Louise Hurley - Drama Teacher and show Director Episode 2

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This week we sit down with Louise Hurley: Louise is a passionate teacher and director, combining over a decade of teaching drama, making theatre, and creating magic with her soul family of students in South East London. The Covid19 lock-down caused a full stop, and the forced silence opened the door to an intense awakening experience. She has since written Necessarium, a channelled play, which has given another level of meaning to her life purpose, and to the creative and expressive gifts that she has used throughout her life. As a newly qualified Reiki practitioner, Louise has also been given the opportunity to discover just how strong her intuitive gifts are, and how they all fit in to her Dharma of identifying and enabling in others, the emergence of the part of the soul that innately needs to exist, giving it space to shine, explore life’s narratives, and to creatively express what it inherently needs to.
Music by Pixabay and Liborio Conte

Necessarium extracts written by Louise Hurley, performed by Warren Adams and Louise.

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Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:00

Hello everyone and welcome one and all to season two of Warren Telling Tales of the Creatives. This season I will connect with creatives around the world in countries such as Hong Kong, Sweden, India, Canada, the UK, and Australia, to name but a few. You will find out more about the wonderful creators themselves, their backgrounds, their work, and what inspired it. Alongside this, you'll hear extracts from projects they've worked on now and in the future. The singers, actors, writers, and inspirational speakers will hopefully inspire others to get out there and make it happen.

SPEAKER_01 0:33

I hope you enjoy it. Okay. Hey Louise, how's it going?

SPEAKER_02 0:38

Hello, I'm good. How are you?

SPEAKER_01 0:40

I'm very well, thank you. Thanks for coming on onto the podcast.

unknown 0:43

Hello?

SPEAKER_01 0:44

Good stuff. Um, it's lovely to have you on. We're gonna have a little chat with you about everything that you're up to, what you're doing. It's gonna be awesome, and I think our our listeners are gonna be really interested to hear more about you. For those that don't know, I suppose we should probably tell people how we know each other.

SPEAKER_03 1:03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:03

Um so Louise and I met, well, it was quite a few years ago now, uh, many years ago, in fact. Uh I would say it was probably back in 2007, 2008, around that time.

SPEAKER_02 1:17

2007, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:18

Yeah, there we go. So 2007, and uh we we worked on a number of theatre and education shows, performing in schools, doing workshops. We did that for quite a while. How was that for you? How was that for you at that time working as a as a as an actor in this was in London, we should probably add as well, mainly sort of south, south London, southeast London. Yeah, how was that for you at that time?

SPEAKER_02 1:43

I loved it, I really, really did because although I was acting, I always knew that what I was going to be doing was teaching. So going into schools, performing in um an educational setting, it just it really fulfilled me. It I enjoyed it so much, and obviously we were on tour, and there was you know groups of us, and we were just literally having the time of our lives. It was just a different time, it really was. Van stories, all the fun.

SPEAKER_01 2:17

Yeah, exactly. Yeah, no, it was it was a lot of fun. We did lots of touring, as you said, and uh turning up at various schools in a in a big van and performing to to kids of the age of sort of 13, uh actually even younger than that. We did one for primary schools as well, didn't we? So uh um it was it was a lot of fun. I really enjoyed that. And we also we did some stuff in in uh you know pupil referral units and young offender institutions and schools, primary schools. It w it was brilliant. After that, you you moved you moved away from uh from performing, I should say, for a while, didn't you? And uh what what happened after that? What did you end up doing from from then on and and are still doing now?

SPEAKER_02 3:00

Well, I went back and I retrained as a teacher, as a drama teacher, and I have been head of the drama department at a secondary school for almost a decade now. And yeah, it's what I was always supposed to be doing. It's it's my dharma, it's my purpose. I I love every minute of it, absolutely every minute of it. The students they just enrich my life in a way that's just well, it's unexplainable, really, but it's just they're everything, they really are, and I really enjoy what I'm doing. I love my job.

SPEAKER_01 3:34

It's very nice to hear that. It's uh it's uh it's a heartwarming uh message that you're putting out there. And um, I've actually been to uh to observe some some shows or watch some shows that you've been involved in in the past at at the school that you teach at. And uh the the shows themselves are you know phenomenal. We're we'll come back and talk about them a little bit later, what you've been up to with that. But it's uh they really are brilliant, and you can see your your passion for for the arts, your passion for teaching, and the the reaction that these these young people have uh to towards you is is amazing. And you know, lots of people go into teaching, some people enjoy it, some people don't. Um, but it seems like, yeah, as you said, it you it's something that that you're just a natural, like even when I remember even when we were performing and and going in and doing workshops, like for me, I was I enjoyed working with with young people, I enjoyed the educational aspect of it, but I was I was more down there. I I wanted to perform and I wanted to do these shows and you know learn the lines and get the buzz from from doing that. Um and the the educational side at the time uh came second. You know, things changed for me a little bit after that as well. But but I could see from for you, like you obviously love the performing, but you were sort of you were involved in in all aspects of of the work. So you were sort of like helping out with with with the music creation, and you were um in the workshops, you were a driving force when it came to creating some of the workshops and leading the workshops, and um, and you were always super energetic and always had a positive mindset. And you know, sometimes we were turning up at schools at you know six o'clock in the morning or something ridiculous, and but you were always you were always ready to to to do it and be there, and and you were a great person to have around um uh at that particular time. It was it was brilliant. Yeah, so so you went you went you went in, you did uh a PGCE, and uh and then you have been teaching now for how many years?

SPEAKER_02 5:40

This will be my ninth year at my current school, and then my training year, so a decade.

SPEAKER_00 5:47

Wow.

SPEAKER_02 5:48

I know, I don't feel like it's been a decade, but oh yeah, it has.

SPEAKER_01 5:55

Yeah. Oh gosh. Nice, nice, nice. Um and uh we I mentioned very briefly a second ago about your shows that you that you've been putting on. Um, you know, I I've been to see other theatre shows at schools, and it's safe to say that they are not quite on the same level as as the the work that you and your you know the the performers that you're working with. Uh the level in which you create, I mean, it's it's incredible, actually. Like when I came to I came to watch um one of your shows, it was it was quite a few years ago now, but um I just remember sitting there thinking, I I can't believe this is uh a school production. Like the the the production value was insane. Um, I mean, the costume, the lights, the staging, uh, the commitment from the young people as well. I mean, it's it's really impressive. And I think a lot of that is down to your passion and you know, your your you know, your talent. And obviously the kids or the young people see that you, you know, you you really enjoy what you're doing. So um it has a it has a very positive effect. Um yeah, no, no, of course, of course.

SPEAKER_02 7:07

I think my my whole kind of thing behind that is I work in a school in South East London and I want to give them the most professional experience that they can possibly have. And obviously, it helps coming from a performance background myself, being an actor, being professionally involved in in theatre. Um, so I'm able to, because you know, drama teachers, it's it's a lot to produce a show on your own. You are the director, you are the costume designer, you create the set, you're the lighting designer, you are choosing all the music for the underscoring, or directing the musicians if it's a a musical. Um so there's a lot to do, but it wouldn't be anything without the talent that I've been so lucky to have worked with over these past nine, ten years. I mean, the kids, they are just so, so talented. And we're like we're like a family. I call them my sole family because all of the students involved in the shows, we're just we've always been drawn together. I can look down the corridor and know exactly what student is going to want to be involved in a show. Um and when I'm choosing the shows, I know exactly who would be right for um the particular roles. It just it's so fluid and it's so beautiful. And we spend so much time together when we're in rehearsal for a show. We're rehearsing every evening after school, we're in at weekends. It's it's a big commitment from the students, and and that's why it gets to the level that it does. And also, I'm lucky in my school with we have a performance budget. Um, we also have a fantastic technician who puts up with me. We just need this, this, and this and this. And then he's like, but Louise, and I'm like, but please. So, you know, it it's it's been well, they are intense, intense experiences, but uh they're irreplaceable for those students that will remember them for the rest of their lives, and and not just the shows, the process behind it, the friendships that they make, the the community, the building of their self-worth, being able to step on that stage in front of their friends, their family, their peers, the local community, and shine for something that is inherently in them that they just want to kind of get out. And it's it's irreplaceable because they'll go on knowing that they're good at something, knowing that they can take that with them when they leave. All of those practices, all of that experience, when they leave me, they can take it on. And and you know the school is with them on their whole journey, and that's just what lights up. And yeah, I wouldn't want to do anything else. It's brilliant.

SPEAKER_01 10:09

And and um you you touched on something there that um I'd be interested to know. Have you have you have you spoken with any of the the young people about their their plans once they once they leave the school? Like are they are they do they have ideas as to what they want to do? Do they want to continue down this path of acting and drama, or or is it something that they were just doing at that particular time? Or what what yeah, have they said anything?

SPEAKER_02 10:33

I'm in contact with um a lot of my ex-students, the students that are involved in shows, and a lot of them do go on to study drama. We've got um quite a few of them in drama schools at the Brit School, and then others that have chosen to go to university and study theatre at Bristol. So there's lots of kind of different avenues that people go on and do, but yeah, I stay in contact with them. And at the moment, my current year 11s, there's a couple of them that are being interviewed for the Brits at the moment. So I prepare their monologues and get sorted out. I mean, not every student continues on and goes to college or drama school, um, but the majority that are involved in the shows are the students uh are the people, are the humans that creativity and and performance is in them, and it's what they want to do.

SPEAKER_01 11:24

But I mean, also uh even those young people that don't necessarily go to the Brit School or go on to do acting, I imagine a lot of the skills that they've learnt through doing drama and working with you for so many years, they're gonna take on into their own sort of um their life path or wherever they they they end up or whatever job they go into, or even just getting into college and university, the confidence that they would have built from from years of doing drama with someone like yourself, uh as passionate as you are about it. I can only imagine that that passion would that would have rubbed off on them and they will be able to take that into their own um their own journey and and see where it takes them. So uh it's really nice.

SPEAKER_02 12:06

That makes you feel nice.

SPEAKER_01 12:07

No, no, but I mean it I know I know from my own experience the the impact that drama can have on on young people, on on you know adults. I mean, it's a confidence builder, and you know, it's communication skills, it's all things the skills that we need in in day-to-day life, and you don't necessarily have to be heading into the West End, but you can you can take them skills and and fly with it. So I think it's great. Um it's really nice.

SPEAKER_02 12:32

It's the skills, it's the social understanding that the students have that's really above um other students, the way the communication and the way to kind of um understand other people and be able to react accordingly and and uh you know become uh strong, powerful, aware members of our society. It's yeah, it is, it's it's irreplaceable. It's irreplaceable.

SPEAKER_01 13:03

And was was teaching for you um did it beat your expectations, or was it something did you know that teaching was gonna be as good as it was or has been for for for yourself? Like the feelings that you have when you teach and what you've taken from it and what you've given. Have those expectations been matched or have they exceeded them?

SPEAKER_02 13:26

Or I think it surpassed my expectations. Um I think what I get from it though is is is very different to what I imagined I would because obviously I went into it loving performance, loving theatre, wanting to teach. But where I find myself now is just being so grateful for the students that I've met and how we've worked together, and the impact that we've had on each other's lives, and and really seeing those synchronicities and those reasons why I was supposed to work with certain students and and where that would go. And it's obviously I look at things from a different perspective now. Um I've kind of been looking at things from a spiritual um perspective more often than not now, and I guess we'll go on to talk a bit about it.

SPEAKER_01 14:29

We're gonna touch on that in a little bit, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 14:31

But it's really about being the soul contract and and the soul family um aspect to the theatrical workings that has really kind of surprised and delighted me um over the past couple of years.

SPEAKER_01 14:46

Nice, nice, nice. Um it's yeah, it's it's very interesting, and we we are going to move on to speak a little bit about uh the spiritual um elements that you mentioned uh shortly. Before we do that, 2020, uh it's a question that I will probably ask most people because it's been uh a year to, I don't know, a year to remember, a year to forget, a year to uh you know, everyone's handled it in a in a very different way. Um how was how has 2020 been for for yourself? Is it is it have you how have you navigated your way through the year? Has it been a challenge for you? Have you been able to just use it to your advantage to to learn new skills? Or yeah, well, how how's it been for yourself?

SPEAKER_02 15:32

Well, it's been the most awakening experience of my entire life. Um, I mean, the first the first time we were sent into lockdown, we were just about to do our component two GCSE exams at school, which is encrypted pieces that they have to perform to an examiner. So we'd been working on those pieces for months and months and months. Um, the examiner was coming in the following week, and the head teacher was like, No, the school's closing, we're all going home. And I was like, What? But the exams next week, what are you talking about? What's happening? And I was just bereft. I was just overwhelmed. And I was like, but and he was like, No, Louise, you need to go home. We're going into a lockdown, the school's closing. And I was like, Oh, okay, okay. But as soon as I left that building, as soon as I went home, I felt the most overwhelming sense of calm. And I never, I never thought, because I'm someone who is always so in control and so focused on getting things done, and and you have to be when you're a teacher and you're directing shows and you're in charge of so many people, so many young people that are looking to you. So you always have to be so organized. But as soon as we went into lockdown, it was just like this big exhale, and I just allowed myself to be and not do anything, and and I and I just was, and and from that, in that silence, in that space, creativity came to me in a in a completely new way, a completely new way. I don't know whether you um are gonna go on to talk about that with me, but yeah.

SPEAKER_01 17:27

We will, we we absolutely will, yeah. Well, we may as well jump onto that. I mean, it was a nice little uh nice little link in. So uh yeah, so you um you've written a uh a script, a play. I've read it, it's brilliant. Um we're actually gonna we're gonna play uh two monologues, two monologues at the end of the episode, and uh you very kindly let me perform one of them, um which I'm really excited about doing. Um so I so I'm gonna perform one of the monologues, um, one of the lead characters, and then you're gonna perform the other monologue. Uh I'm really excited about it. Can you can you give everyone a uh an insight into this this script that you've that you've written, uh what it's about, um and what the actual monologues are about, so people have an idea before before they actually listen to it as to what they're listening to. That would be great.

SPEAKER_02 18:26

Yeah, and just to say, I'm so excited to hear your monologue because it was the first time I've heard it come alive.

SPEAKER_01 18:32

So I'm just like, oh no pressure.

SPEAKER_02 18:36

I can't wait. Um, so yeah, the play is called Necessarium, which is Latin for indispensable, and it points towards the lead character always feeling like she was throwaway, she was dispensable, she was replaceable, um, and that being from society as a whole, um, from the perceived methods of control used at her place of work, from men. Um and it basically it's the journey of two twin flames, um, which are two souls that have split in half. Um and they've traveled many lifetimes together, and in this lifetime there is a huge barrier to them connecting and and being together, and it looks at their journey, but it also is set today. I wrote it during the lockdown period, so it looks at the power structures of the world, um, control, fear, um, and then it mirrors, it mirrors that in her place of work as well, where her perceived um the way she sees control in that setting, um, and fear, and how we acquiesce to rules because of fear, rules that we wouldn't usually follow. Um, there's lots of stuff about race, um, about the patriarchy, um, but essentially it's about longing. And the lead character Elizabeth, she's always had this real strong sense of longing, and it looks at whether that longing is for her twin flame, which is similar to a soulmate, but you have many soulmates in your lifetime that come into your life for a reason, um, but you only get one twin flame. But it looks at whether that longing is for her twin flame, or whether it's the holy longing, whether it's something that only can be fulfilled by source, by the universe, by God, whatever you, you know, however you describe it. So, yeah, longing would be a word that I'd use to sum it up. And the two monologues that we're gonna look at are from the two lead characters, the the twin flames, and how they are dealing with knowing they they know that they've got this connection. Um Elizabeth knows a little bit more in terms of what she's been experiencing um spiritually, but there's this real sense of oh, like we know we need to be together, we know we need to do something, we know there's a reason behind um our connection and why we're here now, but in the situation that they are in, which when you read the play, you'll you'll find out why they actually can't be. But in the situation that they're in, there's so much to consider and so much to think about. And Elizabeth is kind of like, well, what if I'm wrong? What if I'm wrong? What if I'm making this up? What if you know I do something and the implications down the line are just it's not worth thinking about? So the two monologues are the characters talking to each other, but not.

SPEAKER_01 22:00

not direct each other um about the situation they find themselves in during the lockdown period being away from each other so yeah that's that's necessarium you know that's yeah it sounds like an epic epic journey um I uh well it's uh it's nice to uh to hear from the from the creator and the writer of of this story and and it's um it really does sound like something that uh I think I think it's incredibly uh relevant to to now but it's something that could you could have read in the past in the future it's sort of like almost timeless in a way but also incredibly relevant to now so it it's it's it's brilliantly put together um I was very impressed is this your first first piece of writing that you've that you've done or it's a very different piece of writing if I've got how I wrote it it's a very very different piece of writing I mean I've written in the past I've written little um bits and bobs scripts for school um but this was something that I never ever expected to happen to me I never expected to have a whole play emerge from me um and a play as oh as I I can't even think of the word that I want to use it's it's it's it's sort of um it's I mean it's it's it's exhausting in places because it's just there's so many emotions out there and it it's it's funny and it's uh it's entertaining it I mean it just has it has so much to it I think you know everyone needs to to to hear this this piece and um what what is what what plans do you have for the actual script itself do you have you got an idea as to what you want to do with it or have you just written it just just for now or you know do you want to get are you looking to get it put on somewhere or what what is what is the sort of the the future plan for it if you will well let just instead of beating around the bush let me just say how I wrote the play because I think an idea of of my answer to that question.

SPEAKER_02 24:10

Okay so basically during the lockdown period I can't wait to hear this I can't wait to hear this during the lockdown in that silence um I just as I said I allowed myself to just be just to relax and in that silence I started to um what I can describe as receive poetry so I would spend my time writing poetry and again it was on you know there was lots of things that I was writing about that I'd considered about twin flames about past lives um but the poetry was coming in such a way that it didn't feel like it was coming from me and then I was given lots of songs and I I was writing lots of songs and again words that I wouldn't necessarily use um concepts that I feel like I kind of half knew um didn't fully know um then I was given lots of conversations that I could have with people that I know or um should have with people and it seemed very strange but there was something telling me you just need to write them down you just need to write them down. So you know a couple of months into lockdown I had all of these poems all of these songs all of these bits of conversation I didn't know what I was doing with them but I I just knew I had to write them um so then a couple of years ago when I was going through you know some stress at work I decided right do you know what I'm gonna write a musical so I only got literally what three scenes into this musical and I stopped because it got really busy again at work we went into a show it was GCSE time but during the lockdown I was like okay I'm enjoying writing actually I don't know where this is all coming from I've got poems I've got songs I've got bits of dialogue let me just pull my musical up and let me just see if I enjoy carrying on with that. So I pulled the musical up and I've read the first part of it and I was like okay I'm not writing this but I knew exactly what I needed to write from there. I already had the setting um the characters and so I just started writing I knew and I was in flow and I was writing but then it would get to a point where I would be like well I don't really know what happens next here. What's she supposed to do? What happens and then I'd look down and on my desk in front of me and this is all in journals it wasn't typed up all of my poems songs everything was just written on on my desk and I'd look in front of me and there would be part of a poem or part of a song or a bit of dialogue that would slot into place exactly where I needed it and these things that would give that were given to me weeks in advance and this continued continued continued and then I'd be drawn to articles I was supposed to read and um audiobooks and podcasts and and I thought that I was just listening to those because you know I'm interested in it. I'm you know that's me but no I'd listen to something and then it would be what I needed for the next part of of the play it'd be um you know it it it'd be how it would fit together and then it started to get even more intense because then I would just be I would just be told I I'm saying I'd be told I don't I don't know how else to explain this but I would just have the feeling that I needed to get to my laptop and then I'd get to my laptop and I would just write and I would just write right write right write have no idea what I was writing about um and all of this writing would flow through me and that's what makes up a lot of the monologues in the piece that was just and I know now that it's called channeling but at the time I didn't really know um but that all came through me just in flow um and then it got to a point where I thought I was finished but then I um had to go back and read over it and I was getting quite frustrated because the whole process had been really kind of oh this has been given and this has been amazing and it's flowing and it's creative but I did get to a point where I was like I don't feel like I'm getting any kind of what you'd say help but then going back and reading over it that was when I knew I had to put the things I'd experienced in life my journey my um experiences as a teacher my experiences of um working in an educational setting to be the basis of um of the characters and and give it a real sense of authenticity but I mean again you'll you'll understand when you read it but it was a process so when you ask me what I'm what I want to do with it the answer to that is I don't know the answer is I know it was written for a reason it wouldn't have been it wouldn't have happened like that it wouldn't have been given to me if it wasn't written for a reason but that reason I'm yet to to discover I'm waiting for the next ping to say okay Louise well this is what's going to happen with it so well who knows who knows yeah let's uh watch this space then watch this space uh but that the process the process in which you put it together is is a really uh impressive and interesting way of of it sounds like it was very sort of um natural and organic in its process which is refreshing to hear for those other budding writers out there or people that are interested in creating themselves it it's uh hopefully they can take some of this on board and and just throw things down on a piece of paper or various pieces of paper or you know on a on a leaflet and stick it on the wall and you know you just see where these words come from and see what happens to them and uh it's it's lovely.

SPEAKER_01 30:19

I love it. Let's just very briefly move on to so you've spoken you've mentioned on a few occasions about the the the spiritual elements and um I you are now a newly qualified Reiki instructor have I got that right yes I'm a Reiki practitioner yeah practitioner okay also during the lockdown period um as well as all of the kind of channeling channel the channeling in terms of the play um I was well the the energy came back in in my hands during meditation and I remember having this as a child being able to run my hands over things and kind of know what decisions I needed to make and I remember the feel of the energy.

SPEAKER_02 31:08

So I looked it up and I didn't know what Reiki was before. I looked it up and and discovered Reiki so then I went back and I did my Reiki one um which was it was just it was amazing and I gave treatments and I was getting so much out of it and and the people that I were giving I was giving treatments to were also getting a lot out of it. But it wasn't till I went back and I did my training for Reiki II which is the practitioner training which makes you um qualified to to practice professionally that I discovered my my intuitive gifts which again I remember having as a child but you kind of lose them in today's kind of modern society.

SPEAKER_01 31:52

So now when I'm um given a Reiki session be it in person or distance and I'm telling you I'm every day I'm just so shocked about how strong distance healings are because you make um you make a body with towels and you put a photograph and and the address of the person on the head and and that becomes the the person by proxy um and you call the person first and you talk to them and you call them after to give feedback but the whole time you're giving the Reiki it's just to the the the towel the body on your bed okay but um speaking to the clients after I would I see things I see images um I feel things so when I talk to the clients after about what I've seen they're like oh yes it's because of this this and this um I'll feel if there is something in the body um or the energetic subtle bodies that needs to be sorted out it's just it's just been a mind blown experience of my you know being able to see hear feel know it's just and that's led me on to um you know delving deeper into that and um starting some classes um on psychic medianship and and I found that I've been able to give people lots of information just by seeing them and before it was just when I was giving the Reiki now straight away looking at you I could probably tell you things although I would love to know as soon as I said that as soon as I said that I saw your face and I was like oh no because I'm still in the the position where you don't and even at the class the other day uh the teacher was saying to me just trust what you're gonna say because I was like I I didn't want to say that I feel like and then when I said it it was right they were like why didn't you just say this is what I've seen and I'm like oh because I still don't know I still don't know if this is real and like when you read the play you'll understand um that kind of always questioning spirituality am I making this up is this happening for is it real and but I've just had to say to myself if this isn't real then I mean I don't care because it's brilliant so just let it happen and and you know I don't know maybe yeah I'll have to uh I'll have to speak to you about this at another time I think and get myself looked at I dread to think um right good so it's been a pretty productive 2020 then for you it's safe to say uh which is really refreshing to hear um and hopefully you know there are other people out there who who might be struggling at the moment you know it it it's a very tough time for some people and uh hopefully hearing some of your stories and you know what you've been up to and what you've managed to create in this time hopefully that will inspire other people to do the same. Well it's been it's been very lovely speaking with you Louise um and I knew it would be I'm fascinated to see where your scripts can go. Is it with going back to the Reiki very quickly are you um is this something that you that you're working with or is it just is it is it is it more a hobby at this stage or is it something that you might want to do you know on a on a weekend or of an evening or combine it with your teaching or like how how what's the plan with that?

SPEAKER_02 35:17

Yeah no for sure so I had to do my 140 hours of case studies before um I qualified but a lot of that now has has been in this kind of lockdown period but for sure um there's no there's no hands-on treatments at the moment um so if there was I'd be contacting um yoga studios and places that might want to um have a practitioner you know on site um but I'm I'm open to distance healings and if anybody feels like or feels call to experience or already has experienced distance Reiki healing and and is looking for someone then definitely get in contact with me. I'll put because I've got some I've got a website for the Reiki and and the workshops um so people can contact me about that which is different to what they'd contact me for in terms of the play.

SPEAKER_01 36:13

Well I mean uh following on from that we will I say we I will uh I will put a link uh to to all the the work that you're up to the Reiki and uh and any other links that are you know that that are suitable at the time um I'll put everything down so if you want to contact Louise and say hey it was lovely to hear from you you were incredibly entertaining uh you rocked my world um you inspired me whatever it is um or if you're wanting to just know more about Reiki about teaching about acting about writing about just generally being creative uh all of all of uh the Louise's contact details will be in the description of the podcast so yes but before we go Louise before you have to disappear um we're gonna play a little game oh um a little sort of would you rather I'm gonna ask you five questions I'm doing this with everyone that comes on they're different questions each time don't give it too much thought literally just the first thing that pops into your heads are you ready?

SPEAKER_02 37:19

Yeah go on it all right cool would you feel worse if no one showed up to your wedding or to your funeral oh um uh wedding would be fine because I'd be with the person I loved and no one needs to see that funeral I I'm dead um uh but I'm not dead because you know you you you live on yeah yeah uh so which one is it funeral or wedding oh quick decision funeral okay funeral we got there we got there oh brilliant I knew it um would you rather be without the internet for a week or without your phone oh are they but they're but they're together kind of together but also not no because no one uses their phone to actually be a phone it's just the internet so I would say phone go with phone then all right uh would you rather meet Michelle or Barack Obama I mean um I I really don't know I'll I'll go Barack because he was Barack okay good uh would you rather lose your vision or your hearing oh that was very dramatic by the way I enjoyed that reaction because that's an interesting question I love music too much I would go vision I'd have to hear okay would you rather and this is the last one now would you rather work more hours per day but fewer days or work fewer hours per day but more days oh I would say fewer days with more hours because because if you are working during a day no matter how many hours it is for because I'm having this experience now of of teaching virtually so I'm working from home and yes it it's shorter because but every day even if you've only got one or two lessons it's still a work day and it still consumes your mind but if you had more hours on three days and the other two days off you could give yourself that mental space to disconnect from work but you can't do working every day.

SPEAKER_01 39:46

It's an incredibly uh detailed thought process that you went through there. I love it Louise you fully committed you fully committed to that game um I love games you love games I know it's brilliant I I kind of want to do some more now just to see where this goes but we can't we're we're running short on time now. Okay uh before you go the very very last thing um any lasting messages that you would like to leave for our audience it could be about work it could be about life attitudes um entirely up to you if there's like a sort of a slogan or a catchphrase or a sentence that you would like to just drop and leave with everyone um what would it be?

SPEAKER_02 40:29

No pressure yeah no pressure um this big one to finish yeah uh okay uh I don't know I'll just go with what's coming to me to say and that is just about just recognizing that we are all unique expressions and there's no one else in this world that can do what we can do or be who we can be because we are unique. There's going to be so many people that have similarities in terms of their societal conditioning what they've gone through um their experiences but there's only one person that has had the exact same experiences as you and that's you so don't feel like just always have a sense of self-worth because you are the only one who can be you are a unique offering to the world do not let fears about oh um well I don't think I I'm good at this or I could never do that or oh no but I've decided to do this with my life and I couldn't do that and oh my friend or mum or that person on Instagram you know laughed at me when I put something up or suggested this just realize that you are the only person who can be you and so who are you not to offer yourself to the world who are you not to do that you have been given this chance to be you so be you and just love yourself and and try to get rid of the fear that that's surrounding us at the moment and and find a way to focus in on the positives everyday think if if something that you see as negative has happened to you just ask yourself what have I learned from this that um that could make me a better person tomorrow you can find well you can find something that you've learned from every single contrast and experience in your life and if you change your perception if you change the way you look at things the things you look at change I think Dr. Wayne Dyer said that just change the way you're looking at things and and everything around you changes.

SPEAKER_01 42:53

You can change your whole life just by the way you see things that was a lot that was that was a phenomenal phenomenal lasting message um you should be a world leader I think Louise we could do with more people like you uh in in the in extremely powerful positions right now um very strong words uh hopefully everyone can take some of that on board um much appreciated Louise uh thank you so much for joining us today and uh I am very excited to to see this this this podcast go out and um I'm sure everyone else will enjoy it as well. Thank you very much and I will see you soon.

SPEAKER_00 43:35

Thank you see you Louise each of us comes with our own programming subconscious rules that we live by stories that we have told ourselves since childhood based on what we have absorbed when you're a child you absorb societal rules rules given by parents teachers government etc and you take them for truth you don't know any better And even when you're humanly older and you question some of them, and you think that they could be wrong, if you go against those rules, that social patterning, it still gives you that horrible feeling in your stomach. You judge yourself for breaking the rules, and and you're no longer a good boy or a good girl, and even if part of yourself, your innate inner knowing, gives you the loving response in your mind first. You don't listen to it. You listen to the judge, the egoic mind that appears next. The voice that stems from your social conditioning and your societal domestication. It could even literally appear as the voice of your mother. The one that was there to keep you safe and you repress all the intuition and lean towards restriction because it's what you have always done, and it feels safe, and you feel in control, and you want to keep control. But please listen to your intuition. Listen to that first voice. That's all I want for you. What is it saying? Is it wrong? Even if you push me away, if you want to run, is it coming from you? Really coming from you. The real you, or if it is, then keep your boundaries up. Carry on running. I accept that. All I want you to do is what you feel is the right thing to do. I crave that you wake and are able to see above the mayor, remove your blockages, the obscured agreements that at some point you have unknowingly made with yourself. And see things from a higher perspective. But until you can, I pray that you are happy in your convictions, and that and that they are truly coming from a place that you feel is right. And I forgive you. And I don't blame you, and I don't doubt the feelings you have for me because I am able to see above. And the last thing that I would want is for you to be in communication with me. In union with me, half-heartedly, the place of allowing tinier than the pace of fear, as I know that you would be in turmoil, you would feel uneasy, and you would resent me. And that would taint our connection far more than us not being together. As when we are not together, we can keep each other in our minds. The pure. So come to me. Communicate with me only when you are truly ready. When you are doing it from your own true convictions, your own real sense of what is right. Your full agreement. Trust in your own judgment. Only then can this be right. It is mental right, but it's got to be right. It's got to align. And when it does, you will see everything that you expected from this reality and more. More delicious than the chocolate that will never make you fat, and and wine that doesn't give you a hangover. Life. True existence without perceived consequence. Only good. That's what we'll be. And that's what we are.

SPEAKER_02 47:17

I was of him before I knew him. The one my soul cried out for at my bedroom window. I remember it vividly. I must have only been six or seven, but as my parents argued downstairs, where are you? I would cry. Knowing that he was out there somewhere. Knowing that he existed far before I knew what he it was. But I knew there was meant to be someone next to me who wasn't. Someone who, when we joined, when we connected, computed, amalgamated, strengthened. A nod of agreement before moving forward. Two parts of the same objective. I knew it even then, and it was so painful. My whole life has been a search, always a search in every breath, in every moment, always a search. Knowing, unknowing. I don't know when I realized, maybe from the first moment, maybe I felt it coming, but I paid no heed to anything then. Nothing was considered, noticed. There was never any stopping, any pausing to really embody anything. And now and now a wave so strong that I can't unnotice for all my wanting to? Is it worth my time to relay now the deep knowing of my soul? Would it make it any easier for anyone to understand that will never ever understand why this has to happen? Am I strong enough to explain this to anyone? Am I strong enough not to explain this to anyone? Am I swimming upstream, fighting the inevitable, or have I have I done this? Where's the fault? Is is there a fault? Do I have to live with the search still active in my body every day, knowing that it's actually over? Can I deal with the relentless pain of separation? I've got a cop knowing that there isn't. Not really. So how you laugh at me with every cell. Your cells, my cell. Because it won't be yourself. And no matter how many stands you take for me, you can't win this. You can't win this unless you change the whole world. Why did I have to be the one? And yet, for all my protests, I fear, I fear I'll be taken regardless eventually if that's the plan. For why else would your frequency be the only thing I need to be made sound, made whole? That when I'm not in penetrating distance, I feel like I'm switched off. Like the batteries have been taken out, like I'm ineffective, of no use, faulty, like I might as well be boxed up until I'm with you because there's no purpose for me otherwise. Box me up and pull me out only when you arrive, but let's arrive together next time. You are everything. You are trust, you are honour, you are the warmth and the cold I need in equal measure. You are me in a different dimension. We're together also in others. We are maternally entangled. But what needs to happen here, in this here, in this now? Why does the responsibility of care have to lie with me? I have been given the control, but I don't think I've ever been in control. Not really, but I want to be. But of me, not in control of you, I only dream of being able to protect you like you've protected me. I have no ill intent. I have no ill intent. Okay, slowly. This has to be done slowly. Do you believe you're my twin flame?