Spiritual Awakening: The Ground of Love
You're dedicated to spiritual awakening, healing, and being an emanation of Love for the world. This podcast is for advanced spiritual practitioners: it starts way past where the typical mindfulness and spirituality podcasts stop at. We’re here to jump off the deep end together and explore what it means to live a life of devotion, multidimensional awareness, and truly embodied spirituality.
This podcast is your spiritual sangha through the fields. An invitation back into your center. A multidimensional reflection of who you are and what you’re here for. Inspiration and motivation to live fully in truth. The philosophical friend in your ear as you go through your day. And the warm hug when you need it most.
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EPISODE TOPICS:
Spiritual awakening:
Ego death and surrender. Divine union, true nature. Mysticism and esoteric teachings. Meditation. Energy healing and spiritual healing.
Multidimensional reality:
Living multidimensionally. Cosmic consciousness. Relationship with spiritual guides, Masters, angels, Deities, ancestors. Love and relationship on the soul level.
Embodiment:
"Landing the spaceship": Integration of peak experiences / mystical experiences into daily life. Groundedness. Life purpose, dedication, and service.
Healing:
Trauma healing, deconditioning, holistic healing, somatic healing. Self-inquiry, contemplation, self-care, and personal growth.
Spiritual lineages:
Yoga, bhakti (devotion), jnana (knowledge), Christ Consciousness, Indigenous wisdom traditions, Buddhism.
Spiritual pitfalls:
Spiritual ego, spiritual materialism, and spiritual bypass. What is the true guru or enlightened spiritual teacher vs not?
Spirituality and social change:
How culture, patriarchy, and colonialism distorted spirituality and the New Age movement. Queerness and spirituality beyond heteronormativity, and masculine and feminine polarities.
Advanced work:
Advanced meditation and self-healing. Leading spiritual groups, meditations, and healing circles. Doing healing work for others.
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THE VIBE
Each episode holds a unique vibe and energetic transmission. Whether conversational, meditative, soft and gentle, or piercing and strong, every episode is an invitation Home. Find what matches your mood in the moment.
We’re going past where most people’s spiritual paths get stuck. Together we build the courage, trust, and resilience for true spiritual surrender, and to show up fully for all that Life is asking of us and offering us. We are here for the real deal.
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YOUR HOST
Olivia Frazao is a healer and spiritual guide with deep training in spiritual healing work, energy healing, meditation, clinical psychology, family constellations, and multi-lineage mysticism.
This podcast is inspired by the Yogic tradition, Advaita Vedanta, Tibetan Buddhism, Esoteric Christianity, Daoism, and Indigenous wisdom traditions.
A special bow to Ron Young, Hilda Charlton, Amma (Mata Amritanandamayi), Lorraine DeLear, and all the teachers and masters who make this possible.
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All lineages are welcome. We meet beyond culture and dogma, at the esoteric core that exists in the center of all lineages: Divinity as the ONE, God as Love Itself.
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Spiritual Awakening: The Ground of Love
Trauma and Resilience: Causes, Effects, and How to Heal from Trauma. (1/3, EP7)
Trauma healing, building resilience, spiritual healing, and embodiment. This episode gives a definition of trauma and the cause of trauma, and explains the effects of trauma (disembodiment and the fragmentation of time itself).
It also begins a definition of resilience, which we call spiritual resilience, or the "spiritual warrior" to distinguish it from the cultural misinterpretation of resilience which we could call "toughness", or the "fighter".
This episode breaks down complex concepts into clear definitions and maps to empower you to understand how trauma and resilience work so that you can strengthen yourself.
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1:22 - What is Resilience? The Fighter vs The Spiritual Warriror
7:32 - Cause of Trauma (Stimulus > Capacity to Presence)
10:03 - Definition of True Resilience (Capacity to Presence > Stimulus)
11:59 - Trauma as Disembodiment
14:33 - 2 Qualities of Resilience
18:09 - Trauma as Frozen Time
21:30 - Presencing High Charge in the Body
30:36 - Soul in Body = High Resilience
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Stay tuned for Part 2 which goes in depth into spiritual resilience as the deep process of the soul fully entering the body (through spiritual practice, somatic healing, embodiment practices, etc). This is the process of embodiment which occurs through the completion of the incarnation process (some indigenous lineages relate this with soul retrieval). Deepening our incarnation (our embodiment) gives us the ultimate preventative protection from future trauma.
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Defining Trauma and Resilience:
Here we are looking at resilience as the result of a process of fully incarnating. Almost all of us have had what I'd call an interruption in the incarnational process. We are not fully embodied and not fully in contact with life. There is a gap between the place where we are currently hovering (soul partially out of body), and the fullness of direct experience awaiting us when we land further into the body and the moment (achieving union between Selves and dimensions). That gap (our partial self-absenting) makes us vulnerable to life's events because here we lack the embodied resilience to handle the high charge to the emotions and the nervous system that traumatic events bring. Finding resilience through deepening our incarnational process helps us heal from past trauma and become stronger to face the present and future. This is the spiritual path as a movement towards intimacy with life, rather than a distancing from it.
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Keywords:
Trauma healing, emotional trauma, building resilience, resilience psychology, PTSD, somatic healing, embodiment, IFS, Internal Family Systems.
Meditation, consciousness, esoteric wisdom, nonduality, spiritual awakening, spiritual practice, mindfulness, psychology, embodiment, ego-death, meditation, new age, bhakti, buddhism, christianity, hinduism, indigenous wisdom, energy healing work, ancient wisdom, sangha.
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trauma happens when We are unable to remain present in a certain circumstance because the amount of stimulus coming at us, or that we're experiencing within us is bigger than our capacity to hold it. It's a numbers game. Resilience is increasing how much we are capable of holding or how much we are capable of presencing as it's moving through. So what is this magical resilience? the archetype of the fighter. is What our culture is attempting. Spiritual resilience is not a fighter. Spiritual resilience is stronger than the fighter. Welcome to the Ground of Love. I'm your host, Olivia Frazao. This is a podcast for people who are deeply dedicated to the spiritual journey. You are here for self-growth care, for others, and being of service to the world. This podcast is in service to you to help you remember who you are and why you are here, you will receive inspiration, clarity, and no BS Love. We are walking each other home. Let's begin. What is resilience? What is spiritual resilience? Resilience is the capacity to handle and bounce back from, or heal from difficult experience. So lemme say it in a different way. Resilience is the capacity to maintain presence. During difficulty and or resilience is the capacity to come back to presence if we lose presence in a moment of difficulty. So it's both. It's the capacity in the moment and it's the capacity for healing after the moment. How is resilience possible? First, let's talk about resilience without the spiritual aspect to it. There are a lot of cultural mistakes or cultural myths. Around what resilience should look like. That is what we would call having thick skin, oftentimes that is what we would call being tough. This is where we get"boys, don't cry, toughen up". What we're trying to do, it's a failed attempt, but what we're trying to do is a Broken attempt at building resilience. we're trying to build toughness while not honoring one's vulnerability, sorrow, fear, need, and so forth, What that builds is defendedness. It builds our defenses. It builds walls It builds hardness it builds the capacity for aggression when we feel that we need to fight. All of that is building a fighter that's different from spiritual resilience. Spiritual resilience is not a fighter. It's a spiritual warrior. A spiritual warrior is actually stronger than the fighter, the spiritual warrior, the one who is spiritually resilient. If there is, let's say, a battle between the two, the spiritually resilient one would win. Not only that, but the spiritual resilient one. There's no cost to that success, to that win. When someone is a fighter, when someone gains a false sense of resilience on the cultural level of what we call toughness, there's actually a cost to that. There's a loss for that perceived gain. There's a loss. There's a loss of our wholeness, of our fullness, and of our capacity to be every aspect of ourselves. And what that means is we need to compartmentalize. We're not allowed to feel scared. We're not allowed to feel sad. We are not allowed to look or feel weak. We are not allowed to look or feel vulnerable. Which is basically feeling scared and sad and, thinking that vulnerability is weakness. And so we're going to repress those aspects of ourselves we're going to ignore and not care for those aspects of ourselves and other aspects as well. I'm just simplifying here, in order for only one side of us to become developed and to be the face that meets the world and that the world meets. Now, interestingly, we just created a fighter, but what we really created was someone with one hand tied behind their back. It's someone with, with all of these aspects of the self that are undervalued or actively judged, abandoned, and thus atrophy. And what's left is what you could call this hyper masculine aspect of ourselves that's overly controlling, that uses force to get our wants and needs met. That oftentimes exists in a sense of numbness because we have repressed our vulnerable emotion and thus it's very difficult for us to feel others because we're not even feeling ourselves. So it's numbness towards self and towards others. we are living in this state of the resilience without. The true spiritual resilience. So I'm calling resilience in quotes here of the quote unquote resilience that is this archetype of the fighter. What actually has become valued and what has thus grown and what has become the identity is actually a series of defenses. Defendedness in different forms. It is a construct of the egoic self. It is patterns that have been solidified of the egoic self. Okay? So that's resilience without the spiritual aspect, which I'm calling the archetype of the fighter. And that is what our culture is attempting. Now, first of all, let's look at, if we don't even have that, what do we have? Why is our culture attempting this? Well, if we don't have resilience at all, what our culture is attempting resilience to be, then the fear is that we have no way of defending ourselves, of protecting ourselves, or of fighting for what we want and need, right? So the other side of that is, is this fear of, oh no, what if I'm just vulnerable and exposed? What if I'm just sad and scared and have no way to fight for what I want? So I'm gonna be in lack and scarcity and loss, and I'm gonna be vulnerable to attack, so I'm gonna be hurt, right? So that doesn't work either. So there's something else that's neither of those two things. It's neither that archetype of the fighter nor the archetype of. What you could call the weakling or the loser, There's something else which is spiritual resilience. Spiritual resilience allows for true presence in the moment or the capacity to bounce back and re-find true presence shortly thereafter, or in a way that would be faster or easier than, let's say the average. Now, notice that what I'm calling spiritual resilience is the capacity to either not experience trauma or experience less trauma than you would had you not had this spiritual resilience. Why? Because trauma is created. Okay, so quick pause. Okay. Trauma is not an event. Trauma is the response to an event. So the same event can occur and we can have, let's say, two different responses to it. A traumatic event is an event that caused a traumatic response, but that same exact event would not be called a traumatic event, even if the same exact thing happened if the person's response did not end up being a traumatic response. So it's almost like you can only really call an event a traumatic event once you know what the aftermath was, and then you retroactively label it as traumatic because it depends, it, it's not the identity of the cause. It's the identity of the cause, only in relation to its effect. Okay. So trauma happens when, we are unable to remain present in a certain circumstance because the amount of stimulus coming at us, the amount of charge coming at us, or that we're experiencing within us is bigger than our capacity to hold it. It's a numbers game. Resilience is increasing. How much we are capable of holding or how much we are capable of presencing as it's moving through, as we are exposed to it on the outside and or on the inside. So trauma and resilience they're basically gonna have opposite effects on a graph. If I have very low resilience, I'm going to experience more trauma from a certain event. If that same event happens, but I have a high level of resilience, I'm going to experience less trauma from that event or perhaps even no trauma, or I'm going to heal the trauma that I did experience more quickly and more easily afterwards. So what is this magical resilience? As I said, I explained what it's not what it is, and I'll explain how we get it later. But what it is, resilience is the capacity to stay present even in difficult circumstances, either externally or internally. Difficult circumstances are circumstances that will likely trigger a nervous system. Response of stress. So what I mean by a difficult event is an event where on the inside of us, we're experiencing a high charge, a high energetic charge, high physical sensation of emotion. Stress is felt physically. Anxiety is felt physically. Fear is felt physically, grief is felt physically. Every one of these emotions, anger, rage, et cetera, all emotion is experienced as an energetic charge in the body. It's movement of energy that's happening in the body. It's a density of energy. It's a speed of energy. It could feel like a rock plummeting in the bottom of your belly. It could feel like something shaking you inside your rib cage, it could feel like you're exploding inside. It could feel like you're spinning. It could feel like you're dizzy. It could feel like your heart literally hurts, right? All of these are different emotions. If we got really specific, you could start guessing like, oh, this body sensation reminds me of this emotion. Right now I'm just going straight to body sensation to describe it. What is resilience? Resilience is the capacity to remain present while feeling those sensations in the body, allowing them to be there and allowing them to safely express and move through. The opposite to that, when we experience trauma is we experience overwhelm. There's like a, oh my God, this is too much, and the fuse blows. Just like on your circuit, in your house, when there, there's too many things plugged into outlets and there are too many machines going at the same time, pulling all your electricity and the, and then the, the fuse just goes, oh my God, this is too high of a current. This is too much going on. And the fuse goes, boom, and it shuts the whole thing down. When our fuse blows, when we experience trauma rather than resilience, there is something in us that goes, I can't handle this. And what shuts down? What shuts down is our presence. What does that mean? I, whatever we call, I am usually, well, that's also ar arguable, but just for the, for ease, let's say in a healthy circumstance. Okay? I am usually inside my body. So there's a way to be in the body and there's a way to be not in the body. And this might sound esoteric. And ultimately it is, but it's also something that people can easily grok. People say, oh, I'm in my head, or Oh, I was daydreaming. I was somewhere else. So there's already typical cultural language to kind of be like, oh, there's a way to be really feeling yourself on the deep, on the inside level. Oh, I can feel my feet, I can feel my legs, I can feel my hips. I can feel the inside of my abdomen. I can feel my back. I can feel my arms, I can feel my neck. I can feel my head. I can feel all that from the inside. Oh, I'm here. Or we can feel really numbed out to our body and not feel our body have a lot of difficulty feeling our body. That's what people call not being in their body. So in this case, when I talk about it, it's actually literal. There is a way that we absent ourselves from the here now timespace location, right? That, that, XY center point of time space, it has coordinates, right? When we can't be in the here, now we're gonna go somewhere else. Maybe we can't speed up time. So we have to be in whatever this is, but we're gonna kind of go to a different location so that we don't have to experience what's happening in this moment. So we're absenting ourselves from this location in the time continuum. Like, we're like, Hmm, I'm not doing this one, this five minute period. I'm actually, I'm, I'm actually, no, I'm not living through that. So some aspect of ourselves stays right. Our body is still alive, but our consciousness, some aspect of ourselves energetically, our awareness, our consciousness flies out, and that's called dissociation. Right. We experience it as overwhelm. We might not feel this numb dissociation we might feel, like a energetic whirlwind, because we're, we end up kind of flying around with the energies rather than being in our center. What's our center? Literally our central channel, literally our center, when we lose that, when we lose our center, we might fly around. When you lose our sense of ground, we might absent ourselves. So for resilience, we need center and we need ground, we need center in order to not fly around in the hurricane twirling and twirling around, being overwhelmed by emotional charge. And we need ground so that we don't absent ourselves and dissociate and numb out. And they're not necessarily correlated like those aspects of resilience of centeredness and groundedness. It's not like, oh, I need centeredness in order to not span and I need groundedness in order to not absent myself. I also need centeredness in order to not absent myself. I also need groundedness in order to not spin. So let's just say, you know, two general descriptions of what traumatic overwhelm might feel like, and two general descriptions of solutions both are needed for either of the issues. Okay, so we are going to experience some type of frozen state inside of us later on in life from the moment that we did not presence before. So that's what we call in IFS, internal Family Systems That's what we call parts of us, right? So if someone says, oh, my inner 5-year-old, what does that mean? Why do you have an inner 5-year-old now if you're 40 years old? It's because when you were five there was some moment, likely many, but let's just keep it simple. There was some moment where you're like, yeah, I'm not gonna live through this. And so you absented yourself from that. Let's say those five minutes. I'm using the same example as before. I'm not living through these five minutes. Okay, what's gonna happen to those five minutes? They're pending. They're in your queue. You didn't do that homework. It's still there on your, on your life to-do list, to live through that. It's like, oh, you were coloring in your coloring book of life and you missed a spot. That spot is still white. It's supposed to be colored in by your presence. So you you gotta color in that spot later in life. You gotta, you gotta live what you didn't live when you were five. Now, when you're 40, if you're so willing, and it's gonna wait for you until you do. So, resilience is the capacity to live the moment when the moment is happening. Trauma happens when we don't have everything that we need in order to live the moment when the moment is happening and then it follows us for later, it goes on like a do it later list. And then you're walking around with all these pieces of time from the past that are waiting for you to live through them. And then randomly, if the trauma is big enough, this is PTSD, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. It includes flashbacks. What's a flashback? That moment that couldn't, that was unable to be presenced in an organized way. It keeps repeating itself in weird moments in time. It's like all of a sudden, December 1st, 1997, 2:00 PM shows up randomly in, you're here now, you know, walk to work. Because there was something in that time moment. And in this time moment that's exactly the same as each other. That's called a trigger. It's something that reminds you of it. It's literally, it's like a portal. There's an overlap of some tiny little event. Maybe someone said something in a certain way or you saw someone with a red hat, with a, which associates with whatever happened in 1997.'cause someone there had a red hat and then boom, those time locations just linked with each other and now they're overlapping. It's like time. You think it's linear, it just bent. And now there's two time sections happening at the same exact time. They're, they're superimposed on each other and they're both playing. Now on your walk to work, your walk to work is happening and part of you is still walking. And then December, 1997 is now happening. And that's playing at the same exact time. It's like hearing two songs at the same time. And so part of you is living through your, is somehow still walking and the other part of you is having a complete emotional full on a hundred percent 1997 lived experience right now, and maybe visual as well. So presence allows for us to experience the here now when the here now happens, and then the next here. Now when the next here now happens, and then the next here. Now, when the next here now happens. When we have trauma, which everybody does different kinds to different extents, the issue is that time is not revealing itself linearly. Linear time is always a construct anyway, because the truth is that if you're in presence all the time, you're also outside of time because you're so in this exact point where there's no line anymore. You're just so inside. It's like you entered the dot. And once you dive into the dot, you're actually, you land an infinity. So to be honest, we can actually get rid of the concept of linear time completely. Because if you're in presence, you are in the now so deeply that you're in infinity. Not because you left it, but because you dove into it. Right? But if you leave it, if you're overwhelmed by the present moment and you dissociate from the present moment, that present moment doesn't get lived fully. So now that time it's gonna like. Pick itself up and walk out with you into the future and trail behind you and kind of tap you on the shoulder and be like, what about me? How about now? And sometimes it'll just throw itself onto you, like I just said with the PTSD flashback example. So neither of those look like linear time to me. We are actually living a conglomerate of time sequences in every moment until we clear our cache. Until we heal all of our past trauma that's still inside of us. Okay, so what does resilience look like? I already said this a bit. Resilience is the capacity to stay in our body. While a high charge, an intense charge is moving through our body. That means emotion. That also means thought, but the intensity is actually felt through the, charge that the thought or the emotion brings. It's actually a physical sensation. Our energy amalgamates in a certain way. It coalesces in a certain way. It moves or doesn't move in a certain way, and whatever it's doing, it's painful. That's why I'm calling it a difficult moment, or when I say like a higher intense charge, to be clear, and this is actually very interesting, good stuff. Really, really, really, really good stuff. Also can have a high charge, but it's a high coherent charge. That's actually a slightly different conversation. So let me break that down. Resilience is actually the capacity for either one, for both. So when we think about resilience, we think resilience is the capacity to stay present through difficulty, right? But how am I naming difficulty? I'm naming difficulty as a high charge that's incoherent. Okay. It means there's gonna be an intense experience emotionally, mentally, but especially physically because of the energy of our emotions. And it's incoherent, so it's intense and incoherent, meaning it might feel tight, it might feel like a blast. It might feel like, like some type of, reverberation and none of those feelings feel good. Okay. That's how you know it's incoherent. Also, your emotions are gonna be what people typically consider to be negative emotions, fear, anger, sorrow, or even more intense terror, rage, grief, right? All of those have a somatic experience, a body based experience. They're intense and incoherent. Okay? Now we need resilience for that. As I said, we need centeredness. We need groundedness, and we need some other things too. But I'm gonna keep it simple for now. And now I'm gonna talk about the fact that we also need resilience for the really good stuff. What does that mean? So our day-to-day life experience. Is at, I'm completely making this up, is at, let's say it's a 10 unit range, and we're gonna say that someone's average day is going to be very balanced. It's gonna have equal positive and negative emotion. Equal pleasure and pain. Okay? So let's say that the average person, they're kind of at a net zero, which is a feeling of neutrality. Okay. Some people are always more depressed. Some people always tend to be more joyful. Net positive. I'm just gonna be kind of run of the mill here and just consider someone who just is living in neutrality. Okay? I hope that people can be living in a net joy, but I'm just using this for the example. So this person would have a usual range of minus five to plus five. Okay? Minus five to zero is kind of the typical uncomfortable emotions that they feel, when they get, you know, annoyed by someone or things like that. And then from zero to five, that would be the positive emotions. They feel like, yay, they're proud of themselves, of something they did at work, or you know, their kid did something really cute or whatever. Negative five to five, let's say, is the person's usual range. Okay? Now when I'm talking about high charge, I'm talking about stuff below negative five. It could be a negative 100 or above. Positive five. It could be a positive 100, or even like a negative six or a plus six would already be a little uncomfortable for the person. But obviously 7, 8, 9, the higher the further it goes, either on the plus side or on the minus side from the norm, the more uncomfortable the charge will be in the body, right? So I'm calling both of those a high charge, both of them. One of them is incoherent, as I already mentioned, which is the negative, um, negative six downwards. The other one is also a high charge, but it's a coherent high charge that is plus six upwards. So that is still also a high charge. Some people have a lot of trouble experiencing a high level of joy, excitement. Passion, ecstasy, they end up feeling unsafe in that and having to shut down. And I'm talking about charge right now, but it could also be thought and emotion, right? For example, um, let's say someone has a thought like, oh, I, I really suck at math. They're trying to do their math homework in high school, and they're like, oh, I just really suck at math. That's within the range, that's like a negative one. But let's say they start really diving deep into their, self deprecation and they're like, I suck at everything. I suck at life. I shouldn't even be alive. Whoa. Now that's starting to be pretty hard to deal with. Now we're at way below the range, right? That kid really needs help because there's gonna be a lot of weight in the energetic system. There's gonna be a lot of. There's something that's gonna happen there where they're not gonna be able to presence that level of negativity. They're gonna start feeling like they can't be present in their body anymore or in their life anymore. If you wanna get really extreme with it and not being able to presence something, depression is an example of that. We, we kind of give up. We don't wanna get out of bed, we don't wanna go out into the world, we don't wanna call people. Right? It's an absenting of ourselves from life. Just like dissociating is and numbing out, for example. I'm just naming different examples of not being able to presence something. There are defense patterns that we get into, like, um, addiction, right? Getting drunk every night is a method to not have to presence life. To be able to absent oneself, you're gonna kind of numb out your consciousness. By drowning it in a substance could be any substance, substance abuse. And the goal with that substance abuse is absenting oneself from presence. There are other things that people take, whether pharmaceuticals or psychedelics or other types of substances that can be with the goal and with the effect of bringing people into greater presence. So that's not for this conversation, but to be clear, I'm talking about substance abuse with the goal and with the outcome of, absenting oneself from presence. So now let's look at, a coherent high charge that might be difficult to deal with. Just like I did an example with thought, I'll do another example with thought on the other side. How about, oh my God, he really does truly love me all the way. Like, Let's say you've been wanting, to find a partner your whole life who really, truly loves you, and finally you found that person and here's this guy really, truly loving you, and you're like, oh my God, it's actually happening. You might have a little freak out around that, around finally getting the thing you've always wanted. There could be some unworthiness that comes up, some lack of believing if it's even, too good to be true. Another example of not being able to handle a high charge that's a coherent high charge. Coherent meaning pleasureful and positive. It's being able to. Hold a lot of energy in your body. So it could be being able to hold a high level of Kundalini in your field, feeling that your field has a potency and a fullness, and your body has a presence and a fullness that feels a very high level of vitality. So what if the norm that people could be experiencing? Again, I'm completely making up these numbers. What if people's true potential is actually to live between a 90 and a 100 all the time, not between a negative five and positive five in order for us to be capable of that. We need to be capable of handling a high charge. Now, being able to handle a high charge means that we need to be able to be capable of handling a high coherent charge, but we also need to be able to handle a high incoherent charge. It's the same skill. In order for us to enjoy life, in order for us to experience vitality and not overwhelm or vitality, and not depression or vitality, and not anxiety or vitality, and not dissociation or numbness, we need to learn how to stay in the body because in the body is where vitality lives. Vitality is the body. Vitality is not only our physical health, but the link between the soul and the human. In the exact timespace location, one in the same boom, complete link. Not sort of over here, over there, but a total union. Total union. When there's a total union between the soul and the body, it's like plugging the body in to the soul socket and the soul socket is infinity. And so we feel a level of vitality, a level of physical health and capacity that's way beyond whatever we would get from sleeping and eating and whatever else that we're doing to try to maintain our health because we're getting life force directly all the time now that life force is a charge. When we have that life force, we ourselves are charged up. We have our own charge that's not related to the events around us or to the emotions that get triggered by those events. We have our own coherent charge of our own self. That is filling us. That is filling our body. What's that thing? It's literally us. We are here. Me, who am I? The one speaking right now? The one speaking through this mouth, through this body that one day will be dead. The I that's speaking is the one that won't be dead is the one that will continue, the one that's speaking right now through this mouth, through these human words, borrowing this human body in this human language. Is the one that has been through many bodies and spoken many languages. And when this me is fully here, well then I can deal with anything. I mean, I'm an infinite soul. I can handle whatever it is that's going on in the here now, but the only way to handle it is to actually be here to handle it. And if we're partway here, there's no link that link up. It didn't happen that click between soul and human. It didn't happen. So when the event comes, there's no resource. The human doesn't actually have those reserves of infinite vitality and supply. To be able to call on. The human is like batting on their own out there. The human has very little capacity. And so the human is gonna get blown out very quickly. And this is where, when the human tries to do it by itself, that's what I'm calling the fighter. That's what I'm calling our culture, not understanding what resilience really is. That's trying to like beef up the human by adding some armoring in there. That's really hard. We're so weak. We don't have much capacity on our own. We're dealing with a, prehistoric nervous system. We're dealing with an animal body, that was single celled organism and then became like, you know, a amphibian and then whatever. And then you know, a monkey and then us. I know I'm skipping many steps here in the evolutionary path, but you get my point. The human body. Is an animal we can't really do very much besides fight, flight, freeze if we're operating from the human egoic itself, because we're doing exactly what the animal body was made to do. We need something else in order to respond in a more resilient way than that. Otherwise, that's how we're gonna respond.'cause that's who's running the ship. That's who's available, that's who's here. That's who's actually meeting the moment is our animal self. Obviously we're gonna meet the moment with fight, flight, freeze. Why wouldn't we? That's who's here. So the soul needs to enter completely into the body so that there's a click between soul and human. And then when something comes forth, the soul's like, I got this. And the human's like, ah, thank God. So I'm personifying here. And simplifying here. But that's the main crux of it. The main crux of it is resilience is the outcome, is the result of the incarnation process completing itself. Resilience is the result of a full incarnation and almost nobody is experiencing a full incarnation So I'm gonna pause here. This is the end of part one, and next week we are going to do true spiritual resilience incarnation thank you for being with me in The Ground of Love. You can follow this podcast to receive the next episodes, and who is it that comes to mind to share this episode with? Who Could Benefit? Is it a family member? A friend, a client, a colleague who would be inspired, reminded of what matters to them by being in our energy that we've shared here today. 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