaker:self-criticism today? Is there something,
Speaker:even if it's subtle that you've been
putting pressure on yourself around to do
Speaker:or to accomplish,
Speaker:just take a moment right
now and notice that voice.
Speaker:Notice whatever is connected to the stress
or the activation in your body right
Speaker:now, notice what that voice is saying.
Speaker:And then once you notice what
this voice is actually saying,
Speaker:because sometimes we're not even realizing
what that voice is actually saying,
Speaker:but once we can tune into what
that voice is actually saying,
Speaker:then we can come in with
some self-gentleness.
Speaker:Sometimes I imagine that the earth
is speaking to me through my voice,
Speaker:sometimes it's a tree or a flower,
Speaker:but I allow that voice
to come through and I
Speaker:speak to the part of me that is really
trying to keep me safe in so many
Speaker:ways, trying to keep me safe by trying
to keep me in line by constantly
Speaker:self-monitoring and I bring in this
other voice, the voice of the earth,
Speaker:the voice of the plants,
the voice of the angels,
Speaker:whatever works for you and
I reply. And in that reply,
Speaker:I try to find any way in which I
can just be gentle myself today.
Speaker:Sometimes it just begins with saying,
Speaker:"That makes sense that you feel that
way and in this moment I'm going to give
Speaker:myself permission to slow down." That
makes sense that you'd be wanting to
Speaker:monitor that right now
and right now what's
Speaker:most helpful is for me to
remember that I'm just human.
Speaker:That makes sense and for now I'm going
to put that thought down and simply
Speaker:breathe.
Speaker:So tune into the gentle
response that is being asked for
Speaker:here,
Speaker:that the response that helps that part
of you that is constantly self-monitoring
Speaker:to just relax even just
5% here today because I
Speaker:promise you when we can connect
to self-gentleness in moments
Speaker:like these, we access so much more
creativity, so much more vision,
Speaker:so much more potential and we come back
into the on place where we can really
Speaker:make the greatest change in this
world and that's within our own
Speaker:selves.
Speaker:So thank you for being with me today
as we revisit the absolute need
Speaker:for self-compassion
that we sensitives have.
Speaker:And if you would like to connect even
deeper with me or even deeper into this
Speaker:space, I would love to see
you over on my new Substack.
Speaker:Remember why you are here.
Speaker:There have been amazing conversations
around some of these podcast episodes over
Speaker:on the Substack.
Speaker:I've also been sharing extended
reflections on the episodes
Speaker:as well as monthly roundups talking
about our intuitive readings going even
Speaker:deeper with them at the end of the month.
Speaker:And this week I actually just
released a little mini course
Speaker:follow-up episode to our intuitive
reading for this month called The Dream
Speaker:Remembrance Recipe because
I have gotten this hit
Speaker:that our dreams are coming in
this month in a big way to help us
Speaker:really orient to the shifts that we
need to make inside of ourselves to
Speaker:fully be in alignment with our paths,
Speaker:to fully be in alignment with
kind of the runway that I see is
Speaker:the last half of this year.
Speaker:It's sort of like a runway where so much
can happen and so many of the messages
Speaker:that are coming in for us from our own
wider self through the earth will be
Speaker:coming in through our dreams.
Speaker:And so I created this little mini
course specifically for this month
Speaker:this time to help you really open the
portal of your dreams to remember them
Speaker:more to call in some big dreams.
So if you're interested in that,
Speaker:head on over to my Substack and
check it out. It is a paid post,
Speaker:but it's just $5 a month to acces all
of the paid content over there on the
Speaker:Substack as well as that deeper community.
Speaker:So thank you so much for being
here with me for this episode.
Speaker:Thank you so much for all the ways in
which you are continuing to companion
Speaker:yourself in this life. It's
a big deal, it's big work.
Speaker:And as you continue to do
this work for yourself,
Speaker:as you continue to show up for yourself,
Speaker:may be blessed with moments of
vision and perspective and may you
Speaker:always be able to connect to and
remember that most important thing of all
Speaker:why you're here.
