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Welcome, dear friends.

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Welcome back to A Call for Love,

and we are celebrating two and

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a half years of podcasting.

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I can hardly believe that I have sat here

in front of the mic really sharing from

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my heart this message, a call for love.

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Today my message is shifting.

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There has been an evolution.

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So if you're new, welcome and

if you're a longtime listener,

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I wanna see how this lands.

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Alright, to begin, I wanna share

that what's been in my heart is

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I am in love with a new word.

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I know that sounds kind of silly, but

I am in love with the word evolve.

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A lot of people talk about transformation,

you know, uh, they promise transformation.

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I probably have said this as

well, but transformation is big.

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It's dramatic.

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It's like a caterpillar turning into

a butterfly, but in my experience.

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Growth is more natural.

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It's more of an evolution.

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That's what I've noticed in my life,

and it's about gently peeling away

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the layers, letting go of these

old beliefs and stepping into the

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next truest version of ourselves.

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We're always evolving.

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I just love the concept in

the doda ching in verse 15.

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It reads, do you have the

patience to wait till your mud

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settles and the water is clear?

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Can you remain un moved till the

right action arises by itself?

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David G always used to say this,

and I found it in the doda ching.

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It is so true because that's

what evolution is about.

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It's about staying clear,

compassionate, and having courage.

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When you evolve, when you are going

through the evolution process of

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yourself, it requires compassion.

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Courage and clarity that

often means patience.

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Patience, waiting until the mud settles

in order for evolution to happen.

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And evolution is a natural process.

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We are naturally brought here.

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I believe this is strongly to

evolve for our souls to evolve for.

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Humankind to evolve.

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Are we doing a great job?

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Well, that is a debate that we

are gonna share for another time.

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But when you heal yourself, when you

transform yourself, you transform

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those around you, and that becomes

a ripple outward into the world.

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Alright, the exciting news for

a Call for love is that . i'm

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including a four series book club.

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Never done this On a Call for Love.

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If you know anything about me,

I was a school teacher for over

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30 years and I was a teacher

librarian for seven of those years.

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I love books.

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I love writing.

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It's a huge, huge part of my life.

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In fact, I treat books like

friends, and that is why I

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thought, why not have a book club?

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We're talking about.

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Evolving, evolving ourselves to step

into the highest version of ourselves,

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and that is a continuous process, right?

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One step in front of the

other moving forward.

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So I don't wanna give you all the

details, but beginning next episode

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for four episodes, we're diving into a

book, I'm separating it into four parts.

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And there will be an opportunity for

you to join live I'm so excited.

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I've recorded the first one, which I was

actually gonna share today, but I decided

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no, it needs a little bit of time to

marinate and I really, really want to talk

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to you about this new message about how

to evolve, empower, and elevate ourselves.

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That's where we're going to begin today.

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Because if you've been on my

website, which is getting a lot

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of traction these days and it's

being rebuilt, super exciting.

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I have had the message for

quite a while awakened to

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peace, love, joy, and abundance.

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And you know what?

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I've evolved from that.

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It's good.

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We all want that, but you know what?

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I want more.

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I, I want the nitty gritty empowerment.

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Embodying that essence,

elevating ourselves, evolving.

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These are action words.

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We are going to create the intention.

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Without the intention,

It cannot come to life.

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This is what I'm talking to you

here about today is the evolution

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of our soul, the evolution of

our journey, one step at a time.

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The catalyst for this has been multifold.

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So transformation is like a aha moment.

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It's a catalyst for change and

something happens like this is fast,

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it's dramatic, I've transformed.

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It's very, very in your face.

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Evolution is a little bit more gentle.

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Because it's more natural.

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And I also feel that when something's

more natural, it's lasting.

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It's like taking one step

in front of the other.

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And , this evolution is noticing.

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So I came home from 10 days up north and.

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We have a WaveRunner.

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If you do not know what a WaveRunner

is, it's a personal watercraft,

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like a jet ski or a SeaDoo.

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And I had an incident about a year

ago where I was very scared on it.

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I was driving it.

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I turned too quickly.

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We spun and twisted and

it was, it just scared me.

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And ever since then I've been

very reluctant to drive the

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WaveRunner, the personal watercraft.

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And I decided if I want to move

through this, I have to become clear.

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I.

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I have to become compassionate

with myself, and I want to

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really find the courage.

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It came a day that we went on and my

husband, Gord says, , do you wanna drive?

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But it was very wavy.

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I said, well, that's not compassionate.

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That's not a good time to find

the courage to really dive

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into driving the WaveRunner.

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So I, I declined.

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I decided to take those baby steps,

go when the water was calm, start

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slow, and build up the courage.

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That's how I feel evolution is.

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It's building it up one step

at a time with clarity, with

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compassion, with courage.

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These are my three C words.

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Clarity, compassion, and courage.

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Can you invite this in?

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To your personal evolution.

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When I think of evolution

it's really an evolution.

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And an evolution refers to, so evolution

is more outward and an evolution is

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something, it's an inner journey.

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It's a turning inward, uh,

deepening into our true self.

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And when we notice these two paths.

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Evolution and evolution.

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We are deciding how we're

navigating through our experiences.

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We're know we want to take one step

in front of the other to evolve our

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spiritual, soulful, human self combined.

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That requires turning inward.

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It's requires uncovering who

we are underneath, beneath the

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layers of our social conditioning.

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And ultimately it is a sacred journey.

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I.

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It's a sacred journey inward.

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It's a sacred journey to peel back the

layers of those illusions of who we were

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in order to step into our higher power and

power ourselves into who we actually are.

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I say to myself, those old

stories, I'm done with them.

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They're exhausting.

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They are boring.

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They're like somebody nagging

in my ear enough already.

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It's time to step forward.

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It's time to involve.

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It's time to empower ourselves.

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It's time to elevate.

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This is not a selfish action.

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The more we step into our

personal power, the more we.

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Really notice our soulful self,

the better stewards of our

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life and the earth we can be.

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And that's the goal.

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As I said before, when we transform

ourselves, we transform the world.

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So many people have said this.

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Dr.

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Wayne Dyer says it.

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You know, Joe Dispenza says it.

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, David G, so many people say this in

their own words because it's true.

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The simplest truths.

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Are the biggest truths Steven

Mitchell's, , translation of the Do Ching.

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He says, do you have the

patience to wait till your mud

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settles and the water is clear?

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Can you remain unmoving till the

right action arises by itself?

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I love this, and it deserves more

attention when you think of mud.

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It really stands for our concepts,

our judgements, our desires, our

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expectations, the illusions of our

thoughts, feelings and sensations.

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The five sensations, hearing,

seeing, touching, feeling, tasting.

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These all narrow and actually obscure

our reality and in the Doda ching,

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it tells us to really notice this.

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It asks us to wait to

find the correct action.

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Yoga star Ku Kani from potentially

in the Yoga Sutras says, pause.

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Establish yourself in the present moment.

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Then perform action.

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This is the same concept and the

most powerful concepts are said

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over and over again by our master

teachers, both ancient and modern day.

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And that's why I share them

because they're true and they work.

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Now, Steven Mitchell asked his old

Zen master to comment on, do you

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have the patience to wait until your

mud settles and the water is clear?

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Can you remain unmoving till the

right action arises by itself?

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And his zen master said, our mind

is like a glass of clear water.

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If we put salt into the water,

it comes out like salt water.

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If we put sugar in, it

becomes sugar water.

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If we put shit in, it becomes shit water.

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But originally the water is clear.

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No thinking.

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No mind.

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No mind, no problem.

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And that's the piece of

evolution that I really love.

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This waiting, becoming clear.

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Finding the courage and navigating through

compassionate moments is how we evolve.

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It's how we evolve.

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I was talking to my sister about this

this morning and she was mentioning,

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you know, evolution for her.

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The evolution is not always plain.

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It's not always simple.

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It's often painful.

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It's can be very painful to evolve as a

spiritual being, and that is something

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that we try to save others from,

especially those people we really love.

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But that does not serve them very well.

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When we try to save others, we

are actually preventing them

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from going through the process

of evolution of their involution.

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You may know this story.

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It's a really powerful story and I

love it deeply, so I'd like to share

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it with you, which it really brings

to light what I'm trying to say.

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A man spent hours watching a butterfly

struggling to emerge from its cocoon.

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It managed to make a small hole, but its

body was too large to get through it.

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After a long struggle, it

appeared to be exhausted.

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And remained absolutely still, the man

decided to help the butterfly and with

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a pair of scissors, he cut open the

cocoon, thus releasing the butterfly.

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However, the butterflies body

was very small and wrinkled,

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and its wings were all crumpled,

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The man continued to watch, hoping that

any moment the butterfly would open its

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wings and fly away, nothing happened.

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In fact, the butterfly spent the rest

of its brief life dragging around.

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Its shrunken body and shriveled wings.

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Incapable of flight What the man out

of kindness and his eagerness to help

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had failed to understand was that

the tight cocoon and the efforts that

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the butterfly had to make in order

to squeeze out of that tiny hole were

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nature's way of training the butterfly

and of strengthening its wings.

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This story is from Paolo Colo and

it Clearly shows us that with the

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struggle, I believe this to be true for

me, and what I've seen from my clients

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is when we struggle, it builds clarity.

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It builds.

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Courage.

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It builds determination.

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It builds that desire to move past,

often illusions, conditionings that

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we have met through our socialization.

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In order to move past them.

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Past them.

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There's always going to be obstacles when

we decide that we want something, I feel

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it's like the universe says, oh, really?

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Do you really want that?

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Okay, prove it to me.

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Prove that you really want it.

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Because if we said, you know, I want

a million dollars, I wanna go away.

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I mean, we would be all over . It

would be very scattered.

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But when we create an intention

and we decide that we want

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something become very clear.

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And that's where meditation is

very, very helpful because it.

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It asks us to get still and quiet in

order to hear the whisperings of our soul.

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When we hear the whisperings of our

soul, we can hear the messages and

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find clarity of how we want to move

forward, how we are moving in that

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involution in order to become better.

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I would like to say people, I feel people

is like the skeleton of our body, soulful

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people, soul spirits, how we evolve in

our values, in our ethics, in our actions

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when we are squeezing out of our cocoon.

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That's a huge transformation.

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When we come out and fly, the evolution

part, I feel is that cocoon, that

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building, that growing, that fighting,

and then aha, the, the aha moment

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where you come out of your shell,

where you come out of that cocoon and

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you come out with a, a defining moment

that was a catalyst to get you there.

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I, led a chorus, which I will be making

public in my new membership and I

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ask prompts to the people who join.

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And I would like to invite

this here on this podcast.

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Of course, if you are walking or driving

or doing something that is not safe,

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you can just answer it in your mind.

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You can press pause, answer

it, and then play back.

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Or I invite you to write it down.

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Once something gets written

down, it becomes power You have

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sent it out into the universe.

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It's already out there and you

can't unsee what you've seen.

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You can't unhear what you've said.

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You can't undo what has been

sent out into the universe, and

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that's why taking pen to paper.

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So powerful spirit has heard and if it

resonates with you to write these down.

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So I'm gonna ask them to you just hold

space for them and see how they land.

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Ask yourself, Where am I feeling

pressure to change quickly.

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Where am I feeling

pressure to change quickly.

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The wave runner for me

was the perfect example.

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I wanted to just get on it, get going.

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Maybe that would work, but

it wasn't working for me.

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I didn't want or need pressure.

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I was pressuring myself.

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For me, baby steps are more

realistic for others, a fast,

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like just get to it works too.

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But notice where you

are pressuring yourself.

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The word here is pressuring yourself.

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When you're pressuring yourself.

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it's forced and flow to grow.

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When it's flowing, it's a natural

order and evolution to grow.

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next, . What would it look

like to evolve naturally?

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How would, how would you move through

something and evolve more naturally

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with clarity, compassion, and courage?

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Once again, I will take the

WaveRunner story going on a calm day.

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Saying I can do it.

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Like I finding the courage being

with, , somebody who supports me

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and says, yeah, you could do it.

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I'm gonna go from point A to point B.

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I'm gonna start slowly, then I'm

gonna put my foot on the gas and

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I'm gonna increase the speed.

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That's how I'm gonna get over

my fear and just move forward.

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To evolve naturally, to conquer that fear.

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And what parts of you are ready

to be revealed rather than fixed.

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We're not fixing ourselves.

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We're not broken.

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Yeah.

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We have bumps.

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Yeah.

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There are roadblocks.

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We're believing illusions that are

not even true, that we picked up along

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the way, but where we are we ready?

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Ready to move forward

to take that next step.

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I always think of like watching yourself

walk on the beach with your footprints.

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You take one step forward, you

take another step forward, you

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take another step forward, you take

another and another and another.

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You don't feel empowered until you

look over your shoulder and you see

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how far you've come when you look back.

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It gives you further courage to

keep on taking those steps forward.

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That's evolution, through intentions

for getting to your destination.

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As I leave you here today, I'd like

you to think and ponder for a moment.

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Where in your life are you evolving?

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Where are you taking

that next step forward?

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That's what a call for love is.

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It's noticing where you're living.

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Are you living in a, uh, state

of fear, stress, anxiety?

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Those are not serving us.

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it's old.

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It's getting old.

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How do you wanna shift?

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When you decide what you wanna

shift, then you can shift.

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It's a call for love.

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It's a call to step forward, one step at

a time towards the destination, towards

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evolving your soul, to evolving yourself.

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As I said, when we.

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Transform ourselves.

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We transform the world.

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Be the change you seek in the world,

and the world will change with you.

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One moment at a time,

one person at a time.

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We can't blame others for holding

resentment, anger, fear, judgment,

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If we are holding it ourselves,

and that's the message here.

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We wanna notice where we're living.

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We want to evolve.

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It's an involution to evolve, empower,

and elevate ourselves to the next level.

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There's so many levels, it's exciting.

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Think of it as a game.

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Where am I going next?

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Like when you plan a travel.

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agenda, where am I going next?

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How am I gonna move

forward more in my life?

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And the beautiful thing is I do believe

the universe wants what's best for us.

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Do we want what's best for us?

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That is the message.

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I thank you for listening

here to a Call for Love.

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I really hope you join the book Club.

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It will be on for four episodes.

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I can't tell you the name of the

book because it is a surprise,

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but it is a game changer.

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It's an oldie and a goodie.

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It's a great read, A fast read,

really heartfelt, and you'll

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notice changes in your life.

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. I.

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I spread it over the four episodes

so that you could marinate in each

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message, and that's the evolution.

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It's the lasting changes.

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When you go steady, , you make

changes, changes that last, Everything

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clicks and voila, transformation.

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Always wishing you great.

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love, and joy from my heart to yours.

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Namaste.