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Claim Your Awesome
Seeing the Signs Guiding You to Your Highest Self
Today I'm sharing a conversation inside of my free Wildly Abundant Women group! This episode is all about setting intentions and seeing the signs that are guiding YOU to your highest potential. With this eclipse season guiding each and everyone of us to our true north, to our highest potentials, this is the conversation you need to hear so you can align with your soul's purpose and begin to see the signs that affirm you are on the right track!
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Hello, welcome back to Claim, your Awesome. I'm so happy that you're here. I'm deciding to do something a little different this week. This is kind of an impromptu episode for this week and in my weekly free group, zoom, wildly Abundant Women, I love to share practices and insights on just a variety of topics, and what we talked about this week is how to really start to see the signs that you are aligned with your highest potentials, and I loved this talk today and I'm sharing it on this week's podcast. I hope you get something out of it. If you do, and if you want to be in community and connection with other women who are on a similar journey, deepening into their soul's work, into their purpose, creating more joy and abundance, I'd love to see you inside of Wildly Abundant Women. I will leave the link in the show notes and I hope to see you there.
Speaker 1:Now on to the episode. Good morning, I'm so excited to share this time with you today. Good morning, I'm so excited to share this time with you today. Thank you for being here and for taking this time for yourself, because that is huge. It is huge when you really give yourself permission to just be and to just align with whatever your soul wants you to do in this moment, whatever it wants you to hear, whatever it wants you to see right. And we cannot do that when we're constantly on the hamster wheel, feeling like we aren't doing enough, feeling like we constantly have to push harder and do more. So, again, honor yourself and celebrate yourself for saying yes to yourself and again giving yourself this time. I really want to make these calls super jam packed with so much goodness in 30 minutes because, again, I do know that our lives are very full. I want you to be able to digest this information in a way that feels really good for you, in a way that can resonate with you without feeling like you're putting other things on the back burner. You know to sit on a call with me for an hour every week, so take this with you. You know. Send out the recording, take the recording with you.
Speaker 1:I always love to listen to podcasts and recordings and things like on my way to and from dropping my kids from school and just fitting these moments in my day, because I find that it just really grounds me and it feels so good and nourishing for me and my soul. So let's start with a little grounding meditation, such a great practice to start your day in this way, every day, right, whatever way feels good to you. So if you're not driving, I invite you to go ahead and just lower your eyelids, if that feels good. Take in a nice deep breath in through your nose and exhale. Take another deep breath in through your nose and, as you exhale, just fully allow yourself to arrive in this moment. Take another deep breath in through your nose and, as you exhale, notice any tension in your jaw, in your neck, in your shoulders. Just breathing into it, not judging it. Notice any tension in your jaw, in your neck, in your shoulders. Just breathing into it, not judging it. Seeing if you can just relax even 5% more. Take another deep breath in through your nose, exhale, exhale Again, knowing that this is where you need to be in this moment.
Speaker 1:There's nothing else that needs your attention. It is okay to be here. And as you just go ahead and breathe rhythmically, I want you to connect to the space in your body, just slightly below your belly button. Consider this your womb space, whether you have a womb or not. Just noticing this space, noticing that this is a source of your power, right, feeling into that, even as I am bringing your intention and your awareness to this space. Notice how it starts to feel. Maybe it starts to feel warmer. Maybe it starts to feel warmer. Maybe you just notice your own sense of power there, breathing into that, connecting to that, letting that warmth, that source of power, whatever else is coming up for you, just letting it grow, letting it expand through every cell of your body, breathing in and, as you're here, just simply set an intention for yourself. This could be anything, anything that's been on your mind, maybe something that just intuitively, is coming up for you in this very moment. Again, knowing that nothing is by accident. Anything that wants to come up in this moment is here for a reason. It's always to serve your highest good. Just sitting here for a moment, and when you're ready, you can go ahead and open your eyes. Okay, beautiful. So today we are talking about seeing signs of your highest purpose. This is so fitting for where we are in this eclipse season. I want you to know and really feel into. This eclipse is all about transformation. It's all about new beginnings.
Speaker 1:Over the last couple of weeks, you might have really felt this need to shed, to purge, to release right. It could have shown up in your physical environment. I know a couple of weeks ago I was really like taking the things to goodwill and getting rid of stuff and I was really feeling that energy. And then last week I was like I was depleted. I took a nap in the middle of the day, which I rarely feel the need to. I was joking with a peer and a friend that I almost felt like I was in my first trimester of pregnancy again. I was just so uninspired, unmotivated. It was the strangest thing for me.
Speaker 1:And then, literally on Sunday, I started to like have this renewed sense of energy, these crazy new, wild ideas and insights and shifts coming through. Coming through in a way and I'm getting goosebumps even talking about it coming through in a way where it was like my conscious mind, I couldn't have thought these things into action, if that makes sense. It's like they came from a deeper part of me. They came from a deeper knowing that lives inside of me, that also lives inside of you, that you also have access to, and it's so beautiful. And this is where it's really so important during this time to follow what feels good, right, maybe you're really feeling like being in action and amazing, beautiful. Follow that. Maybe things still feel kind of slow, maybe it feels like there are all these ideas and things happening, but you haven't quite formulated or gotten complete clarity around what that looks like. That's also okay, right, it's all going to show up a little bit differently for all of us, depending on where we are in our own journeys and what we're really being called to step into.
Speaker 1:So, in addition to this transformation and this idea of new beginnings, it may also look like pivoting, right. You may have, you know, if you're an entrepreneur or you're a coach or you're in this space in some way, you may have, like a very strong urge to pivot your business in a new way or do something differently. Right, and that's not accidental, okay, it's not accidental. So this is why it's so important to share this with you today on this call and really talk about seeing the signs that are guiding you to your highest purpose, to your highest potentials, because this eclipse season, that is the goal, right, it's not just about pivoting and new beginnings and transformation for the sake of something you know fun and to mix it up, right, not saying that it's not ultimately fun and enlivening and exciting and life-giving, right, it's really ultimately for you to step into your highest potentials.
Speaker 1:And I was having a beautiful call with a client the other day and this really has been such a theme with the women that I work with, where it's not just about the success anymore, it's not just about the money anymore or the freedom, or the balance or whatever we thought it was even just a year ago, maybe even just six months ago. There is something deep inside women collectively, the women who are allowing themselves, giving themselves permission to feel this, to let it bubble up and see what comes of it, where we want to see exactly what we're capable of. We want to see what magic we can bring to life, what magic lives inside of us and how we get that out and flowing through us in our lifetime. It's so much bigger than success. It's so much bigger than the career you're building. Yes, maybe that's a part of it right. But it doesn't even have to be right. If you are someone who maybe you're not even an entrepreneur but you're just really interested in deepening into your own soul's gift, right. It doesn't have to be through an entrepreneurial path or through some sort of vocation or career.
Speaker 1:Oftentimes we confuse or make purpose and work go hand in hand, and I want to be really crystal clear that that is not always the case. However, when you are following your purpose right, maybe it's something you do on the side, maybe it's a way you volunteer, maybe it's a way you show up for your family whatever that is for you, however, that feels for you. When you are following that, everything else gets easier. Everything else gets more pleasurable, right, even if you have a job that maybe you don't love. When you are following your purpose in other ways, other things shift and change. Right, maybe you get a job that you do really enjoy right, even though maybe it's not like your life's purpose or life's work, you really enjoy it and it opens up more space for you to follow your purpose in other ways. Okay, so feel into that if that feels true to you.
Speaker 1:So I really want you, during this time, to take time to get still, take time to be quiet, take time to be quiet, take time to connect to that space just like we did in the grounding practice when we started and see what information, see what wisdom, see what insights, see what ideas and thoughts want to come up for you. Sometimes these thoughts seem completely illogical and you're like what in the hell is that? But again, I promise it's here for a reason. It wants to show itself for a reason, and this is the part that is so important. I want you, when you have these insights, I want you to just journey through that a little bit. I want you to allow yourself to really see how that feels in your body. I want you to see does it feel light? Does it feel good? Does it feel exciting? Does it feel light? Does it feel good? Does it feel exciting? Does it feel expansive?
Speaker 1:Right, sometimes there is an underlying moment or feeling of fear, or discomfort, or discomfort, but it's not because it's bad. Maybe it's because that feels really big. That feels really big and while it feels expansive, it also feels like holy cow. How am I going to do that? Or, oh my gosh, that feels crazy. Right, but when you can release the judgment if there is any, if there is a judgment or a fear or something that's like a fear or something that's like, how am I supposed to do this? When you release that, what is still left? Is there still that feeling of like, oh my gosh. I can't explain it, but I'm meant to do this, I'm meant to follow this more. Maybe that picture or that vision isn't even fully formed yet, but you know that you need to enter into it, that you need to look for the breadcrumbs and take one step at a time and see what reveals itself Again. Sometimes it doesn't logically make sense, but you feel it and I know you've had this before.
Speaker 1:And so often we dismiss this right, we dismiss this it's. I don't have time for that, I can't make that my priority. I'm not right, but again, this eclipse season is calling you. It's inviting you to give yourself permission. It's inviting you to say yes, even when it feels scary, even when it doesn't make sense. That is what is meant for you. So, again, just taking that time, discern how it feels.
Speaker 1:Again, releasing the judgment, even if you can't. This is a good practice. Even if you can't completely release the judgment, can you simply see the judgment, see that there is a judgment, right, because sometimes it's really hard to release, to let go of the fear or whatever's coming up for you. But instead, when you can just simply name right, and we can simply bring awareness to and name oh, there's a judgment there that I have. Hmm, that's interesting. I'm I'm feeling a sense of fear. I wonder what that is right. The second we get curious. The second we name it, the second we bring our attention to it in a way that doesn't allow us to get absorbed by it. It doesn't feel as heavy, right, and that's like instantly starts to help you ultimately in that releasing process, even if it can't happen in heavy right, and that's like instantly starts to help you ultimately in that releasing process, even if it can't happen in this moment or in the moment that you're sitting down and doing this work.
Speaker 1:Again, then, giving yourself permission to say yes to what feels true, right, this is huge because, again, during that time of of discernment, when you're just seeing and playing around with how this feels, you don't have to say yes to everything, right, sometimes, sometimes, when you have an insight around something and you're just like no, that definitely isn't for me, right, you can feel like it's not fear, it's not judgment, it's like you're just like disinterested, maybe. Right, so, just again, tapping into your body, your body has the inner wisdom and that is what is so powerful and so important is really trusting that and and allowing that to guide you through this. Can you decide in this moment to say yes to it, can you decide to give yourself permission? The second you decide, the second you make that choice, the second you say yes, even when it doesn't make logical sense, things will begin to shift. Things will begin to shift and this is when we begin to get the signs that we're looking for. You know, whether we ask for the signs or not, now that you've made this decision, now that it's in your internal awareness, you will get the signs. You will get the breadcrumbs that will allow you to start to move in the direction that your highest self is really inviting you to step into. So this is where it really gets so fun, and I know that you know. Today we're really talking about stepping into your highest purpose.
Speaker 1:But this also works with manifestation, right, like it all goes hand in hand. It's not separate, it's all just these beautiful practices and ultimately, in the simplest way, it is listening to yourself. It is listening not to the mind, right, it's going in, listening to the inner wisdom that you have, and that is really the easiest practice and the simplest practice you can do to profoundly change your life. Right, it all starts within, and I know there are tons of avenues and ways that we can access this information and it's all beautiful and fun, right, such as human design, which I love, astrology, which I love, right? All of these things I love them. Tarot reading and psychic readings All of these things are beautiful, and it can be just as simple as you going within and really giving yourself that space and time to listen to what is true.
Speaker 1:Okay, so this is when those ideas and insights or thoughts will present themselves to you as little nudges of information, and for me, I find that it's simply affirmation that I'm on the right path. And I want to also say that, even if you are not initially seeing these signs, it doesn't mean you're on the wrong path. Simply always going back to what feels true to you, what feels good to you, are you saying yes? Are you really fully surrendered to, like how all of this is going to work out for you? But you're so trusting in the fact that it is always working out for you, right? When you act and live from that place, you can't go wrong, and inevitably the signs will show up in one way or another, right, and sometimes they're really surprising and unexpected.
Speaker 1:Sometimes it's through a conversation with a friend or a post that you see on social media. For me, that's really where it has been, which has been super ironic. Earlier I mentioned how last week I was super depleted and just felt like I could not get it together. I really I wasn't showing up on social, I had zero energy and yet some of the thoughts that were coming up that felt so new that I wasn't seeing other people kind of in my community starting to talk about I started to see. I was like, yes, there's something to this and I'll you know I'll share more about all that later. I'm like I said, I've had a lot of new insights and things come up for me and I'm so excited to explore, but I'm still in this process of how this all looks and allowing this to kind of come to fruition before I really start sharing about that for me. So stay tuned. But just knowing, like again seeing some of these thoughts, like some things that have felt so new and kind of out there, I'm like, okay, there's something to this. I have to keep following that Right, and again, with manifestation it, if you've I don't know how much I've gone into this on some of the, on some of my podcast episodes.
Speaker 1:I'm sorry, just trying to think quickly. But right, when we, when we bring things to our attention, we set intention around things that we want to manifest right, we activate that reticular activating system in our brain and we start to see it right. So it's again. It's all the same thing. And really I had this thought this morning that I hate the word woo, and I am just on this new mission to dispel this idea of woo, because really this is the magic and the power that lives inside all of us.
Speaker 1:And when you remember that, right, there's a lot of talk around like waking up to this, and I guess there is this level of waking up, but it's remembering, it's coming home to that that has always been available to us, but we just live in this very modern age where we haven't needed that as much. We've lost touch with that. And when we stop judging things as being woo or judging things as something that someone else can do but we can't do, we're continuing to give our power away. And I want you to take your power back. I want you it's not even taking it back, right, it lives inside you. I want you to access that, I want you to come home to that. I want you to remember that and the second, you remember that and start living from that place, from that magic that's there, from that power that's there.
Speaker 1:You realize that none of this is woo right. You realize that this is how we are meant to go through the day, this is how we are meant to live, by accessing our own internal wisdom. Right, it doesn't mean that everything's perfect all the time. Right, it's about being in the flow of life, the good and the bad, right. When we're riding the wave or when it's smashing us, you know, in the sand below. Right, it's all part of it. There's always learning and lessons and wisdom to be gained from all parts of it. We can't grow without the dips, right. We can't really enjoy the roller coaster, right, without having those highs and lows. It's all part of it.
Speaker 1:So, again, it's like can you just come back to this part of yourself that knows this is how all of the women for millennia have lived before you? Let's remember that. Let's bring those practices back to our daily lives, and it's so much easier. It doesn't take time. It doesn't take hours of sitting in your bedroom with crystals and this and that Again, a beautiful practice if that's what you're into. But it gets to be easier, it gets to be whatever you want it to be, right, it gets to be whatever feels good to you, because all I want for you is for you to access that part inside of you and then look for the evidence, right, look for the signs. It's not even about looking right, like when you're just there, the signs just come to you, but now you're not on the hamster wheel anymore and you freaking see the signs, right, you're not like looking for some shinier sign.
Speaker 1:I love that, like when we want a sign and we get the sign and then we were like it's not a big enough sign, and I find that that is simply because you're just, you're not giving yourself permission to say yes to it. Right, you know that you need to do something, but you're not giving yourself permission to freaking decide. You have to decide the second, you decide the second, you choose. Everything shifts, right, everything shifts, but that can be the hardest part and only you can give that to yourself. So give yourself that permission.
Speaker 1:And if you're not giving yourself permission, do the deeper work, right? Why am I not? What is still here? What is this block? Where is the resistance? What do I need to release? Right, and then just allow those signs to come in and I promise you you will see the breadcrumbs or the nudges. Wherever you need to move next, wherever you're being pulled towards, wherever you need to take that next step or that next action, it will come to you, I promise. Be open to receiving that, be open to allowing that, be open to receiving that, be open to allowing that. And again, like open your eyes right, open your eyes and really see it when it comes to you, because it will and it will come to you in the most unexpected ways. It'll come to you in the you know it will come to you when you're not expecting it to be there, and that is so fun.
Speaker 1:And the second you do this, the second you really start getting into this work for yourself, the second you start embodying this and living this way, you realize the power that you have, you realize the magic that lives inside of you, because you're like, oh my gosh. You know, the other night I asked to have a dream about something. If it, if the specific thing that I'm working on behind the scenes is for me, and if it's like the path that I meant to to go down, and I did, and it was incredible and I was like, oh my gosh, I don't do this enough. I don't ask you know for these signs in my dreams enough. I don't remember that happening before. Maybe whatever I had asked for wasn't for me, who knows, but it was just like oh my gosh, the information, the wisdom, the knowledge, whatever you need, it lives inside of you. It's already there, all right.
Speaker 1:So give yourself permission, ask for what you want and then start to notice where the signs begin to point you right, even if they're so subtle especially if they're subtle, because sometimes we're tested right Like do you really want this? Are you really ready to see this? So, even when the sign is super subtle, saying yes to that, recognizing that, bringing awareness to that, noticing and claiming it as a sign, will allow for more signs to come, will allow for bigger signs to come. Okay, and it's truly, it's like it's so freaking fun, it's so beautiful, like it's so freaking fun, it's so beautiful. And again, you can just trust in knowing that it's all for your highest good, for your highest potential. So again, we're right about 30 minutes.
Speaker 1:Thank you for joining me. I'm so excited to see where this takes you. I'm so excited to see what you're saying yes to this eclipse season. I'm so excited to see the transformations that are in store for you as you step into your highest potentials. It's available to you and go after it. It's yours, it's already yours. All right, have a beautiful day. Thanks for joining me and I'll see you guys next week.