WEBVTT 1 00:00:14.320 --> 00:00:18.920 Hello, and welcome to Psychic Teachers. I'm your host Samantha Faye and I'm 2 00:00:19.000 --> 00:00:23.199 Dab Bowen, and today we're going to be discussing how to tell the difference 3 00:00:23.280 --> 00:00:28.199 between your imagination and your intuition. Now I don't know about you, Dab, 4 00:00:28.280 --> 00:00:32.759 but I used to think these two were very separate things, But now 5 00:00:32.880 --> 00:00:37.240 I'm not so sure. If we know that in order to manifest anything, 6 00:00:37.600 --> 00:00:42.479 we have to first think it into existence, then something very real is happening 7 00:00:42.640 --> 00:00:48.399 when we're just imagining. And yet we also know that much of intuition happens 8 00:00:48.479 --> 00:00:53.119 in the mind's eye. So is the mind's eye the same as imagination? 9 00:00:53.759 --> 00:00:59.320 And if intuition and imagination do indeed occur in the same liminal space, then 10 00:00:59.320 --> 00:01:03.280 how can we tell the difference between the two. This is what we're hoping 11 00:01:03.399 --> 00:01:07.719 to discuss today. What are your thoughts on that before we dive into some 12 00:01:07.840 --> 00:01:11.159 of our notes. Well, you know, later on in the podcast, 13 00:01:11.200 --> 00:01:15.599 I'll be talking about the notion of visualizing. Just as you're saying, we 14 00:01:15.840 --> 00:01:22.159 manifest into existence what we want to be, and some of the steps and 15 00:01:22.280 --> 00:01:27.439 processes to make that happen include being able to see or hear or feel, 16 00:01:27.560 --> 00:01:32.879 or use your senses in some way to bring something into being. And if 17 00:01:32.920 --> 00:01:36.799 that's not imagination, I don't know what is, right, So it can 18 00:01:36.920 --> 00:01:41.439 get complicated and kind of confusing, right, I mean the word itself. 19 00:01:41.480 --> 00:01:47.599 Imagination is fraught with so many complicated definitions in terms, and Neville Goodard's The 20 00:01:47.680 --> 00:01:53.040 Power of Imagination, he writes the word imagination has no status nor fixed significance. 21 00:01:53.480 --> 00:01:57.319 For example, we ask someone to use their imagination, meaning that the 22 00:01:57.400 --> 00:02:02.359 present outlook is too restricted and therefore not equal to the task. But in 23 00:02:02.400 --> 00:02:07.719 the next breath, we tell this person that their ideas are pure imagination, 24 00:02:07.120 --> 00:02:12.840 implying that their ideas are unsound. We speak of a jealous or a suspicious 25 00:02:12.840 --> 00:02:16.719 person as a victim of their imagination, meaning that this person's thoughts are untrue. 26 00:02:17.199 --> 00:02:22.280 A minute later, we pay someone the highest tribute by describing them as 27 00:02:22.360 --> 00:02:27.599 a person of imagination. Goddard goes on to say, even the dictionary is 28 00:02:27.639 --> 00:02:31.560 no help. It defines imagination as the picturing power or act of the mind, 29 00:02:32.080 --> 00:02:38.560 the constructive or creative principle if phantasm in irrational notion or belief, and 30 00:02:38.639 --> 00:02:46.759 finally, planning a mental construction ultimately Goddard believes that imagination is the gateway of 31 00:02:46.879 --> 00:02:50.960 reality. I really like that phrase, the gateway of reality. You know, 32 00:02:51.000 --> 00:02:55.439 there's a Chinese proverb that says thought is the ancestor of action, and 33 00:02:55.520 --> 00:03:01.400 I've always really liked that too, because everything does to begin with our thoughts, 34 00:03:01.479 --> 00:03:06.800 and really, what are our thoughts other than things that are happening in 35 00:03:06.840 --> 00:03:10.560 our mind, in our mind's eye, in our imagination. I can't imagine 36 00:03:10.840 --> 00:03:16.319 a pardon the bun here. I can't imagine not having imagination. You know, 37 00:03:16.360 --> 00:03:21.960 when I was a little girl, I had imaginary friends. I had 38 00:03:22.000 --> 00:03:27.120 an imaginary horse, and they were as real to me as you are, 39 00:03:27.919 --> 00:03:31.599 to the point that my mother never quite knew what was quote true and what 40 00:03:31.879 --> 00:03:38.039 was not in my life. And there were days that I would go out 41 00:03:38.080 --> 00:03:40.520 for a walk in our neighborhood and I was very little, I mean under 42 00:03:40.560 --> 00:03:45.240 five, before school, and I would come home with bouquets of flowers, 43 00:03:45.800 --> 00:03:49.639 and she thought I was stealing them from neighbor's yards. And I would say, 44 00:03:50.039 --> 00:03:53.080 Miss Fanny gave them to me, and she thought I had made miss 45 00:03:53.080 --> 00:03:57.680 Fanny up. Well, Miss Fanny was very real. It was a lovely, 46 00:03:57.719 --> 00:04:00.199 elderly neighbor who lived down the way, who really did send flowers home 47 00:04:00.199 --> 00:04:03.439 to my mom through me. But Mama didn't know what was true with what 48 00:04:03.599 --> 00:04:06.240 was not, and I'm not sure that I did either, So there you 49 00:04:06.319 --> 00:04:12.560 go. Well, I had a similar problem with imagination and intuition because when 50 00:04:12.560 --> 00:04:15.879 I was a kid, my parents make such fun of me because they said 51 00:04:15.919 --> 00:04:19.839 I started every sentence with imagine if you know, like we'd be driving and 52 00:04:19.879 --> 00:04:24.720 I'd say, imagine if you saw a giant on top of that mountain over 53 00:04:24.759 --> 00:04:29.040 there, Like I was constantly saying things like that. But then when I 54 00:04:29.079 --> 00:04:32.279 remember one day I ran downstairs to the playroom and I saw a woman and 55 00:04:32.360 --> 00:04:36.600 she was sitting on this table against the window. She was dressed in this 56 00:04:36.720 --> 00:04:41.800 beautiful, beautiful gown, but I could see the table and the window in 57 00:04:41.879 --> 00:04:46.680 my backyard through her and through the dress, and she looked at me and 58 00:04:46.759 --> 00:04:50.319 smiled. She was very kind and beautiful, but I was terrified, and 59 00:04:50.360 --> 00:04:55.399 I remember running up the stairs screaming, there's like, oh, stay in 60 00:04:55.439 --> 00:04:58.920 our house. And I remember my mom saying, oh, honey, you 61 00:04:59.000 --> 00:05:02.519 and your imagination. So for me, it was always very very tricky, 62 00:05:02.600 --> 00:05:08.720 because yeah, I did have this very vivid imagination. However, Comma, 63 00:05:08.839 --> 00:05:12.600 I also had, you know, this very strong intuition, and I knew. 64 00:05:13.160 --> 00:05:15.319 I knew as a kid that what I was seeing was real, and 65 00:05:15.360 --> 00:05:20.199 I knew the difference between my imagination and my intuition. And yet very often 66 00:05:20.600 --> 00:05:27.600 the two are put together, or were told intuition is imagination or vice versa. 67 00:05:27.639 --> 00:05:30.800 And I think as especially if you're a budding intuitive and you're just learning 68 00:05:30.839 --> 00:05:34.639 to trust your intuition, and you get a thought or an idea or a 69 00:05:34.680 --> 00:05:39.399 picture in your mind's eye, you might think, well, is that my 70 00:05:39.480 --> 00:05:44.560 imagination, my making that up? Or is that my intuition? And it 71 00:05:44.560 --> 00:05:47.480 can be really, really hard. Well, am, but if you go 72 00:05:47.519 --> 00:05:51.800 back to the story you just told, you knew you didn't imagine that woman, 73 00:05:51.839 --> 00:05:56.399 You knew she was really there. Yes, Well, the same was 74 00:05:56.439 --> 00:06:00.240 true with me and my spirit God. I knew he was real. Mama 75 00:06:00.279 --> 00:06:02.399 thought I was making him up. He is really there. He still is 76 00:06:02.439 --> 00:06:06.639 really there. Okay, But let's say you get this thought, there's just 77 00:06:06.720 --> 00:06:14.720 this feeling like I remember before COVID that was March, and I remember, 78 00:06:15.079 --> 00:06:18.879 starting in January, every time I would meditate, I kept hearing this phrase. 79 00:06:19.439 --> 00:06:25.399 You know, that old Bradberry title something Wicked this Way Comes. Yes, 80 00:06:25.759 --> 00:06:28.600 I kept hearing that. Every time I would meditate, I would I 81 00:06:28.600 --> 00:06:30.720 don't know, that title would just drop in my head and I remember talking 82 00:06:31.120 --> 00:06:33.800 to my friend Denise about it and I was like, I don't know what 83 00:06:33.839 --> 00:06:36.560 that means, and she was like, well, you know, try to 84 00:06:36.680 --> 00:06:41.879 explore and go deeper and is it something bad coming to you? Is it 85 00:06:41.920 --> 00:06:44.600 something bad coming to the world? And I was like, no, it 86 00:06:44.639 --> 00:06:48.399 feels more generalized, like you know everywhere something wicked this way comes. And 87 00:06:48.560 --> 00:06:54.399 I remember when the lockdowns happened, that message stopped. But for those few 88 00:06:54.439 --> 00:06:59.959 months, I didn't know was that my imagination was that intuition and I didn't 89 00:07:00.000 --> 00:07:02.279 know what to do with it. Really, does that ever happen to you? 90 00:07:02.600 --> 00:07:08.040 Yes, it does happen to me. It happens to me with song 91 00:07:08.160 --> 00:07:15.199 lyrics being predictive of something coming their mornings that I wake up with lyrics in 92 00:07:15.319 --> 00:07:18.839 my head. I do that most mornings, but sometimes when they repeat themselves 93 00:07:18.959 --> 00:07:23.519 day after day, I know that that's some kind of a message that my 94 00:07:23.560 --> 00:07:27.959 imagination, my subconscious is trying to get through to me, and I do 95 00:07:28.000 --> 00:07:30.319 it often with song lyrics I've learned to trust it. I have to, 96 00:07:30.600 --> 00:07:35.839 but I do understand people who have a hard time with it. We got 97 00:07:35.879 --> 00:07:41.600 an email from a listener and she's a young mom and she has young kids, 98 00:07:42.000 --> 00:07:45.360 and she said she often gets this feeling that something bad is going to 99 00:07:45.439 --> 00:07:47.319 happen to one of her kids. And she said, you know, how 100 00:07:47.319 --> 00:07:53.720 do I tell the difference between is this my imagination just mom worry or is 101 00:07:53.759 --> 00:07:59.040 this my intuition? And I totally understand that, because sometimes you just worry 102 00:07:59.040 --> 00:08:01.120 on something and it's like a cold store, like you just can't stop, 103 00:08:01.199 --> 00:08:03.519 you know, bothering it, and then you wonder, like, oh, 104 00:08:03.560 --> 00:08:07.639 am I gonna make this happen if I keep thinking about it? And so 105 00:08:07.720 --> 00:08:11.959 one thing I told her is that intuition is never scary, right Like, 106 00:08:11.079 --> 00:08:15.399 even though I kept hearing that something wicked this way comes, I wasn't like 107 00:08:15.560 --> 00:08:18.160 terrified or scared. I just knew it was kind of like a warning, 108 00:08:18.319 --> 00:08:22.360 because when my intuition speaks to me, there's really not a lot of emotion 109 00:08:22.480 --> 00:08:28.639 with it. It's just very factual and it's kind of dropped in and it's 110 00:08:28.759 --> 00:08:33.840 repetitive and it doesn't change. And I remember asking her, does the message 111 00:08:33.919 --> 00:08:35.519 change, and she said sometimes it does. Like sometimes she'll have a feeling 112 00:08:35.559 --> 00:08:37.480 like, oh, something's gonna happen to one of her kids, and then 113 00:08:37.480 --> 00:08:41.200 it's another kid. That lets you know, that's your imagination. If it's 114 00:08:41.279 --> 00:08:45.919 jumping around, flitting around, that's just worry. Well, let's look at 115 00:08:45.919 --> 00:08:50.879 the difference. As you have just explained to us some of the definitions and 116 00:08:50.960 --> 00:08:54.000 ways of looking at the word imagination. Take us now into looking at intuition. 117 00:08:54.279 --> 00:08:58.159 Well, the word intuition means to intuit, feel, and sense things, 118 00:08:58.440 --> 00:09:05.679 and the Dicky defines intuition as the ability to understand something immediately without conscious 119 00:09:05.720 --> 00:09:11.600 reasoning. So think about that word immediately, because this is how intuition works. 120 00:09:11.960 --> 00:09:16.120 It's an instant knowing, an instant feeling, or an instant sensation, 121 00:09:16.519 --> 00:09:22.600 where you know or feel something to be true without understanding how you know or 122 00:09:22.679 --> 00:09:28.200 feel this way, whereas imagination takes more time you have to think about something, 123 00:09:28.240 --> 00:09:31.600 build a picture, hold it in your mind's eye. Yet both imagination 124 00:09:31.679 --> 00:09:37.799 and intuition happen in the right brain, the creative side. They also feel 125 00:09:37.840 --> 00:09:41.799 the same. When you're imagining or intuiting, you feel as though you're in 126 00:09:41.840 --> 00:09:46.320 the flow in the zone, and this is why it can be really confusing 127 00:09:46.360 --> 00:09:50.759 to discern the difference between the two. Take this example from a letter the 128 00:09:50.799 --> 00:09:54.399 famous eighteenth century mystic painter and poet William Blake wrote to his friend. When 129 00:09:54.399 --> 00:09:58.960 the friend was grieving the loss of a family member, he consoled him in 130 00:09:58.000 --> 00:10:03.960 a letter by sharing his his own experiences after his brother's death. He wrote, 131 00:10:03.039 --> 00:10:07.879 I know that our deceased friends are more really with us than when they 132 00:10:07.879 --> 00:10:13.080 were apparent to our mortal part. Thirteen years ago I lost my brother, 133 00:10:13.559 --> 00:10:18.039 and with his spirit I conversed daily and hourly, and see him and my 134 00:10:18.159 --> 00:10:24.519 remembrance in the region of my imagination. I hear his advice, and even 135 00:10:24.600 --> 00:10:28.120 now right from his dictate, he talks to his brother every day in the 136 00:10:28.159 --> 00:10:33.679 region of his imagination. And yet I want to point out that William Blake 137 00:10:33.799 --> 00:10:39.679 had this really powerful dream when his deceased brother visited him, and it was 138 00:10:39.720 --> 00:10:41.320 at a time when Blake and his wife were really struggling. He had a 139 00:10:41.320 --> 00:10:45.840 printing business and trying to be an artist and poet wasn't working, and his 140 00:10:46.000 --> 00:10:52.320 brother in this dream showed him a way to make cheaper copies of the printings 141 00:10:52.360 --> 00:10:56.000 that he was trying to do to support his artwork, and Blake said he 142 00:10:56.120 --> 00:10:58.519 never could have come up with that idea on his own. It came from 143 00:10:58.519 --> 00:11:01.879 his brother. Did it come from brother? Did it come from his imagination? 144 00:11:01.919 --> 00:11:03.720 Did it come from the collective unconscious? I don't know. I think 145 00:11:03.720 --> 00:11:07.000 it came from his brother. What do you think? I absolutely do. 146 00:11:07.440 --> 00:11:13.399 He also said, the world of imagination is the world of eternity. I 147 00:11:13.519 --> 00:11:16.720 love that idea. It's true. In our imagination, everything is eternal, 148 00:11:16.799 --> 00:11:24.279 everything is now, and we can tap that creative space not only to enhance 149 00:11:24.320 --> 00:11:28.120 our intuition, but also to enhance our manifesting capacities. Nothing really begins and 150 00:11:28.200 --> 00:11:33.000 nothing really is exactly. Napoleon Hill, author of the best selling books such 151 00:11:33.039 --> 00:11:37.960 as Think and Grow Rich, often described his technique of consulting the Invisible Council. 152 00:11:39.840 --> 00:11:43.639 He chose nine deceased men that he greatly admired, and every night, 153 00:11:43.720 --> 00:11:46.759 when he was falling asleep, he would just imagine talking with these men to 154 00:11:46.840 --> 00:11:52.000 seek their advice and input. He called these visualization techniques his nightly meetings, 155 00:11:52.080 --> 00:11:56.360 and he would not write a word or prepare a speech without first consulting this 156 00:11:56.480 --> 00:12:01.279 group. It was so successful that Napoe and Hill became afraid he was indulging 157 00:12:01.360 --> 00:12:05.279 his imagination too much, so he put a stop to his nightly meetings. 158 00:12:05.960 --> 00:12:09.840 But soon after that, he dreamt that President Lincoln visited him in a dream 159 00:12:11.279 --> 00:12:15.759 and told him to restart the nightly meetings because they missed them and they had 160 00:12:15.799 --> 00:12:20.279 important work to do together. Navoleon did just that and went on depend over 161 00:12:20.360 --> 00:12:24.480 a dozen best selling books that are still in print today. So what's happening 162 00:12:24.480 --> 00:12:31.480 here. Are Blake and Hill confusing imagination with intuition or vice versa, or 163 00:12:31.600 --> 00:12:33.879 is there a bridge between the two. I think there's a bridge between the 164 00:12:33.919 --> 00:12:39.720 two personally, I do. And I love this suggestion that Napoleon Hill gives 165 00:12:39.799 --> 00:12:46.000 us about creating that dream team. And I've seen other writers since then build 166 00:12:46.080 --> 00:12:50.720 on his idea of doing that, other writers, other folks who want to 167 00:12:50.759 --> 00:12:54.080 manifest whatever. And I think that's a great thing for our listeners to think 168 00:12:54.120 --> 00:12:58.600 about, is that you don't have to do this alone when you're looking. 169 00:12:58.600 --> 00:13:01.399 And we're going to talk more about this later as we talk about manifesting in 170 00:13:01.440 --> 00:13:05.759 other ways. But I think it's a great idea to build that dream team 171 00:13:05.840 --> 00:13:09.879 and to work with both imagination and intuition well. In dream Work for the 172 00:13:09.960 --> 00:13:13.159 Soul, Rosemary Ellen Guiley writes, the land of dreams is part of the 173 00:13:13.240 --> 00:13:20.039 mundus imagionalists or imaginal world, a real place recognized by cultures around the world 174 00:13:20.120 --> 00:13:26.759 since ancient times. We can access this liminal world through petition, meditation, 175 00:13:26.919 --> 00:13:31.159 and dreams. I think the main difference is this, When we use our 176 00:13:31.200 --> 00:13:35.159 imagination, we are in charge of the visualization, sensations, and pictures. 177 00:13:35.200 --> 00:13:39.320 We are the driver, the cruise director of our imagination. When we use 178 00:13:39.360 --> 00:13:43.960 our intuition, the universe, the collective conscious, our guides, ancestors, 179 00:13:43.960 --> 00:13:48.840 and angels are driving the bus. So does that make sense to like, 180 00:13:48.080 --> 00:13:54.200 when you're imagining something, you are the movie director, the costume designer, 181 00:13:54.240 --> 00:13:56.440 the producer, the actor and actress. You are the one who's doing all 182 00:13:56.480 --> 00:14:03.200 of the work. But when into wition is in charge, it's just comes 183 00:14:03.200 --> 00:14:05.600 to you. It's like a download, It's just there without you soliciting it. 184 00:14:07.039 --> 00:14:09.159 Let me play with that a minute, Amatha, because I hear what 185 00:14:09.200 --> 00:14:13.960 you're saying. I understand the intent of what you just said. But you 186 00:14:13.960 --> 00:14:16.840 know me, I can be kind of a control freak about things, and 187 00:14:16.960 --> 00:14:22.320 so so the thought that that that my intuition comes to me from somewhere else, 188 00:14:22.919 --> 00:14:28.360 that I don't have some kind of internal connection to it, Like, 189 00:14:28.600 --> 00:14:31.200 for example, when I think of intuition, I think of work from the 190 00:14:31.240 --> 00:14:37.240 solar plexus chakra. So I think of that as being me and my understanding 191 00:14:37.240 --> 00:14:43.279 and ability to participate in the intuitive process in addition to it being downloaded from 192 00:14:43.320 --> 00:14:48.279 somewhere else. That makes to me when you're doing intuitive work. I'm talking 193 00:14:48.320 --> 00:14:54.480 about when you've already awakened your intuition and you're learning to work with it and 194 00:14:54.519 --> 00:15:00.879 trust it, and you're driving down the road, or you're from one meeting 195 00:15:00.919 --> 00:15:05.200 to the next, or you're sitting at your office answering fifty five emails and 196 00:15:05.279 --> 00:15:11.279 you keep getting this unsolicited thought in your head. Call my friend Hillary, 197 00:15:11.320 --> 00:15:13.480 I need to call Hillary. Call Hillary. Call Hillary. And you finally 198 00:15:13.519 --> 00:15:16.399 find some time in your day to call Hillary, and she says, oh 199 00:15:16.440 --> 00:15:20.279 my gosh, I'm so glad you called. I'm having the worst day, 200 00:15:20.799 --> 00:15:22.679 A B and C happened. I've been meaning to reach out to you. 201 00:15:22.799 --> 00:15:26.360 I just need to process this and talk about it. What do you think 202 00:15:26.840 --> 00:15:31.200 you were feeling that need of your friend who really needed someone to talk to. 203 00:15:31.120 --> 00:15:37.559 You weren't soliciting that, you weren't actually focusing on your solar plexus chakra 204 00:15:37.759 --> 00:15:41.159 or your throat chakra. To hear Claire audiently, it just came to you. 205 00:15:41.840 --> 00:15:45.240 I hear what you're saying. I'm not sure I agree with you, 206 00:15:45.279 --> 00:15:48.159 but I hear what you're saying. You don't agree with me. Haven't you 207 00:15:48.200 --> 00:15:52.240 ever had a thought or idea pop into your head, You follow it and 208 00:15:52.279 --> 00:15:56.840 it ends up being exactly what you needed to do? Of course, what 209 00:15:56.000 --> 00:16:00.360 do you saw that? I'm not only sure it comes from external source, 210 00:16:03.960 --> 00:16:10.279 it always comes from deb No, I didn't say that, dope, what 211 00:16:10.399 --> 00:16:12.879 words. What I said was, I'm not sure it always comes from an 212 00:16:12.879 --> 00:16:17.840 external source. No, I agree with that. I mean, sometimes it 213 00:16:17.919 --> 00:16:22.279 is an internal source. But I think too. I remember when my friend 214 00:16:22.279 --> 00:16:26.639 George passed and he was telling me that, you know, he's working on 215 00:16:26.759 --> 00:16:33.919 music and composing and they had to find the right open minded, creative person 216 00:16:34.000 --> 00:16:40.039 who was receptive to the compositions they were working at on to drop it in 217 00:16:40.679 --> 00:16:44.559 if that makes sense, and did you? Oh? He did? Yeah, 218 00:16:44.600 --> 00:16:47.360 But I feel like that's how it is with m Going back to my 219 00:16:47.399 --> 00:16:52.159 Bradberry reference. He has that wonderful essay called Inviting the Muse or Invoking the 220 00:16:52.240 --> 00:16:56.360 Muse, and he talks about how he thinks there are creatives on the other 221 00:16:56.360 --> 00:16:59.960 side, or muses on the mountains. However you want to look at it, 222 00:17:00.240 --> 00:17:03.879 who come up with all these wonderful ideas and they look for people who 223 00:17:03.960 --> 00:17:08.680 are uniquely receptive to that idea and they drop it in. Like if you're 224 00:17:08.680 --> 00:17:11.720 on the other side, deb and you want to write a book, and 225 00:17:11.799 --> 00:17:15.920 you have this idea for this wonderful, wonderful Hallmarky romance, which I know 226 00:17:17.079 --> 00:17:18.839 you would never write, but just go with me here, and you want 227 00:17:18.839 --> 00:17:22.640 to drop it into someone, would you drop it into Stephen King's head? 228 00:17:22.799 --> 00:17:26.720 No, No, you'd have to find someone who is into that type of 229 00:17:26.759 --> 00:17:30.319 Hallmarky romance and drop it into their head. That's what I mean about an 230 00:17:30.319 --> 00:17:34.640 external source. Okay, all right, for sake of for sake of I'm 231 00:17:34.720 --> 00:17:38.279 here, I'll go with you here, go ahead, Okay. Well, 232 00:17:38.480 --> 00:17:45.279 I found when I was doing some research on the difference between intuition and imagination, 233 00:17:45.799 --> 00:17:48.000 there's a website called the Sage method dot com, and she has an 234 00:17:48.000 --> 00:17:55.480 exercise on there to help you discern the difference between your imagination and your intuition. 235 00:17:56.519 --> 00:18:00.160 She says a simple practice of acknowledging the information that comes through. You 236 00:18:00.240 --> 00:18:06.359 can try erasing it, wiping it away, and then waiting so you kind 237 00:18:06.359 --> 00:18:08.680 of you get the information and then you try to like just delete it. 238 00:18:10.000 --> 00:18:14.200 She says, follow these three steps. When something pops into your head and 239 00:18:14.279 --> 00:18:18.240 you're unsure if it was your imagination intuition, bring it back to the forefront 240 00:18:18.240 --> 00:18:23.359 of your mind by recreating it, and spend ten seconds intently focusing on it. 241 00:18:23.680 --> 00:18:27.480 After ten seconds, wipe it away, erase it from your mind like 242 00:18:27.519 --> 00:18:33.119 you're using an eraser on a chalkboard, and then finally spend the next ten 243 00:18:33.160 --> 00:18:37.480 seconds focusing your effort on not recreating it in your mind. Focus only on 244 00:18:37.519 --> 00:18:41.559 holding your mind still now. She says, if you were able to easily 245 00:18:41.599 --> 00:18:47.119 recreate it in step one and it did not come back to you after you 246 00:18:47.160 --> 00:18:51.680 erased it in step three, then it's your imagination. If you struggle to 247 00:18:51.759 --> 00:18:55.680 recreate it in step one and it came back to you after you erased it 248 00:18:55.680 --> 00:19:00.279 in step three, then it's your intuition. And I think that's interesting because 249 00:19:00.319 --> 00:19:03.960 those intuitive messages that do pop in. They are often very strong, and 250 00:19:04.000 --> 00:19:07.519 they're repetitive, and they don't go away, and like I said before, 251 00:19:07.559 --> 00:19:12.559 they don't change. She says. In this practice, you are slowing down 252 00:19:12.640 --> 00:19:18.200 that split second of creation and paying closer attention. You are standing there saying, 253 00:19:18.240 --> 00:19:22.359 Okay, let's replay this and see if this time it's easier to recreate 254 00:19:22.400 --> 00:19:26.799 it meaning imagine it, or witness it, meaning it's coming from your intuition. 255 00:19:27.960 --> 00:19:30.880 This quick practice, she says, when done again and again, will 256 00:19:30.920 --> 00:19:36.960 produce a few results. You will start to feel what creating something with your 257 00:19:37.000 --> 00:19:42.920 imagination feels like. It will become easier to feel the witnessing action of intuition. 258 00:19:44.640 --> 00:19:47.799 You will be able to delineate more and more between the two feelings, 259 00:19:48.319 --> 00:19:52.000 and in the future, when something pops into your head, you'll finally know 260 00:19:52.039 --> 00:19:56.799 if it was intuition or imagination. So instead of sitting in frustration of not 261 00:19:56.920 --> 00:20:00.559 knowing if you made something up or not, you start to see your imagination 262 00:20:00.119 --> 00:20:07.079 as a process of creating and your intuition as a process of witnessing. Once 263 00:20:07.119 --> 00:20:11.759 you do, you'll be more able to rely on your intuition and feel more 264 00:20:11.759 --> 00:20:18.079 confident that you didn't make something up. I like that differentation of creating and 265 00:20:18.160 --> 00:20:22.799 witnessing. That makes a lot of sense. Well it does. I think 266 00:20:22.799 --> 00:20:26.000 that's an interesting thing to try. Have you tried that. I have, 267 00:20:26.160 --> 00:20:32.039 and it is kind of confusing to erase it away and then do that that 268 00:20:32.079 --> 00:20:34.960 step of calming your mind down. And I have noticed that when it is 269 00:20:36.000 --> 00:20:38.559 intuition, it's just there, like no matter what you do, it's there. 270 00:20:38.599 --> 00:20:42.759 It's not going away, whereas with imagination you might struggle to recreate the 271 00:20:42.759 --> 00:20:48.079 exact image or the exact words. Really does help you delineate between creating and 272 00:20:48.119 --> 00:20:52.279 witnessing. And I think that calming your mind down helps a lot too, 273 00:20:52.440 --> 00:20:57.480 if you're having those anxious imagination thoughts that are more from a place of worry 274 00:20:57.920 --> 00:21:02.680 than intuition or even imagination. I think it's an interesting thing to try. 275 00:21:02.720 --> 00:21:06.960 I'll try it and see what happens. Let's take a quick break and talk 276 00:21:07.000 --> 00:21:08.880 about some things we have coming up, and then when we get back deb 277 00:21:08.920 --> 00:21:14.559 you'll share with us some techniques for creative visualization. But before we do that, 278 00:21:14.599 --> 00:21:18.119 I just want to let everyone know that I have a really exciting class 279 00:21:18.160 --> 00:21:21.000 coming up at the end of April. If you're looking to dive into your 280 00:21:21.039 --> 00:21:25.119 intuition by learning more about psychic tools. I hope you check out my upcoming 281 00:21:25.119 --> 00:21:29.039 webinar where I'm going to teach everyone how to work with psychometry and pendulums to 282 00:21:29.119 --> 00:21:33.880 enhance your intuition. The classes taught live over Zoom on April twentieth from seven 283 00:21:33.920 --> 00:21:37.759 to eight thirty pm Eastern, but it will be recorded an email to you 284 00:21:37.799 --> 00:21:41.160 the next day, so if you can't make it live, no worries. 285 00:21:41.759 --> 00:21:45.880 Also, don't forget I have autograph copies of my book The Awake Dreamer available 286 00:21:45.920 --> 00:21:48.880 on my website and if you sign up for my newsletter, the theme this 287 00:21:48.920 --> 00:21:53.240 month is Okay You're intuitive? Now what all of that? And more? 288 00:21:53.240 --> 00:21:57.400 It can be found at Samantha Fay dot com. How about you, deb 289 00:21:57.920 --> 00:22:03.000 Samantha, I'm so decided to tell folks. First of all, a huge 290 00:22:03.039 --> 00:22:08.000 thank you to all of our listeners who have read my newest creative nonfiction piece 291 00:22:08.160 --> 00:22:15.119 in Salvation South Literary Magazine. It's called a Talisman for Poseidon. Of course, 292 00:22:15.160 --> 00:22:18.279 that you all have asked me for a long time to teach is coming 293 00:22:18.400 --> 00:22:23.599 in May, and that is a course on working with arrow in terms of 294 00:22:23.599 --> 00:22:30.559 symbolism and art types not as a divination tool, so watch my newsletter and 295 00:22:30.640 --> 00:22:33.960 website for that. You can get all of this information in details and so 296 00:22:34.039 --> 00:22:41.519 much more on my website debboin dot com. Okay, let's get back to 297 00:22:41.599 --> 00:22:45.279 the show. Deb Do you want to talk to us about using our imagination 298 00:22:45.400 --> 00:22:52.440 to help us manifest? Absolutely? Shack Gawaine, who was just absolutely a 299 00:22:52.519 --> 00:23:00.559 brilliant writer and metaphysician back in nineteen seventy eight, wrote a groundbreaking book titled 300 00:23:00.039 --> 00:23:07.200 Creative Visualization. So this idea, the notion of quotes seeing something into existence 301 00:23:07.559 --> 00:23:11.440 comes from her, who is the mother of the concept. Basically, this 302 00:23:11.559 --> 00:23:18.920 idea uses mental imagery and affirmations to bring about positive changes in your life. 303 00:23:18.279 --> 00:23:25.640 This book paved the way for the use of visualization in sports, in business, 304 00:23:26.039 --> 00:23:33.119 the arts, health care, almost everywhere in using meditations, exercises such 305 00:23:33.160 --> 00:23:37.720 as the one Samantha mentioned earlier, and of course of visualization, you can 306 00:23:37.759 --> 00:23:41.960 achieve what you want in life, said Shaky. You can change habits, 307 00:23:41.200 --> 00:23:47.480 you can change patterns, improve self esteem, meet career goals, become more 308 00:23:47.519 --> 00:23:52.680 creative, and so much more. According to her work. So, for 309 00:23:52.720 --> 00:23:57.680 example, scientists have shown that the brain processes a day dream the way it 310 00:23:57.720 --> 00:24:03.119 does a memory. This means that when you daydream, your subconscious is storing 311 00:24:03.200 --> 00:24:07.920 this as a memory a fact. Once you get an idea or a belief 312 00:24:07.960 --> 00:24:12.880 into your subconscious, you can bring your goals from the dream state into real 313 00:24:12.960 --> 00:24:19.200 time. So one of the ways that this creative visualization began to work and 314 00:24:19.279 --> 00:24:27.119 manifest itself was in sports, where athletes would go into a daydream kind of 315 00:24:27.640 --> 00:24:36.000 liminal kind of space and see themselves running at a certain speed or doing whatever 316 00:24:36.039 --> 00:24:42.440 the sport was they needed to do, so that they truly embodied that dream 317 00:24:42.519 --> 00:24:49.279 into a physical reality in terms of muscle memory, so that later they were 318 00:24:49.319 --> 00:24:55.039 able to actually act out what they had been dreaming about. When the brain 319 00:24:55.160 --> 00:25:00.559 is allowed to freely daydream, it activates an area of the brain called the 320 00:25:00.599 --> 00:25:07.559 default mode network or d m N. What I even consciously aware of this 321 00:25:07.680 --> 00:25:12.480 activation happening. We can't control when the DMN is activated, but we can 322 00:25:12.599 --> 00:25:19.039 control the thoughts and the daydreams. We have that program our d N with 323 00:25:19.160 --> 00:25:25.440 positive images and goals. We're working on science writer and I'm not sure I'm 324 00:25:25.440 --> 00:25:32.200 pronouncing his name correct, Josie Gallia says, says quote daydreams are an inner 325 00:25:32.200 --> 00:25:37.480 world where we can rehearse the future. I lost that idea of rehearsing our 326 00:25:37.559 --> 00:25:41.640 future because, like you were saying, with the sports study, not only 327 00:25:41.680 --> 00:25:48.000 did they show that that helped them have a better run or whatever their athletic 328 00:25:48.319 --> 00:25:55.480 choice was, but their actual muscles fired when they were just imagining going through 329 00:25:55.599 --> 00:26:00.079 their their racecourse, which is absolutely intriguing. And so if we can and 330 00:26:00.279 --> 00:26:03.839 take a hold of our imagination through our day dreams, we can rehearse the 331 00:26:03.880 --> 00:26:08.519 future for a better or more positive outcome. Because something I've talked about a 332 00:26:08.519 --> 00:26:12.400 lot on this show, and it's something I'm really fascinated by, is this 333 00:26:12.480 --> 00:26:15.960 idea that we're manifesting all the time and we're not aware of it. We're 334 00:26:17.000 --> 00:26:22.519 manifesting positively and negatively. And we've got to take control of our thoughts more 335 00:26:22.519 --> 00:26:25.240 and more and more and more. One of my friends, her mom was 336 00:26:25.240 --> 00:26:30.319 in a pretty bad car accident and she's okay, thankfully. The car is 337 00:26:30.319 --> 00:26:33.519 totaled, but she's okay and that's what matters, and no one else was 338 00:26:33.599 --> 00:26:36.200 hurt. But she said to me, she said, you know, my 339 00:26:36.279 --> 00:26:37.839 mom has been saying for a year, I need a new car, but 340 00:26:37.920 --> 00:26:41.680 I can't really afford one. And she's been saying it over and over and 341 00:26:41.720 --> 00:26:45.920 over again, and she said, what if she manifested this as a way, 342 00:26:45.920 --> 00:26:48.680 because now the insurance is going to pay for a new car? What 343 00:26:48.759 --> 00:26:53.480 do you think about that? I think that's exactly what happened. It's kind 344 00:26:53.480 --> 00:26:56.720 of scary to think about, though, isn't it. It is? You 345 00:26:56.839 --> 00:27:03.799 know, our words have power. I thought of our I so believe that 346 00:27:03.920 --> 00:27:11.079 we can manifest into being that which we think. I truly believe that. 347 00:27:11.079 --> 00:27:15.400 I know. I have learned over the years that I feel like I have 348 00:27:15.440 --> 00:27:19.680 to be very careful with what I say because it will come into fruition if 349 00:27:19.680 --> 00:27:25.920 I'm not Yeah, exactly, which is why affirmations can be helpful, but 350 00:27:26.079 --> 00:27:32.279 also just taking time throughout your day to really focus on some positive daydreams. 351 00:27:32.759 --> 00:27:37.039 This default mode network or DMN, it's where we get our sense of self. 352 00:27:37.759 --> 00:27:41.359 How else can we become a co creator with the universe if we don't 353 00:27:41.359 --> 00:27:49.400 first understand ourselves as the source. Psychologist Susan Nolan Hoaxma define daydreaming as imagining 354 00:27:49.480 --> 00:27:56.160 situations in the future that are positive in tone. What you imagine most frequently 355 00:27:56.799 --> 00:28:02.400 is what you create we're manifesting all the time. The only problem is that 356 00:28:02.440 --> 00:28:04.359 many of us are so caught up with worries and fears that this is what 357 00:28:04.359 --> 00:28:10.880 we manifest rather than the positive life we're striving for. And so you must 358 00:28:10.960 --> 00:28:15.720 learn to harness this power with positive images and emotions or your life will continue 359 00:28:15.720 --> 00:28:22.480 to be a rollercoaster of positive and negative experiences. And I think deb this 360 00:28:22.599 --> 00:28:26.480 is where fake it till you make it does come into play, because a 361 00:28:26.519 --> 00:28:30.119 lot of times you'll be in a situation you're worried about it, You're fretting 362 00:28:30.119 --> 00:28:33.079 over something and I can't afford this car, or I hate my job and 363 00:28:33.119 --> 00:28:37.759 there's no other jobs out there right now. You know, you get in 364 00:28:37.759 --> 00:28:44.680 those yeah butt moments, right and when you say an affirmation or you create 365 00:28:44.720 --> 00:28:48.799 a positive daydream, there's always that part of you that's like, m that's 366 00:28:48.839 --> 00:28:52.519 not going to happen, or that's a nice daydream. That's a nice affirmation, 367 00:28:52.680 --> 00:28:56.279 but never worked out for me in the past. I think if you 368 00:28:56.440 --> 00:28:59.839 just say yeah, maybe that's so, I'm just going to fake it, 369 00:29:00.160 --> 00:29:04.599 I make it and keep visualizing this happening, I think it still works. 370 00:29:06.000 --> 00:29:10.279 One thing that I do is I will create a playlist of happy, positive, 371 00:29:10.359 --> 00:29:14.240 uplifting music to go along with my daydreams. So when I'm working out 372 00:29:14.240 --> 00:29:18.000 at the gym or walking my dog, I play that music and I go 373 00:29:18.119 --> 00:29:22.240 over and over the daydream. I think that's really important. I've been doing 374 00:29:22.279 --> 00:29:26.880 that for years. It worked. It doesn't it, It does work. 375 00:29:26.960 --> 00:29:33.319 It absolutely does work. I have used music and playlist back of the days 376 00:29:33.319 --> 00:29:37.000 where we made playlist on cassette tapes. So that's a long time ago, 377 00:29:37.039 --> 00:29:41.000 I know, but but I would do that with to evoke a certain emotion, 378 00:29:41.799 --> 00:29:48.400 to process thoughts or feelings, and I used it to be encouraging to 379 00:29:48.519 --> 00:29:55.920 myself. You know. For example, I have playlists now even still now 380 00:29:56.319 --> 00:30:07.279 on my computer where I play songs that are there to evoke relaxation, or 381 00:30:07.279 --> 00:30:11.799 pieces for meditation, or pieces for peace, or some that are just you 382 00:30:11.880 --> 00:30:15.240 know, really happy, Thank goodness, it's Friday afternoon music. But they 383 00:30:15.279 --> 00:30:22.480 all evoke that sense of who I am and what I want my world to 384 00:30:22.559 --> 00:30:26.759 look like at that moment, you know. I mean, it's Friday afternoon, 385 00:30:26.759 --> 00:30:30.279 I'm gonna be listening to Jimmy Buffett. There you go. What would 386 00:30:30.279 --> 00:30:33.480 you say to people who are like well, I don't know what to day 387 00:30:33.000 --> 00:30:37.440 about because I don't even know what I want. Oh, then that's where 388 00:30:37.440 --> 00:30:41.240 you have to start at. That's where you have to start. Yeah, 389 00:30:41.359 --> 00:30:45.839 it is asking yourself that question. And a lot of times where folks start 390 00:30:45.920 --> 00:30:51.799 with that is being able to listen what they don't want. That's often where 391 00:30:51.799 --> 00:30:52.640 folks go with that. Well, I don't want to do this, and 392 00:30:52.680 --> 00:30:55.400 I don't want to live here, and I don't want to blah blah blah 393 00:30:55.400 --> 00:31:00.240 blah blah. Well, okay, so what's the opposite of that? Would 394 00:31:00.279 --> 00:31:03.440 that look like? If you could have if you could have anything in the 395 00:31:03.480 --> 00:31:07.119 world, you want it right this minute, what would that be? And 396 00:31:07.200 --> 00:31:12.559 you have to be very careful about what you want. And I've done this 397 00:31:12.599 --> 00:31:18.279 in classes that I have taught about manifesting symanthem. So some folks may have 398 00:31:18.319 --> 00:31:23.200 heard this, But I remember for years I would when I lived in Suburbia, 399 00:31:23.440 --> 00:31:29.400 would I would say, I want to live on a particular island and 400 00:31:29.759 --> 00:31:33.319 be able to see the ocean every day. Well, and I want to 401 00:31:33.319 --> 00:31:37.240 buy a house on that island. Well, finally it got through to me 402 00:31:37.319 --> 00:31:41.960 that that's not what I wanted at all. I didn't want the burden of 403 00:31:41.039 --> 00:31:47.240 home ownership or the responsibility or the terror of having a hurricane come along on 404 00:31:47.240 --> 00:31:48.920 that island. I just wanted to go, want it to be able to 405 00:31:48.960 --> 00:31:53.079 go and enjoy it and do whatever I want it when I wanted to. 406 00:31:55.000 --> 00:32:01.519 And once I figured that out, then my whole approach to visualizing and manifesting 407 00:32:01.599 --> 00:32:07.559 what I wanted my time on that space to look like dramatically changed and I 408 00:32:07.640 --> 00:32:10.799 was able to then be clear about what I did want and have indeed been 409 00:32:10.839 --> 00:32:15.720 able to manifest that. Yeah, And sometimes I think you can start with 410 00:32:15.920 --> 00:32:22.359 how do you want to feel? Yes, you know, rather than what 411 00:32:22.400 --> 00:32:23.839 do you want your life to look like? How do you want your life 412 00:32:23.880 --> 00:32:28.279 to feel? And go from there, well, what will make you feel 413 00:32:28.279 --> 00:32:30.720 happy, what will make you feel at peace, what will make you feel 414 00:32:30.759 --> 00:32:35.000 calm and centered and whole? And I think that's a good place to start 415 00:32:35.039 --> 00:32:37.000 as well. And the other thing I like to do is come up with 416 00:32:37.079 --> 00:32:43.599 an end result image. So if for example, you're trying to manifest a 417 00:32:43.640 --> 00:32:49.160 new job, just picture yourself shaking hands over a desk with a contract on 418 00:32:49.200 --> 00:32:52.640 the table that you've just signed for that employment, right, Or if you 419 00:32:52.720 --> 00:32:55.240 are hoping to get a new car. Just visualize yourself, you know, 420 00:32:55.319 --> 00:32:59.799 signing the loan on the car and someone handing you the keys. Get to 421 00:32:59.839 --> 00:33:02.720 the end result of what it is you're trying to manifest, and leave the 422 00:33:02.759 --> 00:33:07.279 house up to the universe, and don't be small with yourself, you know. 423 00:33:07.319 --> 00:33:12.920 Wayn Dyer used to always a the universe is an ocean of abundance, 424 00:33:13.039 --> 00:33:16.880 and we all go to it with a teaspoon, remember, and used to 425 00:33:16.880 --> 00:33:23.039 say we should be bringing buckets. I do remember than saying that I miss 426 00:33:23.119 --> 00:33:29.240 Wayne Dyer. Me too. Now we've all heard that expression thoughts or things. 427 00:33:29.640 --> 00:33:36.400 But luckily science has now proven this thoughts can be measured electromagnetically. The 428 00:33:36.519 --> 00:33:40.480 protein basis of DNA look like syntax and language, which has led scientists to 429 00:33:40.559 --> 00:33:50.000 speculate that our words truly can influence our DNA. Rudolf Steiner wrote that intuitives 430 00:33:50.160 --> 00:33:54.799 must understand that feelings and thoughts, things happening in our imagination are just as 431 00:33:54.880 --> 00:34:00.079 real as tables and chairs in the world of the physical senses. He wrote 432 00:34:00.119 --> 00:34:05.759 in the Soul and Thought World, feelings and thoughts react upon each other just 433 00:34:05.799 --> 00:34:08.960 as do physical objects in the physical world. There can be no progress on 434 00:34:09.039 --> 00:34:15.559 the path to higher knowledge. Unless we guard our thoughts and feelings in the 435 00:34:15.599 --> 00:34:20.599 same way we guard our steps in the physical world, it's pretty powerful. 436 00:34:20.800 --> 00:34:23.719 Well, it really is. I'm thinking about that because I love Rudolf Steiner's 437 00:34:23.760 --> 00:34:28.440 work, and so I think about that notion of what is real, which 438 00:34:28.480 --> 00:34:31.159 takes me back to the idea. Really, because what he's talking about here 439 00:34:31.519 --> 00:34:37.199 is quantum physics, and that everything is just energy, and so how we 440 00:34:37.679 --> 00:34:40.960 feel, how we think, what we see, what we're able to touch, 441 00:34:42.760 --> 00:34:47.679 is just a matter of vibrations and the way in which the molecules coalepse. 442 00:34:47.920 --> 00:34:52.119 And that's really what he's saying. You know, feelings are no different 443 00:34:52.159 --> 00:34:55.159 than stuff, it's just how we perceive them. I do too. But 444 00:34:55.239 --> 00:34:59.960 I think a lot of people, especially when we're in those times of stress 445 00:35:00.079 --> 00:35:04.480 us and the hamster wheel cycle of life, right, I think a lot 446 00:35:04.519 --> 00:35:07.639 of us aren't even aware of our thoughts and feelings throughout the day, or 447 00:35:07.679 --> 00:35:10.760 if we are, we stuff them down because we don't have time to pull 448 00:35:10.840 --> 00:35:15.960 them out and honor them. Yeah, push it down exactly, which is 449 00:35:15.960 --> 00:35:21.800 why we always come back to meditation, journaling moments of silence in your day 450 00:35:22.239 --> 00:35:25.039 so that you can get in touch with those thoughts and feelings. The happy 451 00:35:25.039 --> 00:35:28.480 thoughts and feelings, they're right there, they're bubbling up. You know, 452 00:35:28.800 --> 00:35:30.480 You're like your own little champagne bottle. They just bubble right up. But 453 00:35:30.639 --> 00:35:35.760 the scary, negative, worriesome thoughts, we do tend to push those down. 454 00:35:35.960 --> 00:35:38.400 And I think if we want to guard ourselves, as Steiner is saying, 455 00:35:38.519 --> 00:35:44.039 against those types of thoughts and feelings, we do need to allow them 456 00:35:44.239 --> 00:35:49.800 to come to the surface and then try our best through daydreaming, creative visualization, 457 00:35:49.880 --> 00:35:53.840 imagining, and affirmations to shift those thoughts and feelings into the positive. 458 00:35:54.039 --> 00:35:58.880 As you were talking, I'm thinking, sometimes I think it's hard for folks 459 00:35:58.880 --> 00:36:02.679 to let the good stuff bubba uh. I think we as a society get 460 00:36:02.840 --> 00:36:10.840 so conditioned to fear and doubt and negativity that to be able to just stop 461 00:36:10.880 --> 00:36:15.400 and say, Wow, it is a beautiful day, and I am grateful. 462 00:36:15.559 --> 00:36:19.679 It's hard sometimes to find joy. So I think that too, is 463 00:36:19.719 --> 00:36:24.119 a matter of learning to condition ourselves to see the world in a different way. 464 00:36:24.760 --> 00:36:30.840 Well, especially when you're raised in a family that tends to be more 465 00:36:30.880 --> 00:36:35.960 cautious or negative. Or remember my former mother in law saying don't trade the 466 00:36:36.000 --> 00:36:38.440 devil you know for the devil you don't know, right, you know, 467 00:36:39.000 --> 00:36:43.199 or those I hate all those things like you can't have your cake and eat 468 00:36:43.239 --> 00:36:45.639 it too. But you know, like in Shock dey Goeen's book, like 469 00:36:45.679 --> 00:36:51.400 you mentioned, she says, we always attract into our lives whatever we think 470 00:36:51.440 --> 00:36:55.559 about the most, believe most strongly, and expect on the deepest level, 471 00:36:57.000 --> 00:37:00.719 and imagine most vividly. Well, what if as a kid you were told, 472 00:37:01.039 --> 00:37:05.559 Oh, you're not the smart one in the family, or you're not 473 00:37:05.599 --> 00:37:09.599 the pretty one, or you're not the favorite, or life is hard, 474 00:37:09.760 --> 00:37:15.199 or you've you've got to work all the time. Life is work. You 475 00:37:15.239 --> 00:37:19.199 know what if you were told that over and over and over again, it's 476 00:37:19.239 --> 00:37:22.800 going to be hard, you've got to do extra work to then shift that 477 00:37:22.039 --> 00:37:28.039 so that you're not attracting more of that, absolutely true. You know. 478 00:37:28.119 --> 00:37:31.000 My sweet little daddy, when I would say something one was wonderful happening or 479 00:37:31.039 --> 00:37:37.320 going to happen or whatever, his response almost always was yeah, honeybuddet, 480 00:37:37.480 --> 00:37:45.679 just one thing is And what he meant by that was yeah, but there's 481 00:37:45.719 --> 00:37:51.039 all this blist of bad stuff that could happen instead, And he always almost 482 00:37:51.079 --> 00:37:55.599 always went there. It was always this negative stuff. And I still hear 483 00:37:55.639 --> 00:37:58.960 it. If I could hear it in what I just said to you all 484 00:37:59.360 --> 00:38:01.880 in my dad us voice, I can, I can hear it. And 485 00:38:02.840 --> 00:38:08.159 that was a hurdle I've really struggled to get over. And sometimes I had 486 00:38:08.199 --> 00:38:13.199 default to his way of thinking. And I try to catch myself and say, 487 00:38:13.519 --> 00:38:16.639 yes, but it's what if something wonderful happens? Yeah, And then 488 00:38:16.800 --> 00:38:21.119 I try to hold on to all the times when something wonderful did happen. 489 00:38:21.639 --> 00:38:24.159 But you know, even as a parent, deb I find myself doing crop 490 00:38:24.280 --> 00:38:30.159 like that. My daughter's stressing out because she's trying to find this paid internship. 491 00:38:30.199 --> 00:38:32.360 I did not know. This is a new thing. Like when I 492 00:38:32.400 --> 00:38:37.159 was in college, internships were not paid. Now they pay you. So 493 00:38:37.199 --> 00:38:40.039 she's trying to find this paid internship and I gotta work this summer I got 494 00:38:40.440 --> 00:38:44.719 and I said to her, honey, you have your entire life, like 495 00:38:44.800 --> 00:38:49.800 the rest of your life when you leave college is just work and paying bills 496 00:38:49.840 --> 00:38:52.800 and getting up and doing it all over again. Enjoy your summer. And 497 00:38:52.880 --> 00:38:55.360 she kind of looked at me, and she goes as adulting that bad, 498 00:38:57.039 --> 00:39:00.280 And I thought, I thought, Oh my gosh, what did I just 499 00:39:00.360 --> 00:39:06.079 put in her head? You know so, I think sometimes as parents we 500 00:39:06.199 --> 00:39:08.119 do that and we don't mean to. I was trying to be positive, 501 00:39:08.159 --> 00:39:12.639 like, don't worry about getting this huge eight to five, you know, 502 00:39:12.800 --> 00:39:15.199 big job, You got the rest of your life to do that. Have 503 00:39:15.440 --> 00:39:20.440 fun. But I think inadvertently I sent a message of adulting is hard. 504 00:39:20.960 --> 00:39:27.440 Well, yes, let's do a couple of other quotes from Gawaine's Creative Visualization 505 00:39:27.480 --> 00:39:30.480 book because she had some great things to say. She says, every moment 506 00:39:30.519 --> 00:39:37.639 of your life is infinitely creative and the universe is endlessly bountiful. Just put 507 00:39:37.679 --> 00:39:44.679 forth a clear request and everything your heart truly desires must come to you. 508 00:39:45.840 --> 00:39:49.400 Oh that's powerful, and I want to believe it. I really do. 509 00:39:50.239 --> 00:39:53.800 I think the thing the key there is a clear request, meaning, going 510 00:39:53.800 --> 00:39:58.239 back to our discussion, if you have to know what you want and you 511 00:39:58.320 --> 00:40:00.000 have to know how you want to feel a you get what you want, 512 00:40:00.519 --> 00:40:05.760 and then I think the second step in that is surrendering it, leaving the 513 00:40:05.800 --> 00:40:09.079 house up to the universe. She also writes, let us imagine that life 514 00:40:09.159 --> 00:40:14.360 is a river. Most people are clinging to the bank afraid to let go 515 00:40:14.559 --> 00:40:19.360 and risk being carried along by the current of the river. At a certain 516 00:40:19.400 --> 00:40:22.639 point, each of us must be willing to simply let go and trust the 517 00:40:22.760 --> 00:40:27.800 river to carry us along safely. At this point, we learn to go 518 00:40:27.880 --> 00:40:31.639 with the flow, and it feels wonderful. Once we've become accustomed to being 519 00:40:31.639 --> 00:40:36.800 in the flow of the river, we can begin to look ahead and guide 520 00:40:36.800 --> 00:40:42.079 our course onward, deciding where the course looks best, steering the way around 521 00:40:42.079 --> 00:40:45.320 boulders and snags, and choosing which of the many channels and branches of the 522 00:40:45.400 --> 00:40:52.000 river we prefer to follow, all while still going with the flow. I 523 00:40:52.119 --> 00:40:55.079 love that section of her book because it's not only about surrendering, it's also 524 00:40:55.159 --> 00:41:00.480 about trusting. And I feel like it's also including our intuition because she's seeing, 525 00:41:00.960 --> 00:41:05.760 once you learn to go at the flow, then you can help guide 526 00:41:05.880 --> 00:41:08.599 the course onward and look at do I want to go around this boulder or 527 00:41:08.639 --> 00:41:13.920 avoid this nag. So it kind of combines the two imagination and intuition, 528 00:41:13.960 --> 00:41:17.679 which I think is great. And she says the process of change does not 529 00:41:17.800 --> 00:41:25.920 occur on superficial levels through mere positive thinking. It involves exploring, discovering, 530 00:41:27.480 --> 00:41:32.920 and changing our deepest, most basic attitudes towards life. And I think the 531 00:41:34.119 --> 00:41:38.320 key there is changing how we see the world around us. You know, 532 00:41:38.480 --> 00:41:42.719 I have this lovely friend and my you know, over the year's folks, 533 00:41:42.760 --> 00:41:45.639 if you listen to this podcast for in length of time, you know my 534 00:41:45.079 --> 00:41:52.480 nickname for Samantha's Pollyanna Well, Samantha's pollyanna ishness. Cannot hold a candle to 535 00:41:52.559 --> 00:41:57.239 my friend An and I watched and go through. We've been friends for many 536 00:41:57.320 --> 00:42:00.840 years, and I've watched her go through lots of transitions in her life, 537 00:42:01.239 --> 00:42:07.079 some of which would to me be absolutely devastating. And I have watched her 538 00:42:07.199 --> 00:42:14.639 do those changes with grace and dignity and with cheerfulness, and with excitement and 539 00:42:14.840 --> 00:42:20.840 expectation of what's next. This is a wonderful adventure. And here I go. 540 00:42:21.320 --> 00:42:27.360 And I've watched and talk to her about her attitude a lot because I 541 00:42:27.440 --> 00:42:34.239 want what she's gone. I don't always have that ability to be as expectant 542 00:42:34.320 --> 00:42:39.119 and exciting and as willing to change as she is. And I'm happy for 543 00:42:39.159 --> 00:42:42.960 her, and I would love to see us all have more of that. 544 00:42:43.840 --> 00:42:47.400 Me too, And I think that that change is It's scary and it's not 545 00:42:47.480 --> 00:42:52.280 overnight, but it can happen. I have seen very good friends in my 546 00:42:52.320 --> 00:42:57.960 life who when they came into my life fifteen twenty years ago, we're kind 547 00:42:57.960 --> 00:43:01.280 of negative. Nellie's right, not negat of meaning mean or mean spirited, 548 00:43:01.440 --> 00:43:07.239 just negative towards themselves and how they thought life would work out. And I've 549 00:43:07.280 --> 00:43:12.519 seen them through the years of work on this and change it and reap amazing 550 00:43:12.559 --> 00:43:15.840 benefits in their own lives, and then I've seen that echo out to people 551 00:43:15.880 --> 00:43:20.559 around them. That's the thing with all of this, whether it's your imagination 552 00:43:20.840 --> 00:43:24.920 or your intuition, when you're coming from a place of positivity and hope and 553 00:43:25.000 --> 00:43:30.639 expectation, not only does it change your life, and as we mentioned before, 554 00:43:30.280 --> 00:43:35.880 science is showing it changes your DNA, but it also helps influence the 555 00:43:35.920 --> 00:43:38.480 people around you. You know, there's I think it's to Lula bank Yard. 556 00:43:38.559 --> 00:43:42.880 Yo, I'm getting ready to say a sort of a dirty word here. 557 00:43:43.159 --> 00:43:46.679 I think it's to Lula bank Yard who made the statement life is a 558 00:43:46.719 --> 00:43:53.639 banquet and most fobs are starving to death. Oh that's Auntiemame, it isn't 559 00:43:53.639 --> 00:43:59.599 Antimaine. Oh yeahl Then, okay, all right, I love that quote. 560 00:44:00.199 --> 00:44:04.440 So true, because we really can manifest whatever we want. I think 561 00:44:05.079 --> 00:44:08.519 that's what we're most afraid of, though in some ways, I think people 562 00:44:08.639 --> 00:44:15.920 are more comfortable just wanting other people to fix things for them, or maybe 563 00:44:15.000 --> 00:44:22.639 blaming other people. I think this idea that we really are in most you 564 00:44:22.719 --> 00:44:27.679 know, percentage wise a larger percentage, we are in charge of our destiny 565 00:44:27.800 --> 00:44:30.599 and our fate in our outcome. I think that's scary to a lot of 566 00:44:30.639 --> 00:44:37.079 people. If we really tap this idea that the majority of stuff that has 567 00:44:37.119 --> 00:44:42.559 happened in my life I have helped co create. I think that's I think 568 00:44:42.599 --> 00:44:45.800 that can frighten some people, don't you. Yeah, that's a lot of 569 00:44:45.840 --> 00:44:50.159 responsibility, isn't Yeah, it really is. And yet again Pauline on a 570 00:44:50.239 --> 00:44:53.000 here talking. But if you can flip that on its head, you can 571 00:44:53.079 --> 00:44:59.079 see how incredibly empowering and impactful that is. That if you are a co 572 00:44:59.280 --> 00:45:02.960 creator of your life through your thoughts and imagining and being able to surrender trust 573 00:45:04.000 --> 00:45:07.039 and follow your intuition, you can create anything you want for your life. 574 00:45:07.760 --> 00:45:12.960 That's I think that's miraculous. All right, let's finish up. Tell us 575 00:45:13.039 --> 00:45:20.000 what Shakti Kueen said we should we should say when we're trying to creatively imagine 576 00:45:20.119 --> 00:45:23.800 ourselves into a better chapter of our life. This is going to sound really 577 00:45:23.880 --> 00:45:28.199 familiar to most of you, and yet you may not have realized where it 578 00:45:28.280 --> 00:45:34.679 came from. So here it is this or something better now manifest for me 579 00:45:35.559 --> 00:45:44.199 and totally satisfying and harmonious ways for the highest good of all concerned. That 580 00:45:44.360 --> 00:45:47.880 covers it, doesn't it? It does? I love that. So basically 581 00:45:49.519 --> 00:45:53.960 what I need, what I want is coming to me gently and kindly, 582 00:45:54.360 --> 00:46:00.519 without hurting another soul. Something else that needs to be highlighted this or something 583 00:46:00.639 --> 00:46:05.599 better, because sometimes we think we want this, but something better is actually 584 00:46:05.760 --> 00:46:08.679 out there waiting for us. Absolutely. I can't tell you how many times 585 00:46:08.760 --> 00:46:13.719 that has happened in my life. Yeah. Same, And you don't get 586 00:46:13.800 --> 00:46:17.000 to this and you think, oh, this manifesting stuff sucks. My imagination 587 00:46:17.119 --> 00:46:22.840 isn't working for me, This isn't happening, and then the better comes along 588 00:46:22.920 --> 00:46:25.480 and you're like, oh, that's what it means to go with the flow 589 00:46:25.559 --> 00:46:31.159 of the river. I have enjoyed this episode with you, Samantha. This 590 00:46:31.239 --> 00:46:35.639 has been fun to Alcoba. It has been, and we hope you guys 591 00:46:35.679 --> 00:46:38.599 have enjoyed it as well. Thank you as always for listening. Just a 592 00:46:38.760 --> 00:46:43.599 reminder, if you enjoy this show, please consider telling a friend or leaving 593 00:46:43.719 --> 00:46:47.159 us a review on iTunes. It really does help other people to find us, 594 00:46:47.199 --> 00:46:51.280 It helps our podcast to show up and searches, and it helps us 595 00:46:51.320 --> 00:46:53.480 to grow our community. So we really would appreciate you helping us get the 596 00:46:53.519 --> 00:46:57.960 word out. 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