Awaking The Soul Of Power

This week’s special guest on the show, award-winning author, acclaimed TEDx speaker and one of the most sought after spiritual teacher’s, Christian de la Huerta. 

 Christian is also a personal transformation coach and a leading voice in the breathwork community. 

Christian has travelled the world offering inspiring and transformational retreats.  His new book titled: Awaking the Soul of Power was described by mega star Gloria Estefan as “a balm for the soul of anyone searching for truth and answers to life’s difficult questions."

So, without further ado, joining us today from Miami…

Christian de la Huerta!

This show includes a meditation to awaken soul power.

"So awakening the soul of power, is the greatest gift in my opinion that one can give oneself and of course, the world. Yes, to those unfamiliar with what that means. Fear not, for this show is going to provide a rich array of invaluable answers. In the words of the play writer, John Webster, the soul was never put in the body to stand still. So on that note, I thought, who better to speak to us today on awakening the soul, the new Christian? So Christian, what does awakening the soul of power mean to you? And what inspired you to talk about it today?"

"That's a huge question. So let me start with this story. I'm one of nine kids in a very Catholic family..."

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So I'm your host, The Gentle Yoga Warrior and please welcome today this week's special guest on the show, award winning offer acclaimed TEDx speaker, and one of the most sought after spiritual teachers, Christian De La Hurta. Christian is also a personal transformation coach and a leading voice in the breathwork community Christian has travelled the world offering inspiring and transformational retreats. his new book, titled awakening, the soul of power, was described by megastar Gloria Estefan as a balm for the soul of anyone searching for truth and answers to life's difficult questions. So without further ado, joining us today from Miami, so hello, Christian, welcome. Welcome to the show. Hi, Jane. And thank you so much for having me. I appreciate the opportunity and look forward to our conversation. Now I'm really looking forward to this. I've been really excited about this. Today we're going to talk about awakening the soul of power inspired the Christians new book. So awakening the soul of power, is the greatest gift in my opinion that one can give oneself and of course, the world. Yes, to those unfamiliar with what that means. Fear not, for this show is going to provide a rich array of invaluable answers. In the words of the play writer, john Webster, the soul was never put in the body to stand still. So on that note, I thought, who better to speak to us today on awakening the soul, the new Christian? So Christian, what does awakening the soul of power mean to you? And what inspired you to talk about it today? That's a huge question. So let me start with this story. I'm one of nine kids in a very Catholic family. And I have an older sister, and all of us were like, within 12 years, so we're really close on age and really tight. My older sister who's like, maybe a year and a half, two years older, natural born leader, when we were kids, she would boss around not only the, you know, the nine of us, but the entire neighbourhood of like, 15 kids and not in a bossy, obnoxious way. And just in a very natural way, she'd say, oh, let's go do that. And we would all say, yeah, let's all go do that. When she hit puberty, like something happened, I don't know, if somebody said something to her about, you know, girls be behaving a certain way or not. I don't know if she just picked it up from society through osmosis. But she turned it off. And she assumed as this kind of Mother Teresa persona, she's beautiful, wonderful, brilliant person. But in relationship to her own personal power, she turned it off. So that's always stuck in the back of my mind. And then about 10 years ago, I had submitted a proposal, a book proposal to a literary agent in New York that I was working with at the time. And she said, Yeah, I want to I want to work with you. But I want to see some of these ideas from your marketing plan implemented, before we pitch it to a publisher now that would have taken me to implement those ideas would have taken me a year. So it was like, putting on the brakes. And for a few days, it just sent me into Canada like crisis, right? Well, because I was already kind of spending the advance in my mind. And so then I landed on this question, what would I write about what I really want to write about? If I weren't thinking about an advance or anything like that? And about a month before, sitting in meditation for only the second time in my life? Well, now it's happened three times. But at this point is only the second time that sitting in meditation, I heard audible words, no, like, not words inside of my head, like words that I actually could hear. And the words were the soul of power. And so I got up from meditation. I was like, Well, what an interesting concept, and I got the URL and went on with my life forgot about it. So a month later, when I'm when I'm thinking about what am I going to write about next? It's, you know, it was like one of those palm to the forehead moments like a DA kind of thing. Or Eureka, if we're gonna frame it a little bit more positively. It because I've been saying for years that the single most important thing that needs to happen in the world is the empowerment of women. And not to idealise women not to put women up on a pedestal not to give women more stuff they have to clean up, you know, in this planet, it's because we've been working, functioning so off balance, so off kilter in on this planet, in terms of the balance between the masculine and the feminine energies. And so I believe that when women are in 50% of power, we're going to have a very different relationship to war. And poverty and hunger and and social justice and education and how we treat the Avaya environment, etc to all of it. So So that's my strategic thinking. So it was like, all right, empowerment of women, Soul of power, like how do we do that in a different way? How do we step into power in a way that's not about hierarchy, but control about fear, force, domination, manipulation? How do we step into power in a way that doesn't require that we push somebody down step on them, in order for us to feel powerful? And and so that's the first part of the second part of your question, how I got to this point and started thinking about this stuff. Oh, that's, I love, I love hearing those words. And I really felt that from reading your book. And it's interesting, isn't it, because sometimes women to think that they're in the power, they feel like they have to take on this hierarchy kind of stamp on people way of being I've seen that in powerful women and positions and jobs I've had before and in the past, where they weren't in touch with the divine feminine energy within themselves. And they thought that was the way to be powerful, where I feel it's like a balance of both masculine and feminine energies that that are in with all of us. And sometimes, women being a woman, myself, I feel from a young age, but kind of taught probably is not from no criticism from the adults, but it's just the way they were probably taught to kind of, not be within our power and to kind of to be in our power is not being well behaved. And it sounds a bit like what happened with your with your sister, we're kind of taught to kind of be in the background was changed a lot, obviously, because I've been on the planet a while, but it's changed a lot. But that's, that's how I felt as a child. And growing up as only recently I've kind of stepped into my power eautiful. Jen, I love that. And then what I also hear from a lot of women who come to my women in power retreat is that that because we've had this this way of looking at power, which is a more male energetic, more hierarchical relationship to power. And we will go back to you to your other question about what is the full power, but because we've had this understanding, or misunderstanding or limited understanding about what power is that a lot of women felt that they had to, like, deny their femininity. So at the workplace, they the way they dressed, the way that they wore their hair, that their attitude, their leadership style, was often what we traditionally thought of as, as, you know, as more masculine and what's really interesting, which is kind of twisted, that you know, the same exact leadership qualities that in a man we'd look at as Oh my God, what a strong decisive leader in a woman. It's like, What a bitch. And, and it's and there's just something not okay with that. That's not okay. Yeah, that's very true, isn't it? It's just if a woman's in a power, which is kind of criticised and kind of looked down on and by some people, I've noticed that as well. So I know, you said you, you write this book for everyone, but particularly message for women, and I can see your expert in that. Why, why now? Was it was your sister your inspiration? Or was it? Do you know what inspired you to to help to buy shoes, the original one that triggered the thought, but you know, that was decades ago. But that's been in the back of my mind observing that. And then it was that incident that I told you about, and and just, you know, just thinking about the way of the world and, and how we dig ourselves out of this hole that we have collected, collectively dug ourselves into. So when I think about that strategically, like what is one thing that we could do, that will impact a lot of other issues and challenges. That's what I land on is by empowering women by educating women, that we then impact all those other areas that we were talking about it and that you know what the thing is that we've been so confused and about what power is, and most of us have, I believe an ambivalent relationship to power, like part of us wants it and part of us is afraid of it. And and I think the more that I work with people, you know, both men and women and retreats around this issue, is that I think we fear that if we really stepped into our power into all of who we are, if we gave potential full potential or full expression to our potential that other people couldn't handle it that other people would, receptors or rejecters, and then we might end up alone. We also fear that we might abuse that power and cause harm and no wonder because all we got to do is turn on the news. any given day to witness at least one abuse of power. And then on top of that, we've been conditioned to believe that power is a bad thing. Power is a negative thing. Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. What they didn't tell us about Lord actons quote about power is that he was speaking specifically about political power, not personal power. And so when you put all that into a mix, and you add to that mix, the fact that we have been conditioned to, to fear the emotions, we've labelled the emotions weakness, in the same way that we've labelled the feminine weakness, which is absolutely a total misunderstanding and misinterpretation. And it's just completely not true. If you want to talk about power and courage and strength, let's talk about the power of creativity, that that lies in a female body. But when you put all that stuff together, we have we hate conflict, we avoid confrontation. And what happens is that we give our power away. And for lame reasons, you know, we settle for less, we say yes, when inside it's really not okay with us inside. It's a real it's really a no, but because of all those reasons, we you know, we play small and we we do it for an illusion of security for a false sense of acceptance and for morsels crumbs of pseudo love. And, and not a good strategy. So I agree it's almost if we kind of try and like just fit in and and by saying yes, will mean no, and and vice versa, where it's almost we're so terrified, offending anyone. And but if everyone's doing that, then no one's actually been realised. We're all kind of saying yes. And vice versa is kind of like this big play going on rather than who we who we really are. And exactly, yeah, exactly. And that's why it's a false sense of acceptance and an illusion of security and a false and, and sudo low because it's not authentic. Yeah, yeah, I think that's the best gift we can give a gift to the world is to be authentic. But it's not always easy. I've been a kind of person that didn't like conflict in the past, and I don't necessarily go out to find conflict. But if it's something I'm really passionate about, I do try and say something I try remember the words, is it kind is it necessary? Does it improve on the silence? I kind of kind of take, that's one of my quotes that I live by too. Oh, that's lovely. Excellent. That's brilliant. So we're talking briefly about female power. So what what does it mean to have healthy, masculine power? Because I think men get a hard time in this world as well. And I think they're kind of really restricted. And, I don't know judged and blamed for everything, as well. Without a doubt, Jen, I think, without minimising the horrible effects of this inequity between the genders and the oppression of women for the last several 1000 years, completely unacceptable, and no longer sustainable. So without minimising that important to include in the conversation that men also pay a power, pay a price for this patriarchal expression of masculinity, this toxic masculinity, that this way of being with ourselves and expressing power that that that requires that we push somebody down because it's, it's no humans are by nature, social creatures. And, and so this kind of relationship to power is very isolating. And we've got this twisted definition of what it means to be a man and what it means to be a woman. But we'd be but but there's a price that men pay. So let's look at a couple of numbers. I don't know the global numbers for suicide. But in the United States, men commit suicide four times as frequently as women. 70% of the suicides in this country are committed by middle aged white men, which still is the group that that holds the majority of the power in the world. And so when you when you look at that, and we look, let's look at longevity, like in the US, women outlive men, by five years, and globally by seven years, what's going on here, right? Something is not working for men. And I think part of is what is what you're referring to, in what we're talking about that this way of thinking about what masculinity is, it's incredibly limiting and it's actually a prison. So we walk around with, you know, because of what we were talking about before about labour Miss labelling the emotions as weakness. We've created these these prisons for ourselves where we have to walk around like this uncaring unfeeling robots from a young age now when we're told little boys don't cry. Because why? Because you know, the only little girls crying because that's weakness. It's like wait a minute, what a faulty assumption like, what used to be spiritual teaching that everything Energy. Now we know from quantum physics that it's true, everything is energy energy cannot be destroyed. That means that our bodies are energy, our emotions are energy, there's just energies that are coursing through our bodies. And so we get into trouble with the emotions, when we suppress them. Because they just don't go away, you can't sweep them under the rug. So they get lodged and stuck in the tissues of our bodies. And after years and decades, and a lifetime of suppressing emotions, we walk around with layers upon layers upon layers of repressed emotional crap. And here we are trying to have a relationship in the present, all of that is getting filtered through that lifetime of suppressed emotions, which we dump on each other's lap. How any relationships can work boggles the mind. So that energy has to come out one way or the other. And so either we suppress, suppress, suppress, and then the next poor, unfortunate soul rubs us the wrong way. And boom, volcanic eruption, disproportionately to the situation, because it's been like that we've been suppressing that stuff for so long. And or suppress, suppress, suppress, and then that energy has to come out one way or the other. And it starts seeping out and showing up as physical symptoms in the body cancer, heart attacks, ulcers, so we've really got to work this out, we've got a workout, our relationship to the emotions, and we've got to work out our relationship to power, I completely agree. And I feel as a society, many got a blind spot to that they just feel I feel like they just think health is just about, you don't feel well. So you go to your your doctor, and they prescribe you something for it. And it is the whole body. And it's the mind body soul connection. And that kind of needs to be brought back into harmony. And it is simpler than what people think I'm not saying it's easy, but it is simpler than what people think. And there's many tools out there. I know that you do breathing workshops, and I had asthma from about my teens till about my mid 20s. And I actually queued up through breathing. I'm not saying I get it right all the time. I can hold my breath. Sometimes I know that's an emotional thing. Sometimes I can hold my breath, and stuff like that. But I really do believe in the power of breathing and how it can act as a tool to heal the body. I just wondered if you wouldn't mind sharing for our audience, which are very interested in breathing been interested in yoga, if you could share anything about your breathing workshop? Yeah, it's the breath is critically important. Because of what you just pointed to, when we get upset. Either anger starts coming up or, or agree for emotions that we, you know, just reactively what to suppress and not feel because because we run away from them because of what we were just talking about. So the first thing that happens is we stop breathing, or we start breathing very shallowly. And that's what anchors those emotional energies in the body. So if we, if we take nothing else away from this conversation, you know, for your audience, is when we start feeling those upsetting emotions, or any emotions breathe, like really, literally consciously, take deep breaths, so that that stuff doesn't get stuck in your body. And so yeah, that's it's another big conversation about breathwork. Because there's breathwork, as you know, as a yoga teacher is a very broad term. And anybody who's been to a yoga class, you know, has done pranayama practice. And there's techniques for for stress management and relaxation. There are other breathing practices that are more focusing and more energising that are great to use, you know, in place with a cup of tea or a cup of coffee, that really brings up the energy in the body that the breathwork that I that I that I offer, and retreats is longer. And it's more intense, you breathe in in a circular connected way, for about an hour, an hour and a half. Some modalities go longer and go for like three, four hours. And amazing stuff happens. As you know, I don't know anything more effective in terms of healing past trauma, and he and clearing those suppressed emotions that we walk around with it you know, I was on a track to get a PhD in psychology. My dad was a psychiatrist. So I come out of the psychotherapy tradition and with all the respect in the right hands with clear goals and timeline, amazing things can happen and it can be very, very supportive. And we all know that you can sit on somebody's couch or in their office for years and decades at a time and nothing happens. And rehashing the same old crap. And the reason for that the reason that therapy can often fall short, is because that trauma no longer lives in the in the mind. It's like You know, it's been so magnetising. And in now losing the tissues of the body, so no amount of talking about it, it's gonna get to it, to be able to clear it. Understanding It is great, you know, understanding what happened to us when we were five, or 10, or 15. And the effects that it's had on our lives and our relationship is great, definitely better than not understanding and still running these patterns from the subconscious. And the magic of breathwork is that a bypasses the mind, and it goes into the body, and it clears that stuff quickly, like even one session can be life changing. It was for me, after my very first session, I knew that I would never be the same. And I knew that I had to do it again. And I knew that I had to offer it to others, I jumped tracks and never went for the PhD. And that was over 30 years ago now. And I've been, you know, I've travelled all over the world, working with you know, right before the pandemic, I was going to China three, four times a year, working with high level corporate leaders, and tech leaders, millionaires, billionaires, with the simple and very powerful practice, and what a gift to give to the world. Christian, I will leave details at the end of this podcast, I would like to move on to your book. Now. This book, wow, this is such a gift to the world. I really enjoyed it, I read, I read it all the way through, I like to read it twice. And then it's just the way I work. I'll read it all the way through. And I've bought myself a notebook and I've titled it, I'm going to work through all the exercises, I did a few but I want to do it all is this book. I would say to my listeners, this book, if you if you did this book, I would say if you works correctly wrong, but if you worked on, if you're busy, even if you've worked on an exercise a week from it, and what read a chapter a week, and then did the exercises at the back, you cannot help but transform this, you know, it's just I would say it's like a spotlight on the blind spots in our personal growth. You know, like all these things that we have, that stops us from being that on personal hero, and it shines a light on all those things. You know, like, the things that distract us, we all have them like I don't know, we instead of kind of just sit down and focus and we can get distracted very easily. Like you said in the book by TV, sex, shopping, gambling, social media, into the name, but a few there's a way of like overriding our fear and what stops us being in our power. Because as we discussed earlier, sometimes we were frightened of of power, we were frightened of abusing it, or equally were frightening of not having power. So I would I wonder if you'd like to speak a little bit about your book today, Christian? Yeah, what a beautiful thing that's really touched my heart though he spoke about the book. Thank you so much. Yeah, you know what? Like, you, you described it, you You nailed it. That was my intention. I know how busy everybody is, I know how over scheduled Our lives are I know how easily distracted we are in this add society. And so and I know how few people actually read books. And so I tried to make it as easy as possible to do it. So very short chapters. very doable. And you're absolutely right, do a chapter a week, it'll take you get through the chapter in 10 minutes. What you're pointing to is really the key, though, right is to apply the practices. And it won't take you that long. And you can just you know, if you do a little short chapter, do two chapters a week, but do the practices. Because that's what that's what's going to transform your life. Otherwise, that's what's going to ensure that the concepts don't stay conceptual, right? That because we don't need more information, we've got information overload, what we need, what we need is transformation, that word that you used. And that's what those practices are designed to do, to transform our lives, and to free ourselves from the self made prisons that we that we have caught ourselves in. And and so that's why the the first part of the book, the first quarter of the book is understanding the self made prison of the mind of the ego mind. And because if we want to have relationships that have a chance of working, if we want to have a sense of personal empowerment, if we want to have a life that is filled with meaning and with purpose, you with God to get we've got to really understand what the ego mind is and how it keeps us in this self made prison of fear and limitation. And victimisation and projection and and so that's why especially that part of it in the first part of the book is important take your time, then the rest of the of the book is about what WooCommerce About power, like how do we step into power in a way that is a match with who we are. Right? That doesn't require that we do those those hierarchical expressions of fear that don't require that we push anybody down or, or be corrupted that we can step into power in a way that is congruent with the goodness in our hearts, and, and the generosity and the compassion that is inherently inside of us. And and, and so yeah, I love the way that you that you describe the book and the fact that you're going back now and doing it. byte by byte, you know, piece by piece, I love this. It's such a gift to the world. I couldn't not do that. And I think that's the best way. For me personally, that's the best way for me to work is through it to do a bit each week. And I just, I just felt so you put it in a way that was accessible to so many people I felt and and just the words that you use and and you're very honest with your story, and I just found it really, really warming and moving to read. I like the way you used Gollum from Lord of the Rings? Because to me, that is the ego, isn't it? If ego is to come up with the body. Yeah, yeah. And thank you for noticing that too. I tried to make it as fun as possible, because like you said, it's not easy. This stuff that we're talking about is is it's intense, right. And that's why this book is part of a series of three on calling all heroes, that's what the series is called. Because to have the courage to have the willingness to go inside, and to look there to face our inner demons. To ask the questions, the hard questions, why do we do the things we do? Why do certain people trigger us and others don't? Don't? Why do certain things trigger us when it doesn't trigger my friend and right next to me? Why do we have these patterns of self defeating self sabotaging behaviours? Why do we get stuck in these in these patterns of relationships that sometimes feel like we're stuck in the same old boring movie, maybe now with a different actors, the CO lead is different, but it's the same boring patterns, the same boring stuff, the same boring crap cover not coming up that we, that we're dealing with. So at some point, we got to get honest and realise and accept that there is one common denominator in every one of those relationships in every one of those arguments in every one of those situations. And that's us. And so the only way out of this prism is to go with it. And that takes courage. And that takes that's it's nothing short of heroic. And and so that's why I tried to make the book as manageable and accessible and easy and fun. And brought in, you know, references from from literature and pop culture and hero movies, superhero movies, that and yes, shared some of my personal stuff, because everything that I write about a stuff that I've lived, and, and still do and still practice, and it's stuff that allowed me to to, to free myself. Now my adolescence was one long depression with suicidal fantasies, I know self doubt, I know self hatred. And these days, you know, sharing the this path on these teachings on these concepts that I that I write about in the book. It's like never, ever, ever do I question my sense of self. Like, no matter what happens in my life, no matter the details, or the circumstances, whether a relationship works out, or it doesn't, whether a project succeeds, or it fails in quotes, never do I questioned my my sense of self like that level of self acceptance. That level of self love is profound, and constant and unshakable no matter what, no matter the circumstances. And I know that's available for anybody who reads this book, that very touchy words, Christian, very touching words, I was actually going to ask you in any of the tips, you could give our listeners on how to embody personal power, you know, what I'm on the journey to self on this journey from to self love, we first have to go to self acceptance. And before that, is self awareness, right, because we can't do anything about what we can't see. So so that's why taking this journey within it's heroic, and and why knowing understanding why we do the things we do is important, so that we can do something about it so that we can heal this stuff and clear these old patterns. Which because as we were saying before, you can't sweep this stuff under the rug, from under the rug, it's still impacting that stuff is still impacting our behaviour, and in our relationships and the quality of our lives, just subconsciously. And so, anything that we can do to become more self aware, any practice Like, here's one that I recommend send a set up a timer on your iPhone or your your mobile phone, set it for an hour, every hour, every two hours, whatever you want to do, and but when it goes off, you stop whatever you're doing. I mean, of course not. Not if you can't if you're in the middle of a conversation or something, but if you're driving, if you're working on the computer, like pause, right, 60 seconds, that's all it takes. Move your eyes away from the screen, and then just start noticing, right, look around you, what are you noticing? What am I seeing? What am I hearing, like, get into your senses? Like, go through each of your senses? What am I sensing and my feeling that the breeze or of the air conditioning? on my skin? You know, what am I hearing the sounds next door, the leaf blower, the you know, whatever, whatever we're listening and just just go inside, what thoughts are going through my head right now. And don't jump on the train of thought I just imagine yourself just a great visual for meditation practice, just imagine you're, you're standing in the tube station. And yet the tubes come in, you know, the trains come in, and they go right back out. And you don't jump on them. Right? So they come into the station and you let them go right back out. Same thing with a thoughts, right, you notice the thoughts, and you look and you let them go. Don't don't go into onto the story of the thought. Just observe and then what emotions are coursing through my body. And and that's another practice that's really that's very helpful. Like when if you would have asked me 30 years ago, up what I was feeling, I couldn't tell you, I had no idea what I was feeling. And my degrees in psychology and my dad was a psychiatrist. But one thing is knowing about it conceptually, another one is knowing about yourself and what's going on with you. So this is what I the private practice I took on and this was before cell phones. So I had a timer, you know, one of those Radio Shack timers. And I got a list of emotions from somewhere and I created a grid, you know time versus a different emotions and so that my timer would go off and hit pause. And I go through my list. Am I feeling this? No check. Am I feeling this? No. Am I feeling that? No, check that one, maybe maybe. And that alone doing that a couple of weeks just increased my EQ my emotional intelligence tremendously. And it's a simple practice, all it takes is a little bit of discipline to do that. And to pause for 60 seconds, pausing and being within ourselves and learning to be in the moment is a great gift. No, I totally agree exact I used to be totally I don't know, fragmented from from how I was feeling because I wasn't always able to express how I was feeling, journaling, anything like that can really help one, get back in touch with with ourselves. And being in the present moment, which makes us whole as a person, the more present we can be, the more we can offer to ourselves into the world. So definitely, definitely. So how I like to ask this question, I have a few questions. The one I like to really ask is how can we better guests on the planet? know everything we've been talking about, free yourself, step into your power authentically. Understand what the ego is. You know, it's there's a simple metaphor about the ego that we don't have time to really get into it. But if you put a football in the centre of a stadium, that's what the ego is, who we are is actually the freaking stadium. And so understand what the football is so that we can cut out that limited perception that limited behaviour and step into the realm of the stadium. And that alone will change your life completely, completely. And and if enough of us do this and start living from from the ways in which we're talking about today and living these practices, the world will change, guaranteed. Beautiful 100% agree. So Christian, where can people get your book? Because I really, I want I want to read what they can get on Amazon worldwide? Is it? Is it on Barnes and Noble or Waterstones or what's the best place? Yeah, yeah, they can get it at your local bookstore. And I love Waterstones, by the way, I don't know. They just have to order it. And all that all that bookstores have access to it through their distributors. And yes, it's available on Amazon as well. And in terms of reaching me, probably the best way is my website, which is soulful. power.com. And for your audience, if any anybody who goes to my website to soulful power calm and gets on my email list, right? So all you need is all you need is the email. And we all know how easy it is to click unsubscribe down the road if it doesn't work for you. And and so just by virtue of doing that, they'll get a sample chapter from the book, talking about what it means to live heroically in the 21st century. They'll get some of these power practices that you and I We're just talking about and they'll get a teaching a recorded teaching on a guided meditation about trust, which I created intentionally last year when you know, during, during the the worst of the pandemic as a support for for all of us living in these chaotic and uncertain times. Now how do we how do we move more into trust? Amazing, amazing. So listeners, please do check out Christian's website soulful power.com. I will put links in the info. So Christian, thank you for joining us today all the way from Miami. I really appreciate your time. And thank you. You've been a great guest and do stay tuned listeners. For I will be sharing with you a meditation on soulful power. Thank you, Christy. Yeah, thank you, Jay, for having me on the show. I've loved the conversation. I love the naturalness of it in the back and forth and the depth of the conversation, the realness and authenticity of it. And so thank you for having me on the show. And thank you for having the show. Because I know that in your willingness to do that many, many lives are being helped and impacted. Thank you, Christian. It's been a real grace. And I know I feel really touched by having you on the show. And thank you, deeply inspired by Christian delegators talk on awakening the soul of power. He was an absolute joy to have on the podcast and I wanted to do a simple meditation which inspires you to tap into the soul of your personal power. Remember, a balance of power. a balance of learning to be who you are authentic Lee are in this life is the greatest gift you can give to yourself and others. likeable forms meditation, please do not do this when driving or operating machinery. Instead, press pause and the best place to do meditation is somewhere quiet where you will not be disturbed, possibly at home or in your garden or somewhere nice and peaceful. So sit up tall how you normally sit for meditation, either in a chair or cross legged on the floor, just what's accessible for you and your body. The important thing is the spine is as straight as you can so that you feel comfortable but not strained. And start to take some slow deep breaths in and out almost as if you're like raindrops flow falling from the sky. So soft pitter patters of inhalations and exhalations, allowing that flow to grow, grow. And then take your focus to the area just below the navel. In yogic terms, this is known as manifest chakra, which is your sense of personal power, and being and yet we run run run for who we really are. were scared to be powerful, but scared to be weak. But what is power? And how can we learn to tweak an excess, as sold power, the gift that we were born to bring to this world? Remember, power comes by being an authentic self. If we learn to be true to who we really are, it doesn't matter if everyone likes us or everyone loves us. Many, many, many people are remembered when they step into their authentic truth and be who they really are. from a place of loving kindness, a pet place to be, but a place of freedom, showing and shining in the light of who they are really meant to be. Not just accessible to you, dear one. So go back into the abdomen, the sense of personal power thing yellow beams of light like sunshine into the world. And that sunshine is an each and every one of us. The things that dim our light are the cloak of our ego. Our ego is what keeps us small, imprisoned in things like being a victim, being not good enough, all these kinds of things we use to keep ourselves down distractions by things like Netflix, not living life in moderation, too much gogogo with not enough flow too much social media, too much comparing ourselves to everyone else. But you won't anyone else, you never will be that other person who will never be you. And that's what's so beautiful. We're all like little light bulbs on this unique but connected, light line of lights. Each and every part. Each and every particle of our being helps to bring joy and happiness into living. This things in the world that are really messed up. Not everyone agrees on things, or not everyone can see eye to eye. But isn't that beautiful in many ways, for there's no thing in life that is that cut and dry. Instead of worrying about what everyone else is doing about people not agreeing with people agreements, etc, etc, etc. These are just a few examples. But whatever it is that you worry about that stops us setting, stepping into your sole power. Let it pause, let it be. Stop trying to change everyone stops with yourself by learning to simply be step into your personal power or learn to find jobs. Learn to find that amazing person you are. Whoever you are, you are amazing. And you will go far. You don't have to be a big bright star with your name lit up in lights. You don't have to be meek and hidden in the corner. Can't you just learn to love yourself for who you are and be? Yes, you can just learn to accept yourself. And this finally set yourself free. For as you breathe in as meditation, I surely deeply believe that we are put here to learn and perceive what wonderful beings we all are if we only allow ourselves to go that far. So stop with the action. Stop with the distraction learn to slow, slow, slow action has this place in time. But factor in time to find your inner flow to love yourself. And thank you for listening. So slowly, slowly come back into the moment back into the now take some deep breaths inhale and exhale. While Well done, dry and well done. 

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