December 13, 2024 • 33 mins
There are four soul questions in primordial sound mediatiation, Who am I? What do I really want? What am I grateful for? and How can I serve? By asking these four questions we invite clarity, healing, awareness, and so much more to connect us more deeply with our purpose and divine being. This week Devi guides us through meditation for each question.
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
From grandmothers who whispered in their baby girl in to
fathers on dimly lit street corners instructing young soldiers to
always keep their eyes open. You be queen, You were fired,
You were passed through centuries on the hands of your daughters.
They called you wisdom. Proverbs on the backs of diamond
eyed school children who grew into hymnals recited by amethysts
(00:33):
holding urban philosophers who recited neighborhood commandments out of the
windows of restored Alchmedo chariots.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
To keep the.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Warmth in their blood, Be wise, be smart, being black,
Opal Brown courts bloodstone and prayer. Be every form of gem.
See king told, scribe, scribe told son, the son told wife,
wife told her daughter, and daughter told the answer. And
the ancestor has told me that you would come to
(01:04):
give wisdom. Thousands they said you would come.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Dropping Dropping Jim, Hey, Welcome back to another episode of
The Dropping Gem's podcast. I'm your host, Debbie Brown. This episode,
I want to dive into a little meditation. I've been
getting some beautiful feedback on the past few episodes, and
it's been really beautiful reading for those that have been
(01:29):
connecting to the meditations how much that that has allowed
you to deepen your practice. Meditation is, as many of
you know by now, just one of the most gorgeous,
powerful tools to being your heeled, whole, full self, your
(01:49):
most awakened self, and a deep passion of mine is
teaching meditation in a way that allows it to come
to life for us and allows us to connect to
a practice a lot faster. As we discussed in a
previous episode of the podcast Triggers and Meditation, there are
(02:12):
some barriers to being still and being quiet, even though
it seems like you know that would be simple, not
moving and not talking, but it's challenging and that's part
of how we build our practice. So today I wanted
to share something with you when I was first becoming
a meditation teacher, when I took a deeper leg of
(02:34):
study in my practice after practicing for a few years,
I really learned new depths of the beauty of being
able to get into the gap. And the gap is
that sweet space when we're meditating in between thoughts. So,
(02:55):
had one thought it completed, and before you moved to
the next one, there was probably a milli mili Mili
mili milliseecond in between, and that is the space of
pure potentiality where nothing has yet happened, but absolutely anything
else can. It is the highest form of our creation
(03:16):
is available in that sweet spot. And so some of
the beauty about cultivating a meditation practice is you get
to stretch that time that you're in the sweet spot.
So what may start as a millisecond, and even now
some days it's still a millisecond, you know, you might
(03:36):
find that you actually get a minute of that. Maybe
you're getting five minutes of it. I don't know. Maybe
one day you get hours of it. But that space,
that space of potential, that's where healing is birthed. That's
where healing is deepened. That's where healing occurs. And that's
(04:01):
also where your purpose occurs. That's where some of those
breakthrough thoughts come in about not just yourself and your life,
but the breakthrough thoughts of what you're here to grow,
what you're here to build, what you're here to transform,
Those awarenesses about the higher version of who you're called
(04:22):
to be with the actual roadmap to it or the
actual kind of mission marching orders that you're meant to pursue.
That's what's found in that sweet space of meditation. So, yes,
meditation is so gorgeous for nervous system regulation, it's so
amazing for our mental health, our emotional health, it's so
(04:49):
amazing for the calm you know that is so often
spoken to. The meditation is also incredible for the creativity,
for the way that it just kind of galvanizes you
towards your bigger dreams and gives you so much clarity
around those things, heightens your intuition, just it really activates you.
(05:09):
It turns you up, it turns you on. So I
wanted to guide a meditation today. That was part of
the fundamental teaching practice when I was learning to be
an educator and meditation and so, as I've shared many times,
I went through the gorgeous program that Chopra offers many many,
(05:30):
many years ago, and the choper Certification program, which is
part of Deepak Chopra is just incredible life's work and
life's study and life sharing. It was birthed around utilizing
your primordial sound. Now that's something we can get into
(05:52):
at a later time. But it's all about the calculation
of your birth time, birth location. A lot of things
you use in astrology and finding out the Sanskrit word
that best resonates with your individual soul and spirit based
on that information, and then you use that sacred word
(06:12):
silently to yourself as your mantra for your meditation practice.
And the importance of a mantra is especially as you're
learning to meditate. It becomes a really really powerful tool
for being able to release thought, to notice and have
an awareness when you are stuck in the thought, and
(06:34):
then be able to come back into the openness to
find the gap that we just discussed. So beautiful, beautiful, beautiful.
But as I was learning to teach in that program,
and something that I've done on stage so many times
as I've hosted retreats all over with Deepak is Deepak's
(06:59):
beautiful system of four Soul questions in Primordial Sound meditation.
And there are four questions that as we guide meditation,
we speak out as we are teaching people how to
come a little bit deeper into themselves. And so the
four Soul questions, I want to break them down for
(07:21):
us and give you a little more awareness around what's
happening when you're asking each of those questions, and then
we will have a meditation together where you can kind
of sink into that, really savor that. So this episode
is best listen to when you are not driving and
(07:42):
when you are not maybe operating any having machinery, or
doing anything that requires safety. I would highly recommend that
you spend maybe more than even the first lesson with
this episode. So maybe let this be a companion with
you in your practice for the next week or however
long you feel cold and really see where it begins
(08:05):
to guide you. All right, so let's first start this
conversation by centering ourselves. If it is possible for you
where you were at, I would like to invite you
to get a little more comfortable, to find an area
that you'd like to sit in, support your spine, keep
(08:29):
your belly soft, whatever feels comfortable for you. And now
let's just take a couple deep breaths in and out together.
Only this maybe three times, so just very casually. We
want to settle and kind of ground into the space
and into this moment. So I want to invite you
here with your eyes still open but soft. I want
(08:55):
to invite you to take it deep in hell in
through your nose and we'll hold it at the top
and releasing through your nose, in through your nose, and release,
(09:27):
and in through your nose and release. Now return to
a breath that just feels natural and nourishing for you.
Whatever pace feels good, that is allowing you to really
(09:51):
bring in some energy into your body and keep that
circulation moving. All right. So I want to walk through
the four soul questions and then I'm going to go
back and I'm going to speak about each individually for
a moment, and then we'll get into our meditation. So
in primordial sound meditation, the four soul questions are who
(10:15):
am I? What do I really want? What am I
grateful for? How can I serve? Who am I? What
do I really want? What am I grateful for? How
(10:37):
can I serve? So that first question, who am I?
The reason we invoke that question and why it can
be such a beautiful tool is who am I? But
without all the conditioned beliefs I have about myself? Who
(10:59):
am I? When I am? Not all the roles that
I'm playing in the world. But we're really asking with
that question who am I? We are inviting our soul
to come forward. We are inviting in an opportunity to
glimpse our higher self, our most authentic self, the version
of us that is whole, that is worthy, that is
(11:21):
in existence, even when we are not someone's friend, even
when we are not someone's relationship, someone's parents, someone's worker,
someone's boss, even when we are not whatever, it is
that the some of our personalities tells us we are.
Who am I? You know, one of the fundamental mantras
(11:46):
in meditation is I am. And when we say I am,
we don't follow that with an answer. So this is
the precursor to that I am. We are looking to
invite in the I am. And so as we ask
these questions, we are not actually looking to fill them
(12:06):
with answers at all. We are asking the question as
an invitation and invocation and intention of what can possibly
come in that is not yet known to us, but
very often is a deep remembrance, so it feels eventually
(12:27):
very soft to land into. So who am I? We
are inviting in mystery, We are inviting in layers, We
are inviting in facets. We are inviting, in a prismatic
experience into knowing ourselves. Who am I? There is so
(12:49):
much to know, there is so much to remember in
that statement. So that's the first question. The next question
and primordial sound meditation is what do I really want?
What do I really want? I think a more maybe
(13:12):
spiritual way of saying that is like, what are my desires?
The reason we are asking what do I really want?
Is because the truth is, most of us have no
idea really, right like, we are so filled with things
(13:32):
happening in society, with being influenced. Good Lord, we're in
the midst of that right now, right the last ten years,
being told, being in a space where we are looking
to match energy or compare ourselves. Right Like, it's very
(13:57):
it's very rare that we all naturally know what we
really want. The beauty is, that's what we're here to
find out because none of us know, but all of
us think everyone else knows. And when we invite in
that question what do I really want or what is
my deepest desire? We invite in healing, we invite in clarity,
(14:22):
we invite in purpose, we invite in awareness, we invite
in the opportunity to expand and explore what do I
really want? On a surface level, it could be well,
I want a relationship, or I want this job, or
I want this to happen. I want to be seen
(14:43):
like this, and then what's under that? Right? Because what
made that a desire for you? When we find out
the things that we're desiring, we can go a little
deeper and we get to look at why do I
desire that? Which sometimes on Earth's what unmet needs are
(15:04):
present that may desire our attention. You know, it could
bring up things from your life's history that need to
be observed, witnessed, healed, transformed for all of the reasons
that are usually personal to each of us. And then
when we get to that layer, we get to get curious,
(15:27):
what do I want? What do I need now that
I've landed in a healthy space? What do I need?
What does feel good when I'm not just looking at
life through a more surface view. What is a deeper need?
(15:49):
What is a deeper desire? It helps us cultivate our healing.
It helps us cultivate our purpose because when we understand
what our needs are, we also get to ee understand
the opposites of that of what we have to give
as well, Right, like, what are the areas that we
are able to share ourselves more deeply because we're so aware?
(16:18):
Question number three, what am I grateful for? What am
I grateful for? Gratitude is one of the most important
profound pieces of ourselves to cultivate and grow and enhance.
(16:43):
Living a life of gratitude allows so many of the
things that come to us to feel even better because
we feel enough where we are. When we have a
heart of gratude, we're able to meet ourselves deeper. We're
really recognizing and honoring needs that we have. We're recognizing
(17:08):
and honoring ways that we potentially showed up or opened
ourselves enough to receive. It's so important that we open
to receive so often, and I know many can relate
to this. You know, so often people are trying to
give us the best of what they're able to give us.
(17:30):
And that doesn't necessarily mean it is what we think
we need. It doesn't necessarily mean it's what we give.
But everyone has their own way of giving. And sometimes
when it's not what we think we want, or it's
not reciprocal in the way that it's how we would
do it or give it, we don't recognize it, and
(17:51):
there's a real opportunity miss there. We're not receiving something
that could be really beautiful to be on the receiving
end of not able to really see or honor the
person that's giving the giving, which can sometimes be a
feeling of an injury or a harm for them. And
that's not necessarily our responsibility. But showing up as the higher,
(18:17):
softer version of ourselves for people in our lives is
it's important, you know, as long as our boundaries are
also protected, it's important. And so what am I grateful for?
You know, Let's get fundamental. Let's realize where we might
be missing opportunities to see beauty, grace, love and gratitude
(18:37):
and things, you know, where are my needs met? Sometimes
I feel so deeply grateful for, you know, things you
may not take time to stop and see someone doing
something a little extra when you don't know them and
they absolutely don't have to and they're doing it just
because or just because it's the right thing to do,
(18:59):
or because they had time to do it. You know,
being on there seeming in of some of those small
gratitudes is so beautiful. You know, even if I'm in
the car, I really try to acknowledge, Like if someone
lets me over, I raise my hand in my mirror
so they can see and say thank you for that,
you know, granted we're merging and we're in and out
(19:19):
all day and night, but being able to just take
a moment that required something thank you. You know. The
more we can practice doing that, the more we're able
to see how abundant life actually can be for us.
And we also just energetically are creating an energy around
us that says we really like that, we like receiving
(19:42):
things that feel good. And I've found just from my
personal experience and experiences of those I know, that allows
the universe to kind of program at a higher level
for us, you know, co create experiences that we're really
(20:03):
responding to in a heartfelt way, and those experiences of gratitude,
it really creates a pathway for us to now be
attracting more things that will be grateful for. So gratitude
practice What am I grateful for now? The fourth question?
How can I serve? How can I serve? How can
(20:26):
I serve? Service to all? Service and love? It is
why we are here. Being of service is your purpose.
That is my belief. That is what I live by,
That is what I believe for myself. Service is my purpose.
(20:47):
That is why. It is less about what is my
job title? And it's more about how do I recognize
and observe my unique gifts so that I can connect
it to something that is of service for the greater
good to all. That is my purpose, and very often
(21:09):
we add a little curiosity and creativity to that, and
we're able to have a purpose that can also be
the things that we do in life and in the world,
and that can you know, potentially earn us money or
get to a place where existing in our purpose, existing
as ourselves is how we can live and how we
(21:32):
can meet our needs as well. So how can I serve?
We have to always be looking for how am I
meant to now share this? We are all conduits of
awakening for one another. We are all conduits of healing
for one another. That's the intention. It's not always executed
for each of us, but that is the intention, a
(21:53):
path of service to all for the highest good. And
when we're all on that path, that means we're also
receiving service from others. So it doesn't feel like an imbalance.
Being of service is not being a martyr. Being of
service is not you in servitude and not receiving. Living
(22:14):
a life of service is attuning to the divine flow
of why we're here to have this shared experience through
self actualization. But when we are in a space of
healthy service, serving through purpose, we are also receiving so
much that reciprocal flow, so much.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Wronging too.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
So those are the beautiful four soul questions, and now
let's test them out just a little bit. Okay, so
we will have a beautiful meditation here after listening, I
want to invite you now to readjust your body to
a level of comfort that feels supportive. Straight spine, soft belly,
(23:14):
connect to your heart, connect to your breath, and now here,
gently close your eyes, and let's start by allowing your
body to come into an even more relaxed position. So
notice any tension in your body and release it. Maybe
(23:36):
it's your jaw, your neck, your shoulders, drop them, release
that jaw, release your arms, release your stomach, your hips,
allow your legs and your knees and your calves to soften,
(24:00):
and really experience yourself as taking root right now in
this grounded, present moment. Now notice your breath and your body,
the gentle rise and fall of your chest. It could
feel comfortable in this space to have your hands palms
facing up on the tops of your thighs or on
(24:22):
the sides of you in a state of receiving, it
could feel good to maybe place the hand on your heart,
maybe one on your abdomen, either your solar plexus or
sacral so above or beneath your navel, and I will
(24:42):
invoke now the four soul questions. And again we are
not looking to fill these questions with an answer. We
are asking them and releasing them. Taking a deep breath
here in and out. Who am I? Who am I?
Speaker 2 (26:00):
M m.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
M What do I really want? What do I really want?
Speaker 4 (26:45):
M m h m m m.
Speaker 5 (27:21):
M m.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
What am I grateful for? What am I grateful for?
H m.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
M h m hmm.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
How can I serve? How can I serve?
Speaker 5 (29:10):
Oh? Oh, oh, oh.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (30:34):
Coming back into this present moment, taking a big deep
in hell and through your nose and releasing through your
nose and releasing your position in this moment. If it
(30:56):
feels good, you can bring your hands to prayer position
of the center of your heart and just hold your
awareness there, taking a vow forward. Now I must stay
the lighten me recognizes and honors the lighten you. Those
(31:17):
are the four soul questions. Spend some time with that
as able the next few days. I also recommend if
you feel called, making it a part of your daily practice.
It's an amazing meditation to deeply connect you while on
(31:37):
your journey and also as a beautiful refresher and moments
of transition. You know, we are always evolving, we are
always deepening our awareness. That is the intention, and so
being able to really connect and commit to that and
(31:57):
open to that and utilize these questions when you're in
those moments to say, you know, who am I now?
What am I becoming? What wants to be known to me?
M all right, that's it for this week. I will
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From grandmothers who whispered in their baby girl in to
fathers on dimly lit street corners instructing young soldiers to
always keep their eyes open. You be queen, You were fired,
You were passed through centuries on the hands of your daughters.
They called you wisdom. Proverbs on the backs of diamond
eyed school children who grew into hymnals recited by amethysts
(00:33):
holding urban philosophers who recited neighborhood commandments out of the
windows of restored Alchmedo chariots.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
To keep the.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Warmth in their blood, Be wise, be smart, being black,
Opal Brown courts bloodstone and prayer. Be every form of gem.
See king told, scribe, scribe told son, the son told wife,
wife told her daughter, and daughter told the answer. And
the ancestor has told me that you would come to
(01:04):
give wisdom. Thousands they said you would come.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Dropping Dropping Jim, Hey, Welcome back to another episode of
The Dropping Gem's podcast. I'm your host, Debbie Brown. This episode,
I want to dive into a little meditation. I've been
getting some beautiful feedback on the past few episodes, and
it's been really beautiful reading for those that have been
(01:29):
connecting to the meditations how much that that has allowed
you to deepen your practice. Meditation is, as many of
you know by now, just one of the most gorgeous,
powerful tools to being your heeled, whole, full self, your
(01:49):
most awakened self, and a deep passion of mine is
teaching meditation in a way that allows it to come
to life for us and allows us to connect to
a practice a lot faster. As we discussed in a
previous episode of the podcast Triggers and Meditation, there are
(02:12):
some barriers to being still and being quiet, even though
it seems like you know that would be simple, not
moving and not talking, but it's challenging and that's part
of how we build our practice. So today I wanted
to share something with you when I was first becoming
a meditation teacher, when I took a deeper leg of
(02:34):
study in my practice after practicing for a few years,
I really learned new depths of the beauty of being
able to get into the gap. And the gap is
that sweet space when we're meditating in between thoughts. So,
(02:55):
had one thought it completed, and before you moved to
the next one, there was probably a milli mili Mili
mili milliseecond in between, and that is the space of
pure potentiality where nothing has yet happened, but absolutely anything
else can. It is the highest form of our creation
(03:16):
is available in that sweet spot. And so some of
the beauty about cultivating a meditation practice is you get
to stretch that time that you're in the sweet spot.
So what may start as a millisecond, and even now
some days it's still a millisecond, you know, you might
(03:36):
find that you actually get a minute of that. Maybe
you're getting five minutes of it. I don't know. Maybe
one day you get hours of it. But that space,
that space of potential, that's where healing is birthed. That's
where healing is deepened. That's where healing occurs. And that's
(04:01):
also where your purpose occurs. That's where some of those
breakthrough thoughts come in about not just yourself and your life,
but the breakthrough thoughts of what you're here to grow,
what you're here to build, what you're here to transform,
Those awarenesses about the higher version of who you're called
(04:22):
to be with the actual roadmap to it or the
actual kind of mission marching orders that you're meant to pursue.
That's what's found in that sweet space of meditation. So, yes,
meditation is so gorgeous for nervous system regulation, it's so
amazing for our mental health, our emotional health, it's so
(04:49):
amazing for the calm you know that is so often
spoken to. The meditation is also incredible for the creativity,
for the way that it just kind of galvanizes you
towards your bigger dreams and gives you so much clarity
around those things, heightens your intuition, just it really activates you.
(05:09):
It turns you up, it turns you on. So I
wanted to guide a meditation today. That was part of
the fundamental teaching practice when I was learning to be
an educator and meditation and so, as I've shared many times,
I went through the gorgeous program that Chopra offers many many,
(05:30):
many years ago, and the choper Certification program, which is
part of Deepak Chopra is just incredible life's work and
life's study and life sharing. It was birthed around utilizing
your primordial sound. Now that's something we can get into
(05:52):
at a later time. But it's all about the calculation
of your birth time, birth location. A lot of things
you use in astrology and finding out the Sanskrit word
that best resonates with your individual soul and spirit based
on that information, and then you use that sacred word
(06:12):
silently to yourself as your mantra for your meditation practice.
And the importance of a mantra is especially as you're
learning to meditate. It becomes a really really powerful tool
for being able to release thought, to notice and have
an awareness when you are stuck in the thought, and
(06:34):
then be able to come back into the openness to
find the gap that we just discussed. So beautiful, beautiful, beautiful.
But as I was learning to teach in that program,
and something that I've done on stage so many times
as I've hosted retreats all over with Deepak is Deepak's
(06:59):
beautiful system of four Soul questions in Primordial Sound meditation.
And there are four questions that as we guide meditation,
we speak out as we are teaching people how to
come a little bit deeper into themselves. And so the
four Soul questions, I want to break them down for
(07:21):
us and give you a little more awareness around what's
happening when you're asking each of those questions, and then
we will have a meditation together where you can kind
of sink into that, really savor that. So this episode
is best listen to when you are not driving and
(07:42):
when you are not maybe operating any having machinery, or
doing anything that requires safety. I would highly recommend that
you spend maybe more than even the first lesson with
this episode. So maybe let this be a companion with
you in your practice for the next week or however
long you feel cold and really see where it begins
(08:05):
to guide you. All right, so let's first start this
conversation by centering ourselves. If it is possible for you
where you were at, I would like to invite you
to get a little more comfortable, to find an area
that you'd like to sit in, support your spine, keep
(08:29):
your belly soft, whatever feels comfortable for you. And now
let's just take a couple deep breaths in and out together.
Only this maybe three times, so just very casually. We
want to settle and kind of ground into the space
and into this moment. So I want to invite you
here with your eyes still open but soft. I want
(08:55):
to invite you to take it deep in hell in
through your nose and we'll hold it at the top
and releasing through your nose, in through your nose, and release,
(09:27):
and in through your nose and release. Now return to
a breath that just feels natural and nourishing for you.
Whatever pace feels good, that is allowing you to really
(09:51):
bring in some energy into your body and keep that
circulation moving. All right. So I want to walk through
the four soul questions and then I'm going to go
back and I'm going to speak about each individually for
a moment, and then we'll get into our meditation. So
in primordial sound meditation, the four soul questions are who
(10:15):
am I? What do I really want? What am I
grateful for? How can I serve? Who am I? What
do I really want? What am I grateful for? How
(10:37):
can I serve? So that first question, who am I?
The reason we invoke that question and why it can
be such a beautiful tool is who am I? But
without all the conditioned beliefs I have about myself? Who
(10:59):
am I? When I am? Not all the roles that
I'm playing in the world. But we're really asking with
that question who am I? We are inviting our soul
to come forward. We are inviting in an opportunity to
glimpse our higher self, our most authentic self, the version
of us that is whole, that is worthy, that is
(11:21):
in existence, even when we are not someone's friend, even
when we are not someone's relationship, someone's parents, someone's worker,
someone's boss, even when we are not whatever, it is
that the some of our personalities tells us we are.
Who am I? You know, one of the fundamental mantras
(11:46):
in meditation is I am. And when we say I am,
we don't follow that with an answer. So this is
the precursor to that I am. We are looking to
invite in the I am. And so as we ask
these questions, we are not actually looking to fill them
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with answers at all. We are asking the question as
an invitation and invocation and intention of what can possibly
come in that is not yet known to us, but
very often is a deep remembrance, so it feels eventually
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very soft to land into. So who am I? We
are inviting in mystery, We are inviting in layers, We
are inviting in facets. We are inviting, in a prismatic
experience into knowing ourselves. Who am I? There is so
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much to know, there is so much to remember in
that statement. So that's the first question. The next question
and primordial sound meditation is what do I really want?
What do I really want? I think a more maybe
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spiritual way of saying that is like, what are my desires?
The reason we are asking what do I really want?
Is because the truth is, most of us have no
idea really, right like, we are so filled with things
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happening in society, with being influenced. Good Lord, we're in
the midst of that right now, right the last ten years,
being told, being in a space where we are looking
to match energy or compare ourselves. Right Like, it's very
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it's very rare that we all naturally know what we
really want. The beauty is, that's what we're here to
find out because none of us know, but all of
us think everyone else knows. And when we invite in
that question what do I really want or what is
my deepest desire? We invite in healing, we invite in clarity,
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we invite in purpose, we invite in awareness, we invite
in the opportunity to expand and explore what do I
really want? On a surface level, it could be well,
I want a relationship, or I want this job, or
I want this to happen. I want to be seen
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like this, and then what's under that? Right? Because what
made that a desire for you? When we find out
the things that we're desiring, we can go a little
deeper and we get to look at why do I
desire that? Which sometimes on Earth's what unmet needs are
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present that may desire our attention. You know, it could
bring up things from your life's history that need to
be observed, witnessed, healed, transformed for all of the reasons
that are usually personal to each of us. And then
when we get to that layer, we get to get curious,
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what do I want? What do I need now that
I've landed in a healthy space? What do I need?
What does feel good when I'm not just looking at
life through a more surface view. What is a deeper need?
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What is a deeper desire? It helps us cultivate our healing.
It helps us cultivate our purpose because when we understand
what our needs are, we also get to ee understand
the opposites of that of what we have to give
as well, Right, like, what are the areas that we
are able to share ourselves more deeply because we're so aware?
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Question number three, what am I grateful for? What am
I grateful for? Gratitude is one of the most important
profound pieces of ourselves to cultivate and grow and enhance.
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Living a life of gratitude allows so many of the
things that come to us to feel even better because
we feel enough where we are. When we have a
heart of gratude, we're able to meet ourselves deeper. We're
really recognizing and honoring needs that we have. We're recognizing
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and honoring ways that we potentially showed up or opened
ourselves enough to receive. It's so important that we open
to receive so often, and I know many can relate
to this. You know, so often people are trying to
give us the best of what they're able to give us.
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And that doesn't necessarily mean it is what we think
we need. It doesn't necessarily mean it's what we give.
But everyone has their own way of giving. And sometimes
when it's not what we think we want, or it's
not reciprocal in the way that it's how we would
do it or give it, we don't recognize it, and
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there's a real opportunity miss there. We're not receiving something
that could be really beautiful to be on the receiving
end of not able to really see or honor the
person that's giving the giving, which can sometimes be a
feeling of an injury or a harm for them. And
that's not necessarily our responsibility. But showing up as the higher,
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softer version of ourselves for people in our lives is
it's important, you know, as long as our boundaries are
also protected, it's important. And so what am I grateful for?
You know, Let's get fundamental. Let's realize where we might
be missing opportunities to see beauty, grace, love and gratitude
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and things, you know, where are my needs met? Sometimes
I feel so deeply grateful for, you know, things you
may not take time to stop and see someone doing
something a little extra when you don't know them and
they absolutely don't have to and they're doing it just
because or just because it's the right thing to do,
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or because they had time to do it. You know,
being on there seeming in of some of those small
gratitudes is so beautiful. You know, even if I'm in
the car, I really try to acknowledge, Like if someone
lets me over, I raise my hand in my mirror
so they can see and say thank you for that,
you know, granted we're merging and we're in and out
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all day and night, but being able to just take
a moment that required something thank you. You know. The
more we can practice doing that, the more we're able
to see how abundant life actually can be for us.
And we also just energetically are creating an energy around
us that says we really like that, we like receiving
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things that feel good. And I've found just from my
personal experience and experiences of those I know, that allows
the universe to kind of program at a higher level
for us, you know, co create experiences that we're really
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responding to in a heartfelt way, and those experiences of gratitude,
it really creates a pathway for us to now be
attracting more things that will be grateful for. So gratitude
practice What am I grateful for now? The fourth question?
How can I serve? How can I serve? How can
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I serve? Service to all? Service and love? It is
why we are here. Being of service is your purpose.
That is my belief. That is what I live by,
That is what I believe for myself. Service is my purpose.
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That is why. It is less about what is my
job title? And it's more about how do I recognize
and observe my unique gifts so that I can connect
it to something that is of service for the greater
good to all. That is my purpose, and very often
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we add a little curiosity and creativity to that, and
we're able to have a purpose that can also be
the things that we do in life and in the world,
and that can you know, potentially earn us money or
get to a place where existing in our purpose, existing
as ourselves is how we can live and how we
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can meet our needs as well. So how can I serve?
We have to always be looking for how am I
meant to now share this? We are all conduits of
awakening for one another. We are all conduits of healing
for one another. That's the intention. It's not always executed
for each of us, but that is the intention, a
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path of service to all for the highest good. And
when we're all on that path, that means we're also
receiving service from others. So it doesn't feel like an imbalance.
Being of service is not being a martyr. Being of
service is not you in servitude and not receiving. Living
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a life of service is attuning to the divine flow
of why we're here to have this shared experience through
self actualization. But when we are in a space of
healthy service, serving through purpose, we are also receiving so
much that reciprocal flow, so much.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Wronging too.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
So those are the beautiful four soul questions, and now
let's test them out just a little bit. Okay, so
we will have a beautiful meditation here after listening, I
want to invite you now to readjust your body to
a level of comfort that feels supportive. Straight spine, soft belly,
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connect to your heart, connect to your breath, and now here,
gently close your eyes, and let's start by allowing your
body to come into an even more relaxed position. So
notice any tension in your body and release it. Maybe
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it's your jaw, your neck, your shoulders, drop them, release
that jaw, release your arms, release your stomach, your hips,
allow your legs and your knees and your calves to soften,
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and really experience yourself as taking root right now in
this grounded, present moment. Now notice your breath and your body,
the gentle rise and fall of your chest. It could
feel comfortable in this space to have your hands palms
facing up on the tops of your thighs or on
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the sides of you in a state of receiving, it
could feel good to maybe place the hand on your heart,
maybe one on your abdomen, either your solar plexus or
sacral so above or beneath your navel, and I will
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invoke now the four soul questions. And again we are
not looking to fill these questions with an answer. We
are asking them and releasing them. Taking a deep breath
here in and out. Who am I? Who am I?
Speaker 2 (26:00):
M m.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
M What do I really want? What do I really want?
Speaker 4 (26:45):
M m h m m m.
Speaker 5 (27:21):
M m.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
What am I grateful for? What am I grateful for?
H m.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
M h m hmm.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
How can I serve? How can I serve?
Speaker 5 (29:10):
Oh? Oh, oh, oh.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (30:34):
Coming back into this present moment, taking a big deep
in hell and through your nose and releasing through your
nose and releasing your position in this moment. If it
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feels good, you can bring your hands to prayer position
of the center of your heart and just hold your
awareness there, taking a vow forward. Now I must stay
the lighten me recognizes and honors the lighten you. Those
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are the four soul questions. Spend some time with that
as able the next few days. I also recommend if
you feel called, making it a part of your daily practice.
It's an amazing meditation to deeply connect you while on
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your journey and also as a beautiful refresher and moments
of transition. You know, we are always evolving, we are
always deepening our awareness. That is the intention, and so
being able to really connect and commit to that and
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open to that and utilize these questions when you're in
those moments to say, you know, who am I now?
What am I becoming? What wants to be known to me?
M all right, that's it for this week. I will
join you next week, next episode, and please share this
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episode with a friend. If there's anyone in your life
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