Discover how planetary-tuned gongs can shift your nervous system, unlock hidden abundance, and help you thrive through life's biggest changes.

Athena talks gongs, cosmic cycles, and manifestation with Dr. Christopher Powell bringing ancient wisdom into modern practice.

Christopher is a trained and board certified Doctor of Chiropractic and Kundalini Yoga Teacher since 2003. Post graduate certified advanced level Network Spinal Analysis (N.S.A), with studies in Advanced Somatic, Energy Emotion Healing Release, Sacred Body Language Translation and Yin Meridian Yoga.

You can follow Christopher on IG: @CymaticEmergence

And checkout all his offerings at: www.DrEmbrace.com

Athena on Phone: Welcome to the

Awakening to Abundance podcast.

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I'm your host, Athena.

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This podcast is more than a podcast,

it's a transformative journey, designed

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to help you awaken to your abundance,

for you to discover what living

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the fullness of life means to you.

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As always, we're jumping

right in with today's episode!

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Audio Only - All Participants:

Oh, so good.

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Okay.

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So can you tell us a little bit more,

and maybe even show us, if possible, the

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different gongs that you have in your

office and that you use in your work?

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And then a little bit more about each

one is connected to a planet or resonates

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more in our heart, or any and everything,

for people who have never, ever heard

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of gongs being helpful with all of this.

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Yeah.

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First I'll just describe the

different gongs, 'cause I've curated,

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I've got over a dozen gongs now.

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Not all gongs are equal.

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There's many different types of gongs.

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Gongs just as you walk by to announce

yourself going into a temple.

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They've been used in Asia to announce the

gods, used for ceremony, and healing and

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spiritual pursuits for thousands of years.

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But the gongs that I chose,

that I resonate most with are

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planetary tuned symphonic gongs.

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So that's where the word

Cosmo sonic comes from.

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Because for example, I'll walk

you around and show you, the first

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gong I ever got was the sun gong.

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And you can see the symbol of the sun,

which is also the symbol for gold.

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So the sonic alchemy is to help

us to amplify the gold in the more

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dense parts, the lead, so to speak.

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So that's what alchemists do.

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So this is atuned to our sun and it's

more of our conscious self, the vitality,

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our vital life force can help to amplify

that in the system or bring light to areas

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that, where our shadow, our shadows are.

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And then over here I've got Earth.

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So you can see the symbol of Earth here.

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And this one helps us to ground

the higher aspects of our being.

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So that we're not just blown out and

in la la land and woo woo, but we

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can really embody the wisdom and the

medicine can be titled out there.

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So these gongs will affect

certain parts of our neurology.

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So for example, mother Earth

would be more of the first chakra.

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So that we can really root

to rise, so that we feel safe

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and that we feel grounded.

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So I'll just play a little

bit of this and the beautiful

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healing harmonics is 432 hertz.

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And that frequency is incredible

to help us to entrain or find

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coherence when we're out of,

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out of tune.

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If you can hear

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sound coming through.

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Can you hear that?

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Okay.

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So that will be Mother Earth.

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And then I have some other gongs

that- this one here is Italian and

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its main frequency is 111 hertz 1 1 1.

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So that helps us to find

balance in the nervous system.

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And each gong has multiple tones,

harmonics, overtones they're called.

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So not just one frequency, but multiple.

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And that helps the brain to

kind of relax and to let go.

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'cause the brain can't technically

figure it out, doesn't know what to do

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with all these overtones and harmonics.

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So it, over time, it has to just

surrender and let the sound do its thing.

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So that's what's beautiful too.

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So here's,

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you can see a rose on here.

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This is called a Desert Rose Stargate.

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So just like there's gateways on the

spine that I touch as a chiropractor to

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help amplify what's connected, what's

working, instead of trying to adjust

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what's out of place, necessarily- not

wrong, but it's just what I vibrate with.

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These will help to, these are

powerful sonic gateways to help

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us entrain to more harmony.

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And then this one over here, this

one that looks like an eye is called,

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this is a Universal Heart gong,

the spiritual eye of the heart.

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And it's tuned to the heart.

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It's tuned to f and f sharp.

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So it's a beautifully tuned gong.

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And helping us to return to our

center, but also the different tones

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will stimulate energy channels.

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So I'll just let you hear this.

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And then I'll just lay people down

on this table that has infrared heat

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and pulse electromagnetic frequencies

that make the body really receptive.

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So that when you're laying down

your nervous system is receptive and

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able to entrain with the different

harmonics, and tones and frequencies-

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this vibrational medicine.

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This one tunes the higher heart.

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That one's mercury, so maybe more of the

throat chakra- a messenger of the gods,

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connecting, helping you to receive the

messages from those other bodies, the

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other nine bodies beyond the physical.

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We've got Chiron.

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This can affect the lower

triangle, lower chakras.

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Yeah, so each gong, they're curated.

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These are curated for my office,

but when I do a workshop,

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I may bring up to 13 gongs.

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And I will do workshops that are based on

powerful cosmic nodes of transformation.

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Like for example, summer solstice

or the next one I have coming

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up is on the spring equinox.

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So these are already powerful gateways

that our ancestors have been aligning

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with for centuries, for the millennia,

because they know the veil is thin,

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they know there's an alignment

with our solar bodies, our planets.

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And when those align at certain

aspects we can tap into that alignment.

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Like I said before, as above, so below.

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As within, so without.

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And as the Universe, so the soul.

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So that's the full wisdom- goes

back through ancient Egypt.

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And that's what I love to bring

to my medicine, to each individual

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session, to each class, to workshop.

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And eventually, to my retreat

space which is in New Mexico.

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And have you thought about doing

anything online or because it is such

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a experiential thing- because you can

literally feel the vibrations in person,

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you tend to want to just

do things in person?

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For now I think the ceremonious

and the ritual is such a beautiful

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way to bring community together.

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And yes, taking it

online can open that up.

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And eventually, yes you gotta

have the right mics and the right

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technology to really amplify

so you can feel the resonance.

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There's plenty of online sound

baths that are incredible.

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I listen to 'em.

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So I think eventually,

I'll have that set up.

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But personally right now, coming out

of COVID, when we were isolated from

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each other and we knew how harmful that

was, not being able to see our family,

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and just the angst that it created.

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And the kind of shutting down,

I think it's important to

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come together in community.

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And that's how we heal, in community.

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We're social beings.

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So at the moment, yes, it's in

person until probably when I get my

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retreat space and have the technology

and the things set up there.

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That'll be a way to bring

people in so they can feel the

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experience on a deeper level.

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Is there anything else that you can think

of that you would like to share with us?

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Yes.

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I would just love to share that anytime

fear of the unknown or the future

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comes up, is to really embrace the

uncomfortable and find the wisdom,

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find the gift, find the beauty in it.

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Because there's so much

out there to distract us.

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There's so many things like,

oh, armageddon and this and

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that, and things to be fearful.

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And that will just create a

nervous system that's more in

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that fight, or flight, or freeze.

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So if you can look at life and these

changes with curiosity- to even like,

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if you fall down and bang your knee,

you're like, oh wow, maybe that's

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stopped me from getting in the car and

having a even more traumatic accident.

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Try to find the gift even in this

time of great change, so that when you

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come out- emerge as a butterfly, your

wings are open and you're curious.

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Stay, even in the uncomfortable,

stay curious, stay open minded.

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I use the Ho’oponopono every day.

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As you know, the Huna, the ancient

wisdom from the Hawaiians with myself.

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I love you.

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I feel you.

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I'm sorry.

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Please forgive me.

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Thank you.

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Every day when somebody cuts

me off in traffic or when I

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feel myself getting triggered.

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Or when somebody's shouting or the left

and the right are fighting each other.

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When I can come from that

space, my nervous system can

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shift someone outside of me.

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Because when you come from that place,

sometimes you don't even know that

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person who was angry and coming at you

with anger- all of a sudden they can't

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match, if you're not matching that

frequency, they, their body doesn't

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know what to do with it and they

can shift and they have no idea why.

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How did that go from anger

to like, what am I doing?

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So I think that's important.

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And yeah, embrace these

incredible changes.

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Right now we're in this eclipse

portal to the end of August where

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we're gonna have some more eclipses.

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The next one is coming up March

3rd will be a lunar eclipse.

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So here in California at night if

we're out under the full moon, we'll

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be able to see it, if it's clear.

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So this Eclipse portal is

like an acceleration of light.

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Bringing light to our

shadows and darkness.

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We're seeing that with all these

things being brought to light

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with the files and all this.

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We're starting to see and become aware of

how things have been only serving a few.

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And it's now time to holistically say,

look, how can we thrive instead of

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just surviving- been there, done that.

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So I'm ready, I choose to thrive

and that's what I choose to bring

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to my workshops and in my sessions.

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Thank you for that.

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So I have two ending questions.

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The first is thinking about

abundance as the fullness of life,

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what is your current abundance?

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And this can be as big

or small as you want it.

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We'll start there.

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My current abundance.

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Mm-hmm.

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I always have an abundance of

curiosity and abundance of finding

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the coherence in the chaos.

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I mean, I'm human.

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Like I, I have my bad days too.

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I'm like, oh, wow, okay thanks

for bringing that to my attention.

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But having that abundance of curiosity,

and availability to stay open, and to look

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at the beauty and being self-reflective.

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My deepest desire is to actually

be of service and not harm.

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I can't even the ants that

are walking around my office,

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I can't even step on 'em.

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Or like, I try to vacuum 'em up and then

take 'em and then spread 'em outside.

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So, you know, that's my heart space.

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I just, my deep desires not to

hurt another sentient being,

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or even my plants and whatnot.

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So I have that.

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That's the abundance I'm in.

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And the abundance this year is

to steer that physically into my

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sanctuary space in New Mexico.

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And have geodesic domes there

where people can gather.

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A huge dome, like a massive dome

that's just- the periphery inside full

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of gongs So we can come together not

only for ceremony, but for sound, for

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movement, for yoga, for dance, just To

feel the energy of a geodesic dome.

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That energy that circulates in

that sacred geometric shape.

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That's this year.

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And then writing about my near death

awakening and getting that into a book.

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So that I can share that with the world.

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Perfect.

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Because that was gonna

be my second question.

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What are you manifesting?

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And so it sounds like, this space in

New Mexico and all of that, and then

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also the book, so that's perfect.

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I have the space, I have the blueprints,

now it's creating the structures.

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So, that's why I'm frequently

traveling from California through

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Joshua Tree, Sedona to Santa Fe.

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This route that's on my astrocartography-

my astrology physical line.

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When you look up the astrology

it's actually from Los Angeles,

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Joshua Trees Sedona and Santa Fe.

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I didn't know that.

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And so it makes sense why I'm

driving that route in the physical.

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So I love astrology.

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It's just so beautiful, the depth of it.

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Thank you again, Christopher,

for being here on the podcast.

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Thank you.

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I so appreciate you and allowing me to

share myself with you and your gifts.

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So I appreciate you

and all that you bring.

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Thank you for listening to this podcast

episode and being part of this community.

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I wanna hear from you.

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Email me at

[email protected]

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or DM me on Instagram

@abundancewithathena, and

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share with me your stories.

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And until next time, keep Awakening to

the Abundance that's always within you.