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Awakened Conscious Conversations
Embracing Personal Transformation: Navigating Astrological Shifts and Discovering Your Inner Spark
As the holiday season approaches, discover how to embrace personal transformation and emotional growth with renewed clarity and intention. Can astrological shifts like the transition from Scorpio to Sagittarius inspire you to cultivate self-compassion and understanding?
Join us for a journey inward to uncover your inner spark—a symbol for new beginnings and inspiration. Through a serene guided meditation.
This episode offers practical tools to nurture your spark with patience and mindfulness, helping you cultivate a balanced life path filled with calm and joy. By connecting deeply with your highest self and purpose, you'll gain the clarity needed to approach life's transitions with grace and adaptability.
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Hello, dear listeners, and welcome to this week's show. I feel like there's so much going on in people's lives, whether it's the people that I come into connection with at the moment and so many people I feel are also going through such a hard time. It's quite a demanding time of year as it is for the run-up to the holiday seasons. It can be a very hectic and busy time. But besides that kind of level of things, there's things going on a very much deeper level. For those of you who have lost people, I always think holiday times can be a difficult time. And then there's those of you who are going through things where you might be losing someone, someone's sick, etc. Stepping back from the, the sadness of that, and also there may be listeners here who aren't going through that there is. This is a time of massive transition massive and it almost feels like it's been atomic this year as we come out of the Scorpio and at the weekend we'll be coming into the fiery, sparky Sagittarius new moon. As we come out of the deep and sometimes brutal, but also I feel like scorpio digs stuff out which is difficult, but then by doing that it helps with other stuff. So by digging deep through the scorpio time you come out with the sparks of kind of joy for the sagittarius time, where it's it's a fire, but it's a kind of lighter fire signs in many ways and can be. Some may see it's immature, but it I'd say is useful, is a better description of of that time. But so what? There's all these things coming into factor, so the changing, changing into the new moon, into Sagittarius.
Speaker 1:The difficulty of this time of year is we're in the vata dosha, which in the Ayurvedic system is a combination of air and also a combination of ether. So it's very creative. But also in many ways we feel a bit kind of suppressed and and kind of stuck. Or there's this energy that's kind of sizzling and it doesn't know quite what to do and we kind of dive into stuff that we may not necessarily want to as we we end up exploring that in ourself, which can feel difficult, I completely understand. So how does this podcast help you?
Speaker 1:As always, I ask my listeners never listen to anything blindly and take what you want from it. Some things you'll agree, some things you may not agree, and that's absolutely fine. If we all agreed on the same things, it would be a boring world. But what can one do during this time? First of all, the biggest thing that you can do is have a massive kind of Santa sack of compassion to yourself and to other people. We're all doing our best as we navigate through this.
Speaker 1:There can be so many misunderstandings because we're all kind of dealing with our own pain in many ways and then we see the lens of the life through our own experiences and stuff. So step into the present moment as much as you can, try and have less assumptions. So we assume people are acting a certain way for a certain reason, or we assume that people are thinking a certain way and it's not always the case. And I think the key to that is conscious conversations where you kind of slow down, you listen to each other and you tap into that spirit within yourself, your higher self, and you try and communicate to their higher self. Try not to assume, try not to make assumptions. Boundaries where you need to put boundaries, don't let people just walk all over. You try and find a way to navigate through things that helps you, and the tools in your kit box can be things like holisticness in a sense and I know that word sometimes can be a bit corny.
Speaker 1:People say, oh, holistic. But anything can become holistic. The way we wash our dishes can become holistic. The way we go throughout our day can become holistic. To me, holistic means being in the present moment. I'm coming from our highest self and seeing this great big picture rather than this narrow vision that we have of the world in so many ways.
Speaker 1:And we are not meant to be all happy and perfect all the time. That is a kind of strange fantasy in many ways. We're not meant to be miserable all the time either. We are like the seasons we're happy and we can be sad. It's kind of when we linger too much in a particular season that it can feel overwhelming and we can get stuck. So allow that kind of flow of who you are and what you're going through to be, but at the same time, realize that you are beyond the person who is observing you. I'll repeat that you are beyond the person that is observing you.
Speaker 1:So when you observe yourself in meditation, can you step back from that even further? Can you use the breath? Can you use a deeper sense of well-being? Can you make healthier habits? Can you do micro habits which are going to help you on your way? Can you Dary in time to find stillness? Just be Dary in time to allow yourself to be bored. Try to resist the temptations which try and drag us out of boredom, but can you allow yourself to be bored every now and again because such creativity can flow from that space if we don't pack our brain in like an overpacked pillow with too many kind of filling, and allow some space for the air, the movement, the breath, and allow ourselves to flow and be and then see how that unfolds for you, on this magical journey, this wonderful journey called life, which is so different and so transitional in so many ways, and stepping out of anything that's keeping us stuck and again, consciousness is a key to that. Try new things, micro habits.
Speaker 1:Don't always take the easy option, which I know life is so tough these days, but the easiest option isn't always the best option. Think long-term plans in line with the goals that you wish to have, but also have a bit of kind of fluidness to that, because you don't just make a plan and it just falls into place. It's the journey into where you feel like you need to get to, and sometimes you may stop that journey and think that's where you want to be, but when you get to the destination it might not necessarily be where you want to be, but maybe it was necessary, maybe it wasn't. There is. It isn't a cut and dry answer, but I think nothing is ever a waste if we kind of try and go wherever we're going from our highest self, from a place of stillness, and then we're deciding on what road to take. So enjoy your transition into Sagittarius and get that spark back into your life as we come into the holiday, seasonal month of December and enjoy, slow down. Remember that you don't have to get every piece of work out of your inbox or the world will end. Sometimes we can put this ridiculous pressure. Just do your best and that's all that you ever need to do in life.
Speaker 1:So here, as always, is a meditation inspired by today's show. Top tips for the meditation is either sit nice and cross-legged on the floor with a nice straight back always nice to sit on a block or a cushion, or that's not available for you. You sit in a chair with the back nice and straight. The important thing is you're not slouching and if you're doing something that requires your concentration, all you need to do is just pause this and you can reconvene the meditation at a time that is good for you.
Speaker 1:If you're doing the meditation, let's begin as you close your eyes. You imagine that you see a room, and at first the room is in darkness, a calming, safe darkness, and you're sitting in this room with your eyes closed, this imaginary room room, and suddenly, as the moon just looks like, it disappears and it becomes a new moon of life. So what is the spark? And at first that spark doesn't come. You can just stay there a bit longer and allow that feeling of what that spark is, and if you have your spark after this meditation, you can write this down and you can build from that and just see how you can kind of navigate through this month with that spark.
Speaker 1:Let's, though, stay in this mindfulness place a bit longer. So you're glowing with a light, you emanate your highest self, your highest purpose, but to remind yourself and to connect back to that regularly, you use the tool of your breath. As you slowly inhale, you slowly exhale, and with joy, a sense of calmness, a sense of being. You continue to come back to the moment Every time your mind wanders off. You just come back to the moment through a slow, calm, deep and loving breath, and you can continue with that slow, calm, deep and loving gentle breath for as long as you wish to. If you're in a bit of a hurry, then just come back into the moment. Come back into the now. Thank you.
