All The Woo Podcast

Season 2 -- F for Fortune Telling

Suzanne and Mychal share their experiences -- positive and negative -- with fortune tellers and psychics.
Mentioned in this episode:
Dark & Stormy (rum & ginger beer)
Hold on Loosely by .38 Special (1981)
Please enjoy alcohol responsibly.

Season 2 -- E for Entrainment

Suzanne and Mychal discuss what entrainment is and how they have experienced and used it.
Mentioned in this episode:
Sidewood Shiraz
The Lord's Prayer in Aramaic
Lynn Taggart
Lady Gaga, "Abracadabra"
Eagles, "New Kid in Town"
Simple Minds “Don't You Forget About Me”
The Breakfast Club
Please enjoy alcohol responsibly.
 

Season 2 -- W for Water

Suzanne and Mychal discuss the Woo of Water.
Mentioned in this episode:
Topo Chico
Dr. Masaru Emoto, "The Hidden Messages in Water"
Anahati Codes
What the Bleep Do We Know?
Fred Alan Wolf
The Holographic Universe by Michael Talbot
Please enjoy alcohol responsibly.
 

Season 2 - B for Birth (ing Creations)

Suzanne and Mychal compare notes on their creative birthing experiences, Suzanne for writing and Mychal for art and both of them for a variety of other things. 
Mentioned in this episode:
Bernard Rondeau Bougey Cerdon from Jura France
Please enjoy alcohol responsibly.
 

Season 2 - P is for Psy-ops

Suzanne and Mychal discuss the many ways your personal authority and agency MAY be getting hijacked through woo techniques. (And Suzanne miscoded the upload, which is why it's late.)
Mentioned in this episode:
Empress Gin
Dark tools: isolation, blame, overwhelm, accusations,  Distraction, gaslighting, misinformation, disinformation, half truths, confusion, loss of anything that contributes to a loss of center, deception, scapegoating, anonymous sources, manipulation, especially emotional repetition and loaded language.
Fear responses: fight, flight, fawn, freeze
The Message is the Medium by Marshall McLuhan
Please enjoy alcohol responsibly.
 
 
 

Season 2 -- K for SympatheticK MagicK

Suzanne and Mychal talk about what sympathetic magick is and how it can be used for and against us.
Mentioned in this episode:
Jefferson's Ocean Aged at Sea Bourbon
The Hero Series Seminar
Mardi Gras
"Nicepool"
Tulpa
Harry Potter
Carrie
Please enjoy alcohol responsibly.
 

Season 2 -- G for Gratitude

Suzanne and Mychal discuss how to be grateful, in big and little ways -- and the big and little things they're grateful for!
Mentioned in this episode: 
Manzoni Castile Barolo
 

Season 2 - N for Nodes

Suzanne and Mychal discuss the Moon's Nodes which are mathematical points that change every 18 months and host the eclipse seasons of the year. 
Mar 29 is the final Aries eclipse, even though the Nodes moved into Pisces/Virgo in January. 
To find where you may feel the Nodes and eclipse season, check your natal chart for your Pisces and Virgo location/houses, and also check a chart for your sun-sign "tribe" house. 
Mentioned in this episode:
A rare wine: North by Northwest by King Estate Riesling
SiriusJoy.com
Please enjoy alcohol responsibly.
 

Season 2 - C for Cavities

Suzanne and Mychal DO discuss actual teeth, but also how cavities and their consequences can be in all parts of life.
Mentioned in this episode:
DR Loosen Riesling ice wine 
Bristle Oral Test bristle health.com
The Secret Lives of Teeth 
Please drink responsibly (and swish with water soon after!).
 

Season 2 -- A for Anchor Points

Suzanne and Mychal discuss what IS an anchor point and how to make it work for you in these times of "high strangeness."
Mentioned in this episode:
Stoller Pinot Noir
"Big Bang" and "Friends" TV shows
"Let Them" by Mel Robbins
 
TRANSCRIPT:
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Hi, and welcome to All the Woo A to Z. We're your hosts, Suzanne and
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Mychal, and this is season two. Hello, I'm Mychal, and I am learning how to walk like a normal person this week.
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Hi, I'm Suzanne, and I have actually been sitting on a heating pad. I threw out my back.
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Yay.
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Welcome to All the Woo. A to Z. And this is A for anchor points, and that's anchor as in anchoring into earth, anchoring into solidity. So A-N-C-H-O-R.
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Yes. And so as always, we welcome you at our metaphorical table, but also this is, we're at a real table, which is great, but it's our non-judgmental space where we welcome you, where we discuss all of our own personal experiences and understandings of these topics. And just hope at the very least that you are entertained. So what are we drinking? So I was thinking, okay, anger points grounded.
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Now if we were really cool, we would have a picture of right now. But since we're a podcast and don't have pictures,
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Yeah. We're not just
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Imagine alphabet
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Picture oriented. No, I was thinking, okay, grounding. And I was thinking about wine and I was like, what does wine do or offer? Or maybe even not wine. What is super grounding? And the thing that came to mind is we're going to get a little technical on you here. There is something that you can do and utilize in wine making that's called gravity flow.
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Is the alphabet part making sense now? I thought so.
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But using that idea of gravity and how do you work with it? So the wine that we are enjoying is a gravity flow winery, and it's called Stoller. And they have a pinot noir. This is their Dundee hills and they're in Oregon. They're also sustainably organic. So just FYI shout out there what this means, gravity flow. It is essentially you can have it and if you're going to utilize it, you would probably use it in all points in the wine making where you're moving the wine either from one location to another essentially, and that you would have your winery be, have multiple levels to it. So it literally,
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The physical structure of the winery,
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Physical structure of the winery would be multiple levels. So that this is
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Architecture we're talking
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About? Correct. A for architecture. Yeah. There we go. Works on so many levels. Oh, not intended. Not intended, but I guess happy accident. And
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Her dad came out,
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It did, can't help it. Can't help it. Okay. So then you'd have the wine tube, take it from one tank and have the gravity allow it to flow down into either your fermentation tank, so you'd move it from crush into your fermentation tank that way. Or you can do what are called pump overs where you have all the skins and everything that all raise their way to the top when they're going through the fermentation process. And then you would take the wine from the bottom and move it back up to the top to get it to all mix up again. You can do it like that. And then even moving it into the bottle for the bottling process, you can have it then where it flows down again. But ideally, you see this often with pinot noirs
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Because
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Pinot noirs are such a thin skinned grape. They're so delicate that you really don't want a lot of extra ing or extra movement that's not necessary because it doesn't need all that. I don't
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Want to bruise the wine,
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For lack of a better explanation, but yes, essentially that's what it's about. It's about taking it easy and being as gentle as you can in the process, but allowing kind of really taking this idea of mother nature to a whole new level. Also, another bad joke, not intended, but it really works here. Sam is just, I know
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My jokes. Just imagining mother nature with all the little grapes and a little bassinet and then tipping over the bassinet to go down a slide into, and this is where it gets really weird because that is going into a vat. Yes.
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And then
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Into a bottle. But yes, the downward
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Trajectory. And oftentimes you don't normally hear this term if you're just a normal wine consumer. It's not something that you hear of that much because a lot of people who work with wine are like, A lot of people don't really care about this, but I'm telling you right now, it's a thing. And right now we're employing it in our topic of anchor points. There we go.
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So we are anchoring the wine into us.
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Correct. Okay. Enough about the wine and all of my bad dad wine jokes that I do, I can't help it. It just is there. It's natural.
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They'll just notice that she doesn't promise not to do them again,
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Just because they're not intentional. They just come out. I cannot say that they're not going to happen.
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We'll not make analogies.
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Yeah. Okay. So anchor points. I guess the question here is, Suzanne, what is the point of an anchor point?
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Can you tell? She rehearsed that. Very well done.
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Thank you. Thank you very
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Much. I think the point of an anchor point is to hold you still in the midst of whatever might be swirling around you. My concept is the eye of the storm being the still point. So there could be a hurricane out there, but within yourself, within the kingdom of your mind and your soul and your spirit and your body, you are at peace. And that is the point of the anchor point. And as craziest things may get, you carry that inner calm with you.
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So you can do a lot of different things in order to get there. Do
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You agree that that's what the point of an anchor point is?
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Yeah. I feel like it's a means of being able to find yourself again within the flurry of whatever's going on around you, amidst what's going on around you, but ultimately to bring you back in, to connect you back with your own energy, what it feels like to be you and to really connect with that again. And so I think there's a lot of things that you can do in order to get there.
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And I think that's really important because a lot of people maybe don't realize that one of the things that happens for a lot of different personality types is that they take on someone else's mental energy, someone else's emotional energies with the street outside is feeling kind of things. Those things. And so knowing what's yours and what's not yours is maybe one of the first defining steps of an anchor
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Point. I don't do any of that at all. I don't take on other people's stuff. I don't. Nope,
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Nope. You are walking rain cos let it slide. Right on. I'm an island. I cannot be judged by people in the grocery store. Nope, nope, nope.
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Yeah. Yes. This
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Could be why I have so many. I would say this is why you have so many. Yeah,
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I have so many that I do all the time. This is my jam essentially.
(07:58):
Yeah. All the practices. So for all the practices that you do do from the most basic physical to most detailed, spiritual, emotional, energetic, what are the two ends of the spectrum for you?
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I'd have to say the most easily accessible that I think anybody could identify with. And that you could do a good majority of places.
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Can I start singing the song now?
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Yeah, you can. So I have two shows that I like to watch, and both of them are pretty readily accessible to me, either through streaming services or else just if I'm traveling that it's always on cable somewhere. And that's watching both either friends or the Big Bang theory. Those are my two go-to shows where it has a sense of comfort and it's uplifting. It puts you in a good place. And because I feel so comfortable with them, it is almost like taking a bit of home with me when I'm not physically at home. And I know a lot of people who do the
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Same. I was at, actually, I was teaching a conference in Italy and more than one of the participants was like friends was always my friend group. These were the people who I knew and I grew up with and they were, when I would come home from school, they would be on, that was who they were, like my family.
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You can identify with them, you understand them, where they're coming from.
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And I think the other thing is probably by the time you've watched it as many times as you have, there's no surprises. No. So there's not any emotional
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Risk. No. And it's something they can easily put on. And because I've watched it so many times, I don't have to actively watch it. I literally will put it on and be like, okay, I got settled in my hotel room. I now need to unpack my stuff and maybe take a shower or whatever it may be. So I don't need to watch it, but I can have it on in the background. And when things start to get quiet where I am doing whatever I can do, I'm also tuning into what's being said. I'm like, oh, it's this part in the episode or something like that where it's very identifiable,
(10:21):
Gentle Listener, I do not fit into this category at all. I did not grow up with a television. Sorry. And so if the television is on, my eyes are on it, which makes it terrible for me in most of the restaurants in the United States. Now
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I
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Have to get to where I'm not, I can't see the tv, I will watch it. I just, it's like eyes in a painting. You're just drawn to it. I need to watch. I just can't not watch. But yeah, so I don't, if the TV's on, I'm watching the
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Tv see, and that way when it's streaming, when it's something that I've actively chosen to watch, I have a really hard time stepping away. I'd have to say, this is so not in relation to this topic at all, but I'm just a little personal rant here. I have a hard time when they don't have, I kind of miss commercials that you were forced to watch only for the fact of it allowed me to step away from the TV for a period of time.
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I could suggest some places
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That you could
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Watch.
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I know. I know. And even that they're not necessarily the whole length of what normal commercials were before. It'd be like, okay, commercial time, I'm going to go get up. I'm going to use the restroom really quick, and then I'll grab a drink from the fridge and then by the time I come back, I think that's the
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Pause button now. But I could be.
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It is. But if you're just so comfortable and especially what, it's so cold. It is right now, and then you're under the blankets and you don't want to get up. There's so many reasons why you don't want to. Okay. We've gotten way off topic here.
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It is really cold. It is really, really cold. We we're sitting here on heating pads, which make the whole world way better. And you can hear at least my
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Jacket. I'm doing the same. This is me right now. Yeah.
(12:05):
Mychal’s dressed for a blizzard just for the outside right now at the metaphysical, but also real table.
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Yes.
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So other
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Anchor.
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Yeah.
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The other spectrum for me, the other spectrum is
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Other end of the spectrum.
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Yeah. There we go. Yes. Thank you for the clarify. Yes. For me, that would be, especially when I'm having a hard time emotionally when I've had something really unn me that's very jarring. Either that I'm suffering a lot of anxiety and worry, and I'm just having a hard time with all of that, I will do meditation is really, really helpful. But it is more at that point, yes, it's comforting, but it is work at the same
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Time.
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It's kind of in a way not as easy as stepping away during a commercial. I have to sit down, I have to create the space and really identify that I am way far away from my baseline and that I need a hard reset.
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And so I will sit down and I will take the time to meditate. I'll even bring stones. I do it up. You don't need all those things to meditate. But I'll be like, okay, we're going to light some sage and maybe some Palo Santo both. Also, I'm going to get some incense going on the backend so that we have something that's nice going there. And then I'm going to grab a stone or two, maybe a couple, we're going to bring them around. I'm going to create the space, going to make it really nice. We're going to take some time maybe I do bring some music into some meditation music into it, which I typically don't like using meditation music personally that often is because I was taught not to. So it can be a little distracting. And sometimes that distraction in this kind of meditation can be really helpful. Yes. And then maybe on the back end, after I do all that and I'm done with the meditation, if I still need to find me after all of that, that mostly just clears out all the emotional stuff, that turmoil that's going on, then I'll put on music that I can really identify with. Oftentimes I'll use music for time periods of my life
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So that in a way it's like time traveling for me. And I'll kind of tune into whatever phase of my life I think brings the most maybe, well, honestly, I'd have to say the timeframe that I normally tune into is that time in my life where I was really identifying myself as an individual, as an adult, the newness of the world and all that kind of thing. All that kind of thing. Yeah. So that's a lot. Sorry, that's
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Very involved
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Sort of. But that's like my way, woo. Other end of the spectrum. But like I said, it's normally when I'm having a real hard time and maybe I've let myself go down the rabbit hole of anxiety and obsessive thinking, that's normally how I'll use that. I know that what I'm thinking is not rational or rooted in reality anyway, I've just run off with it is what has happened.
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So I would say in a much less elaborate way on the easiest thing end of the spectrum, I will just immediately start swaying even if I'm just swaying my legs back and forth to kind of reset my central nervous system. And there have been places, especially recently where I've been, not for myself in hospitals, but attending people, not you, in hospitals.
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All of me at one point, yes.
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I wasn't anxious about you, thank you. But where going into the bathroom and just kind of swinging around and just that sense of restabilizing, my central nervous system so that I am in a capacity of being able to receive calm as opposed to feeling like I have to go and I have to do and I have to make this thing happen, and I have to answer every question and I have to know everything and just my Mars can ramp up. So that would be probably one of the easier things. Probably the next level for that would be in my own home of turning on something really, really loud and just dancing like a banshee,
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Singing
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With it, not to, I do that more for joy, but the punk rock, I am almost throwing myself against walls kind of dancing. That would be to restabilize me. And then of course there's writing, which is sort of my form of meditation and also my form of prayer and just anything that involves words and other, I'll do that. And then if nothing else works, I'll just go soak myself. Yeah, you're a big water person. Big water person. So if a 30 minute shower can't cure it, then the 30 minute nap that follows, it certainly can.
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Well, I find, so I do when I'm on the road and I using travel as a big, because I think that's something that a lot of people can associate with, right?
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Yeah. I've done the shower trick so many times.
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Well, I joke, I shower excessively when I travel. Well, maybe not excessively just more than the average person does, mostly because it's more about grounding, it's more about clearing my energy of other people's energy. There's an actual, so that would be the woo side of
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That
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Is that you're literally washing away energies that are not yours that you happen to have collected. So not just actual physical germs and all that, but the emotional and energetic germs that you collect while you're out. So I do that a lot when I travel. When you were talking, the reason why I was asking about singing was because I know that humming for a lot of people is a pain reliever. It's one of the, yeah. Right. And so oftentimes with the rocking and the swaying people, I've done it before where I'll just start to hum and sway. And it's normally when I'm really uncomfortable
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That I'll do that. However, I know that humming is also really good for your lymph node system, right? Your adrenals, I think do really well. It's another physical coping mechanism that has been shown by science to be very helpful and calming you down. So there's a lot of things that people do like that. But I think one interesting thing that brings them all together, like this common thread that goes through it, that what you're doing is we're saying grounding yourself, bringing you back into your own energy, all of that, whatever you need to do, depending on the intensity of the outside forces, at whatever level, you need to come back to center. Which means just listening to yourself and being in touch with yourself and your own energy again.
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And I think also there's an element of being able to, you're there to master yourself so that you can go out and face whatever it is. So however you need to arrange that in terms of going physical to spiritual, spiritual to physical, whichever direction you're going on that spectrum in order to be able to handle whatever's waiting on the other side of that door. I think that's the point of anchor points. And I think is we are moving into high strange, is just going get stranger.
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We're going to need it more and more than we ever thought that we were ever going to need. Which is why I now meditate two times a day in the morning when I first wake up. And at nighttime, the morning one is really to set me up for my day. The evening one is to release all of the mental stuff that I've gone through for the day.
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And I think my water usage has gone up. Water usage, just going to put it there. It's just like I wonder, I got to write it off as a spiritual practice, probably not. But that as we are moving into these stranger times to recognize that it is in a very woo way, our personal responsibility to keep ourselves as that place of stability and calm. Because there's going to be a lot of people around all of us who haven't been on this vanguard of woo ideas and concepts and maybe don't understand what is happening around them and to them and picking up other people's energies and emotions that are out of control and reactions that are disproportionate and all those kinds of things. And to be someone who can set that example, who can be an anchor point for others,
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For others as well, to be a calming force within other people's lives. And I think one of the ways that you do that outside of just being grounded is knowing how to listen to your own voice. How do you sift through what is everybody else's versus what is your own?
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What is mine and what is not mine?
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Correct. And that's really important to be able to make that distinction. To refer back to the beginning of this conversation, as you were saying, I was joking that I don't take care or try to take on other people's things. And so obviously I do. I know that I do. It's not the worst thing I do. It's also not the best thing I do. It's neutral. Let's take it as a neutral point.
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It's because you're so empathetic and so you are constantly aware of where someone else is emotionally. I'm
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Trying to help manage
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That for them and for me. What's the difference between awareness and then organization?
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Yes. And that's why for me, it is very important. And one of the reasons why I've worked all of these things where I do more than one of these things every single day, and sometimes I need it more than other days, is mostly so that I can help listen to be clear, what is my voice in this? Where am I in this picture? And that can be really, really helpful. And especially more and more with not only just the high strange, but along with this is my understanding that it is a high likelihood that people in general, general public, are just going to gradually start to become more sensitive. And especially if you're not somebody who has been used to that your whole life, this might be more difficult.
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Right. Become kind of a shock. I recently read a book by Mel Robbins, I believe, and it's called Let Them.
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Yes.
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And I have to say, there's incredible freedom to just be like, especially as someone who does take on responsibility and who will step forward and do the thing if nobody else does or who's always thinking 17 steps down the road or whatever the decision tree is. And more than willing to share advice and information to just be like, people have a right to have their own experiences, unless, especially in a human design profile, if they do not ask me, don't volunteer. Just let them do whatever they're going to do. Let them, as long as they're not actively harming themselves or they're not my actual responsibility, this does not apply for children. She's very explicit about that in the book. But for adults, let them have their experience that is part of their life
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Journey.
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And so the times where it's been like, oh, but if I said this or persuaded them about this, gave
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Them, if I did so something different.
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And it was kind of like, no, just let them
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Realistically, no. If anything, you might be dealing somebody's progress by getting in the way of it. And I'll tell you, for me personally, that that has been a long lesson for me throughout my life that I think I'm doing a lot better with that now than I used to in my younger years of just realizing sometimes helping is hurting, and so letting people do their own thing, all of that, that can be difficult.
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So hold on to your own anchor points.
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Yes.
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And next week's letter is,
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Oh, do the little jiggle, jiggle, jiggle. Oh, and cheers. That was my ring on the glass.
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We actually have good crystal this time.
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Yes. This one is C.
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We will see you next time
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On All the Woo A to
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Z.