Mystical Misfits with Courtney and Phil
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Mystical Misfits with Courtney and Phil
We are Resilient: A Transformative Year Ahead
What if you could unlock the secrets of profound personal transformation as we step into the new year?
Join us as we unravel the collective desire for change that characterized 2024 and set the stage for a hopeful and transformative 2025. Today, we explore the power of determination and self-belief, emphasizing the significance of taking small but meaningful steps toward achieving our dreams. Discover how maintaining a positive internal dialogue can become the driving force behind overcoming challenges and moving closer to your goals.
Ever wondered about the mysterious force that guides you through life's pivotal choices? We delve into the concept of the "daemon," an intuitive force that helps us make significant life decisions, even when the path seems unclear. We examine how AI tools, like ChatGPT, can become trusted allies in bolstering our confidence and simplifying tasks as we navigate our journeys. Embrace the transformative power of aligning with true values, letting go of what no longer serves, and trusting the inner guidance that shapes our paths toward personal growth and understanding.
Celebrate the spirit of community and shared experiences as we explore the joy of gift-giving and the minimalist lifestyle. Reflect on the profound connection between spirituality, astrology, and personal wellbeing, challenging societal expectations and superficial labels. We highlight the importance of genuine intentions and actions in making the world a better place, encouraging soulful connections and a deeper understanding of our true selves. As the new year unfolds, we set intentions for personal commitment, resilience, and embracing positive change, cultivating seeds of growth and unity in the year ahead.
Happy New Year! Let's make it great. xoxo
Hi Phil, how are you?
Speaker 2:Great Courtney, how are you?
Speaker 1:Good, did you get through the holidays well?
Speaker 2:Yes, I did. It was really mellow and I enjoyed it very much. How about you?
Speaker 1:It was not a mellow holiday, but it was nice. It was a very nice holiday. There was something very sweet about the holidays this year. There was a I don't know. There was a peacefulness, I think, about the holiday, even though it's a very busy time and I was rushing around in a lot of places. I found it very peaceful and I'm very excited that we're here and we're almost at the new year. It feels very open to possibilities.
Speaker 2:I'll say and I'm sure you've heard a lot of talk about the year 2025 and what changes may be in store. So I definitely think that this coming year will be really eventful and will be a year of change. I say that often, but this year 2025 seems like it will live up to that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you know it's interesting because I find that we're all like 2024, it was all about wanting to change. So I haven't really actually listened to a lot of things about 2025, now that I think about it. But but I what I do think is interesting is is that in 2024, it was so much is that people are really wanting to change. People are wanting things to change. They're not content where they are and they want to be. I always say over there already, and I think 2025 people are going to get over there. Right Like people will get closer to where they want to be, over there, right like people will get closer to where they want to be where.
Speaker 1:2024 that was very hard to do, so I do think that I think change is the word of the year. Last year I thought patience is the word.
Speaker 2:I think that's a great metaphor change is the word yeah, yeah, certainly a lot of planets are changing, so that in itself would definitely indicate change.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I think. Good change, I think for the positive. I think that if people are positive and they I was just talking about this with somebody and they I was just talking about this with somebody I think if you're positive and you're very intentional this year about what you want, right and very clear on what you want and very determined to get it, I think then you can change and I think you could make the changes you want where I don't really think last year it was that easy to make the changes. So I am, I'm excited about the new year. I'm excited for the changes that are possible for everybody and for myself as well.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think you hit the key word and that's determination especially with the new moon in Cap, deciding factor, I think. And determination is very personal. It's really a belief in yourself, right? And I don't think for many of us that's something that can be taken for granted. You know, I find myself often coaching myself just to tell myself yes, absolutely, you can and you will and you must. And I know that sounds very facile, almost, but it's important to have that inner dialogue because if I don't have that message to myself, other things will get in the way and distort that message and turn it upside down, so it's the reverse of what it's supposed to be. So it's like an internal prayer you know to be as repeated as often as needed.
Speaker 1:Yes, so what do you tell yourself, like, what do you actually say?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I tell myself, yes, you can do it. It seems overwhelming this task before you. And how will I do it? There's just so many details, things like that, that just cloud my thoughts. But I just break it down and I the thing that I say most often is wait a second. I've done this before. I mean, I'm at the age now where I can say, oh, remember when this and that was really an uphill climb, and now I'm kind of doing it again. The details are have shifted a bit, but of course I can. I know it sounds.
Speaker 1:No, I don't think it sounds. Either you think you can and you can, or you think you can't and you can't. Right, what is that old motto? Right, if you think you can, you can, and if you think you can't, you can't. And how important it is to tell yourself you can I mean many people, or how, even myself, how much I, you know I'm blocked, or I think I'm blocked, and how much it is really just taking. I like how you said, you know small steps, but just taking the first step. You don't have to have the whole thing figured out, but taking that first step, figure it out, but taking that first step. And it's funny because you know it is that that energy of, of climbing a mountain.
Speaker 2:Yes, and if you go back for me, if I just go back and reverse engineer those baby steps in my mind, it is kind of miraculous, you know that all these baby steps add up to something that's so much bigger than all the baby steps in my mind. You know, it's just and it always happens that way. I sometimes think how did I get here? How did I end up doing this, you know? And then I look back and say you know what you? You've kind of exceeded what you thought you would do here, you know, and that's a really good thing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but I think it's like when you want something right, I think when you actually really want something, there's nothing blocking people right, like if people really want something and they're focused and there's people do what they want to do right and the excuse of not doing it it actually is just it's an excuse. It's an excuse but I think that's so interesting because of the wall or the idea that you can't have something is really not true. You can really pretty much have anything you want if you're willing to work for it.
Speaker 2:I don't know.
Speaker 1:Do you agree with that? I mean, that's an interesting question. Do you agree that you could have whatever you want if you work for it, and do you agree that like you?
Speaker 2:could have whatever you want if you work for it, yes, yes, it may not be exactly the way you envisioned it when you first began taking those first steps, but it will definitely lead you towards your destiny. Have you heard of the term called your daemon? No, I know a little bit about it.
Speaker 2:It's D-A-I-M-O-N. It's a Greek word and I believe I understand it as something like your spirit's, like your fairy godmother, your fairy godfather, something like that, that is connected to your spirit and your destiny, and that's why people push themselves Once. Once, when people talk about their Damon, they talk about okay, it spoke to me, it was telling me to do this, and people said maybe you shouldn't, maybe go this way or go that way, but my Damon, sometimes people understand it, sometimes they don't have a word for it, but it's that same energy, inner energy, that bypasses their reason sometimes and compels them to do things.
Speaker 1:I love it, daemon, daemon, daemon, I do things. I love it, damon.
Speaker 2:Damon.
Speaker 1:Damon, I love it. I love it. It's like your intuition, it's your, it's your drive, it's the reason that's I love it. It's maybe it's also like yeah, it's like this, knowing I know the feeling. I mean, I get the feeling all the time. I've never heard it like that right, where it's just like you have to do something. You know you have to do it. You can't question it, you just have to do it.
Speaker 2:Right. And then sometimes, when you reach those certain points, you, you know your daemon resonates. You know it's like that intuition that you feel that says OK, I. It may not seem like the right path at this fork in the road of my life, but I definitely know which way I want to go.
Speaker 1:There's no doubt about it, choosing it right and going forward and trusting and not really worrying about where you're going to get to, but just starting into steps and say, oh wow, that's how I did it. You could see that, but when you're doing it, you know, it's not always so clear. I was thinking about, like chat GBT, because you know I was. I heard someone said that their their mother. What they did is they. She printed out all the information on chat GBT on how to do the holiday dinner and I thought, wow, that was so smart I was. I wrote it all out. I thought about how to do the steps. But hey, maybe that's a really good idea. How do I do a holiday dinner with ease on chat gbt? Who would have thought that? Or want to start something? I mean, right, how do you? I mean, we have all these, this ability through AI to to maybe make the steps a little easier. Actually, it would be interesting to think about that in that way.
Speaker 2:Yeah, there's a million great ways to make it easier. Yes, so it can make it. Can it can make those steps that you want to take probably more possible in your mind. You know, maybe it's not as great a leap as you think it is when you use these tools that we have now.
Speaker 1:Well, what's your leap going to be? What do you think that you're going to leap into this year?
Speaker 2:I really think that I'm headed in a more spiritual, teacher, leader direction, especially with Pluto entering Aquarius and then later not this year but next, whereas maybe it's is it the summer Uranus yes, summer of 2025, uranus enters Gemini. I just think that all the indicators are, and my daemon is telling me you know, this is all the other things are falling away. Philip, all this stuff it's kind of not not your jam anymore, and you know that. So keep pushing forward.
Speaker 1:That's the interesting thing about things falling away Right and people that fall away from us jobs sometimes we lose a job. You ever notice that, like you like a job that you have and you want a job and you think that that's the right job for you, and then all of a sudden you can't control that and you lose the job. Or you're in a relationship and then the relationship ends and so you know, maybe that's also your daemon saying you know that's not good for you and no, it's not up to you, I have no control anyway. It's not up to you, I have no control anyway.
Speaker 2:Right, and my tendency is to hang on to those things when, because it's too the alternative is a little bit too frightening for me. Sometimes you just have to take the leap and go and every time I have done that it's been it's opened new doors, just like they say. You know, it's absolutely true, because you have to make yourself available to these things. And if I'm, you know, I I stayed in jobs much longer than I should have because it was safer for me. You know it was just. You know I was playing within the lines you know and just doing behaving, you know, even though I didn't feel comfortable for the most part and there was so much tension and it took a toll on me.
Speaker 1:You know, but I decided disease right. Like you think about dis-ease and how. You know, if you're not listening to the messages, the, it has a way to make you, our, our, maybe our higher selves or our body somehow we get sick or we get. It has to hurt us. We have to have the, literally have the breakdown, to have the breakthrough and, um, it may be just easier to listen before you know, I don't know what's happened to you and you haven't done. You know, when I don't listen, I it's, it's better I listen. I say it's better that I listen to the daemon, which I never thought of it. I love having a name for it. Right, I call them angels, or I call them spirit guides, or I call it my intuition or my gut. But I love that word. I'm really gonna to, I think I'm going to write it down and like, look at it for the next few weeks, damon.
Speaker 2:So let's spell it again D-A-I-M-O-N and I believe I'm understanding it correctly. But it's it's interesting that all of those things that you mentioned you know spirit, intuition, damon they're all bundled together and they mean kind of the same thing. You know it's. And I think another word is value, and it reminds me of something we had a guest alum visit us when I was still in college and this person said you should really, when you're looking for your career and your first job or your next job, you should. First thing you need to think about is what you value. And I remember it so clearly because I got angry with this person, because I was too young to understand it. I thought he was going to or I can't even remember if it was a man or a woman it I thought he was going to, or I can't even remember it was a man or a woman, but I thought they would give us very practical tips like give us a handout with 10 things to do to get your you know, your high paying benefits parking.
Speaker 2:All I was, that's where, that's where my mind was at, cause I was going to graduate and I needed to focus on these things and I thought what I value you know I just it just hit me the wrong way and now, looking back on it, that was one of the wisest things that anybody could have shared with me, because it's absolutely true. You know, and again it's it's what you value will dictate how you move through life and how you deal with things.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I also think it's so interesting because the same thing is represent, like in astrology, that what you value is correlating with money, right it's. It's very Torian energy, right, and it does seem like at 20 something years old, I don't know if you know what you value.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 1:Right, I don't know if you know what you value. I Right, I don't know if you know what you value. I don't think you're thinking about what you value, but right, what's another way that you could say that to somebody Like what? I guess what would? What makes you feel good? What makes you comfortable? What makes you? What makes you sing?
Speaker 2:Right. That would be stuff you value usually that would be stuff you value, usually Right and you'll, you know. It's like saying you know you'll feel it in here, which is it's hard. I don't think that lands with people the right way, even though I believe it to be true?
Speaker 1:Yeah, it just resonates.
Speaker 1:When you're excited to wake up in the morning, right, I mean that would be something you value Like. If you're excited to do up in the morning, right, I mean that would be something you value Like. If you're excited to do something every day, right, and you know you're not stopping yourself, right, if you have, if you really value something, you take care of it, you're good to it, right, you, you nurture it, you love it. It is very much. It's an. It's an interesting word and I I think I would have been annoyed too at that age, cause I would be like what the hell does that mean? Now I know what I value. I would say love.
Speaker 1:Right, I would say for me, right now, if you ask me what I value, I would say the desire to feel love, and to have acceptance for people and to have little judgment of people and have people not judge me I don't, you know and that would be something I value time. I think I value time with people.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and feeling like I'm contributing in some way in the way that I can. You know I'm not going to, you know, build a hospital, I'm not going to be a doctor, things like that but I do feel like I contribute in the way that speaks to me best. And if I keep listening to that daemon, I'm going to feel even more fulfilled.
Speaker 1:It's interesting, before we hit record, we were talking about marketing, and we were talking not about us marketing which we probably should be talking about that but we were talking about, like, how people market, and I think that's what. What's interesting, right Is even how people market, and what they're marketing to you is like will this product or will this book or will this podcast give you value? Will it, will it? Will it add value to your life?
Speaker 2:Right and that's what we decided. That's why we wanted to do this right, because we both told each other I remember this we wanted to do this because we want to see if we can help people, we can share our beliefs and our experiences and our advice, and our advice in a particular way, that we want to do it right in our, you know, as mystical misfits.
Speaker 1:So we're we're looking at it from a particular perspective yeah, and I think we all yeah, because I think we said how, um, we wanted to make, we wanted to make, we wanted to make people happy, right, we wanted the desire that people could be where they are and they could find a way to find peace and joy and love and somehow we could help them. And how we could help them is because we're very much human that have gone through it ourselves and we've we, we continue to get over ourselves and have the journey. And I think that's kind of when I fell in love with you. I'll say very easy to fall in love with him, not in that way, but I will say I'm sure other people could fall in love easily with you that way, but I did. I fell in love with you.
Speaker 1:You gave a speech about depression and about how maybe if people understood their chart a little bit better, that they might not be depressed. And I thought that's like my whole jam right, like if people knew about their moon and they could take care of their moon and nurture this part of them, they wouldn't feel so sad or so alone or depressed. And I think, oh, and talk about totally a Capricorn word depression.
Speaker 1:And if you're not working hard and you're not doing, you're not climbing a mountain. It could be very easy to feel depressed.
Speaker 2:Right, and I think that I don't want to diminish anyone's feelings or experiences, because I felt all of these things myself but there is an internal power that you can connect to that can bring you calm and peace and joy if you tap into it, because if you're, if you're not tapped into that, then you're completely exposed to everything that is coming at you right?
Speaker 1:so I think you're being, you're gonna have a tsunami. I mean, if you can't, you're not connecting to this higher self right, or this Damon energy, or the energy in general of something besides everything that we believe.
Speaker 2:Or we're told to believe what we're told to believe.
Speaker 1:You know that, like yes, and you're told you're trained very young, right, you're going to go to school, you're going to be smart. You're going to go to school, you're going to be smart, you're going to get good grades. You're going to have to get along with everybody. You have to be nice to people and sometimes you know you can't be so nice to people. Sometimes you know if people aren't being nice to you, you know what are you going to do. You're going to have to not be so nice back yeah, going to do you're going to have to not be so nice back yeah, what we're told to do. But yeah, I do think that we are. I think we go too far away from that, that, that that inner self, that inner knowing, and we're trained to be. I always say I, I I've been talking a lot about this last couple years good people, and I think there's a lie in what, what it means to be a good person.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yes, yes. So I have this thing. I was raised Roman Catholic and whenever I hear people say things like I'm a Christian, when it's not something that is part of the conversation, I always my flag goes up and I think, what is what coded thing that says I'm good, you know, and I just don't, I'm just not? I get suspicious about that because it I mean, if it comes up in a conversation that's part of the flow of what is being discussed, I'll say the same thing, but often, when I pick it up, it's a little bit out of context, you know, and I think that's a little bit Again, code word for saying I'm a good person, which is Not Necessarily the case.
Speaker 1:Oh, I mean, look at the church I. I mean, look at the like we could laugh right about. I'll say we could laugh about priests. I'm not laughing. I'm not laughing about priests, but it's.
Speaker 1:You know, just because you wear, wear the cross or where you know the metaphor of religion doesn't make you a good person, and it's it's your actions. I always say, like, okay, you, I talked about this with my children right, you know, god is, is, is not in a. You could go to church, you could go to temple, you could do all those things and at the end of the day, it's what you're going to choose to do and how you're going to behave and who you want to be, and the only all you are is how you speak, how you respond to people. Are you being the best person you know how to be? And it doesn't matter what label you wear, whether it's a religion or it's political party or anything.
Speaker 1:I, nothing makes you a good person. You either are going to be doing things that are making the world a better place, making the people around you better. You know it's like you're not a Girl Scout, but the Girl Scout rule was make sure you leave something better than when you came. It's such a beautiful. That's beautiful like, yes, you told me, you know. Maybe instead of saying you know my, what my, really, what my religion would be is, you know, I just want you to know I make places better after I leave them. My, that's my. My goal is I'm going to make it better than when I?
Speaker 1:That'd be nice.
Speaker 2:What higher calling is there than that? You know, I think religion is a great way to connect with your higher self, if it's done with the right intention, absolutely Anything. Oh, I think it totally is.
Speaker 1:I mean, I think I think the word God and I think I think the Bible I mean the Bible in general is a very high vibrational piece. I think a lot of churches have singing, I think temples have singing, but I think anything that separates us becomes a problem, and so when religion becomes separating and or or I'm better than somebody because of it, right, that's where I think religion gets to be very, um, yeah, why are you saying it? That's, I think that's the question. Why, why are you saying it like and even noticing why we, why we wear the labels we wear and what we make it mean to us?
Speaker 2:and maybe the labels don't need to be said right, but I think the you know what the meaning is internally. I think that everybody has this unarticulated notion of being in the world, but also observing yourself being in the world. I think people have kind of an understanding of that, but some people are more aware of it than others. I think people who are more spiritually inclined have that muscle, extra muscle, to have more awareness about it. That is, I'm existing in the world, I'm interacting, I'm navigating, I'm in a physical body, I'm doing the things that I need to do to stay healthy and stay connected and all of those things. But there's that other part that's observing all this, which is the spirit, the daemon, whatever you call it, who is aware of the path and the journey that you're on. He's observing it. She's observing it. She's also whispering. You know the intention of okay, you're part of a beautiful mystery. You are earthly and divine. You know this is your story and you are living it, but it's the soul that is the ultimate observer.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I think when you're not when you're supposed to be I hate the word supposed to but where you're, maybe where your spirit guide or your daemon doesn't think it's right, there could be a very strong feeling of sadness, of depression, of upsetness, and so that's also. The whisper is I am not happy. And instead of blaming my circumstances for not being happy, I could really see that I'm not happy. That's not true. I am very happy. But I'm saying that that daemon inside of us, or the spirit guide or this soul, that's really true and really the light in that moment when, when the whisper could be simply I don't feel good here, I don't like how I'm feeling. There has to be a change. That's the whisper, it's. It's not like some man's coming up to you and saying, hey, I'm here and come, follow me.
Speaker 1:The whisper could be the contrast of not really being happy where you are. That that's the gift. I'm not where I want to be. So where, where do I want to go? What mountain do I want to climb? And and sometimes it's a screaming whisper but we don't hear it. And I think there's something truth where you said this in the spiritual person, we could separate ourselves from our circumstances and see and watch ourselves. It's almost like we're watching a movie happening, and is this the part I want to play? I mean it, it's a. It's a.
Speaker 2:It's a nice place to be that you don't take yourself so seriously right, exactly, but I think a lot of people let the noise of life crowd out that whisper, and that's. They're doing themselves such a big disservice by focusing or obsessing about the stuff without having that center, that navigator.
Speaker 1:They're just all over the place. Ok, so what do you mean by the stuff?
Speaker 2:Everything you know Getting a new car. You know getting a new house, or worrying about your car or whatever it may be. I mean the the details of life.
Speaker 1:Yeah, oh good, okay, yeah, the details of life that are they could get. Oh, I thought this was so interesting. So I was talking to someone and they're like, oh yeah, I don't really think about that because I'm just always responding to life. And if you're always responding to life, what life throws at you you really can't create. So I think that's an interesting thing, the idea that if you, if, if you're responding just to the commotion of the chaos of life and the circumstances you're really unable to actually do the Dame do what you're what that that word? You're just kind of checking things off the list and you're not really creating your life. But this year is going to be different. This year we are, we're going to actually we're creating together and we're going to help each other, you know, become more teachers, I'll say, and more spiritual beings. And if we could get out of our comfort zone and be doing this, anyone could do anything.
Speaker 2:That's so true. You're absolutely right.
Speaker 1:Because it's really not so comfortable for us.
Speaker 2:No, it's, it's learning, we're learning.
Speaker 1:Yeah. And it might not be so great sometimes, right, it's an interesting idea of like, well, how do you see, you have to start somewhere, you have to start somewhere. But I think it is interesting to see life and I keep on watching these videos about. I'm blushing, but I keep on watching these videos about like minimizing my life, right, like minimizing the amount of stuff. I have a lot of stuff. I have a book addiction and I have lots of stuff.
Speaker 1:And I thought do you have a book addiction or do you have a lot of stuff?
Speaker 2:I not only do I have books that I've never opened but plan to, but I buy books again, forgetting that I bought them the first time. That's that's it's time for an intervention. I need a book intervention.
Speaker 1:Yes, I think so, I think. I think I think I should try. I can't. Maybe I should go like in order to start a new habit, it's a 21 day things. To start a new habit, you have to go 21 days, and so maybe I should start a 21 days where I don't buy a book. I could put it on my list of like what I want, so that after the 21 days, maybe I'll do that, I think I'm going to do that. I won't buy a book for 21 days and but I can write it on a list so I don't forget about it.
Speaker 2:Well, I'm probably the worst person to give you advice about this, because I want to tell you to completely indulge yourselves when it comes to books. You know, I feel it's like the one, it's like the most ungilty pleasure I think I can.
Speaker 1:OK, so you're thinking.
Speaker 2:I should change that, ok, I like it, ok, okay I mean you, I mean all in moderation, I guess I wish I didn't?
Speaker 1:I also have all books and I have, like the second book and I bought. I bought it two times. So then in we live in florida and I don't know if they have this where you live, but they have.
Speaker 1:These people have boxes yes have boxes in front of their house, and so my daughter's like, oh, I think we should build a box in front of our house. My husband's like, no, no, we're not doing that, somehow more books will come into our house, and I'm like they'd be so nice, because then, if I have an extra book that I buy two of by accident, I could then put in my box and I could say, oh, the universe wants me to give it to somebody yes, I give them.
Speaker 2:I give them as gifts, so have, in fact, I have a few astrology books here, and so I want you a gift, you have to send me your address.
Speaker 1:I bought you a gift because I know I don't know if you're good at receiving gifts, but I saw this and I was like, oh my, and it was on sale. And I'm like, oh my God, I have to get it for you. I'm like, now, aren't you good? You have to send me your address so I could send you the gift hold on I forgot. I forgot that. So, yes, do you have this book. I don't see it can you see it? No, I don't see it it's hold on a second.
Speaker 2:Let me see if I can fix this um there. Do you have this book?
Speaker 1:no, I don't have that book. What is?
Speaker 2:that I'm sending it to you. It's a Tashin book. You know they make these.
Speaker 1:Yes, they're so beautiful. I have the Frida Kahlo book about that, okay.
Speaker 2:This is still wrapped, so I will exchange our addresses.
Speaker 1:Okay, okay, I'm so excited. It's a beautiful.
Speaker 2:It's a coffee table book and I love leafing through it.
Speaker 1:Well, thank you, I'm going to totally receive that and I'm going to send you my gift and we're going to have new gifts for the new year, so yeah, but I've been watching these videos about having less stuff and how, when you can have less stuff, it simplifies, it allows room for more things to come to you. And I mean, I did that whole Marie Kondo thing I don't know if you've ever done that, which is brilliant. Oh, you do know what? That Marie Kondo?
Speaker 2:I do yes.
Speaker 1:And you could have the feeling.
Speaker 2:Yeah, Keep what brings you joy Is that. Is that what she says?
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's, it's so, and I that that book I bought everybody. I think it was like six years ago. I bought it for every teacher, I bought it for everybody, and then it got very big and she had a show. But it's like you could hold things. So you start with your shirts because it's closest to your heart and you could see, and you could just hold it and say, does this bring me joy? And if it doesn't, you let it go and so. But I've been watching all these minimalist things and then every time I turn on the TV it goes to small, tiny houses and I think how the hell do these people do that? And usually they come back six months later and they're happier. Some people are not. You can kind of see, but I'm not getting a tiny house and I would need a whole separate house just for my books. But so you don't think I need a book vacation. I don't know. It's very interesting.
Speaker 2:Well, like I said, I have the same habit. So, and that brings me joy, if I'm adding to my book collection, I just feel there's a feeling of satisfaction I get from doing it. I'm not sure why. And then I tell myself, at least I'm not collecting comic books because I love comic books. But I told myself I wouldn't because I mean I wouldn't have enough room for them anyway.
Speaker 1:So I just, limited to comic books like are worth a lot of money, right, wait, did you used to collect comic books?
Speaker 2:I was kind of almost at nerd level, but I just stepped back from it. I always did love comic books.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they're happy, they're joyful. Yeah, it's interesting to think about what hard work we're going to do in the new year and what discipline we're going to add and what we're going to be determined to do, and I think, anytime there is a new moon or a new year, how important it is to set our intention, and I appreciate that we're doing this and that our intention is actually to make people's lives better. And whether it does or doesn't, we'll just let it up to the universe and we can't control that. But I hope I actually really do hope that we leave the world a better place than we came to it, and that's all we can do. And it might not be how we I always think that's actually interesting is it might not be what you think needs to happen for it to be right.
Speaker 2:We don't always know what, what the world needs to make it better, because our human mind is so small but this you and just being here with you, helps me feel more determined about what I want to do next year. Just this discussion alone is fortifying, so I hope it is for anyone else who listens.
Speaker 1:Yeah, me too, and I thought it was so funny because I feel that way about you as well. As soon as I got on the phone with you, I thought, or on this call or on this video, I thought I feel so at peace. There's a peacefulness of allowing ourselves to take the time and the space to talk or listen and to know that we're all really guided. And what does that mean? And this idea of radical faith that there is something higher and that everything in the chaos is just that, it's just chaos.
Speaker 2:Absolutely right.
Speaker 1:So I thank you so much for sharing time with me and for sending me my new book. I don't even have to buy a book to get it. So I'm going to start today by not buying a book, because the universe is sending it to me, and then I'm going to do this. I don't even have to buy a book to get it. So I'm going to start today by not buying a book because the universe is sending it to me, and then I'm going to do this. I'm doing 21 day. I'm going to okay, I actually am doing this because I do believe books bring me so much joy, but I have so many books that I I haven't opened yet, so I'm going to take 21 days. If now, if this is would be a miracle If I could go 21 days without purchasing a book. That doesn't mean that I can't get books sent to me, but is there something you're going to give up or not do for 21 days?
Speaker 2:Is there something I I can't think of anything that I want to give up, but I'm doing my yoga practice every morning, so I guess it's. I'll just add 21 days to that and just see if I can do it continuously, because staying on that horse for me is quite a challenge all on its own. That's I've been grateful that I've been able to do it, and I want to continue to do it.
Speaker 1:Oh good, I think 21 days. Well, I'll say it may be so easy for you to show up on that mat every morning I talk about, which I don't know if in the yoga you do before we leave in the yoga that you do, this is true and you say namaste. But it was funny because at the end of our last call, I said namaste and it was very intuitive, and I don't. I said namaste and it was very intuitive, and I don't usually say namaste. And then I was listening to something and they were talking about what namaste means. Do you know? It was so interesting.
Speaker 1:It was that that the light in me sees the light in you and by allow, thank you for allowing me to see your light. And I thought, oh my God, I. I felt it was so interesting because we ended our call and I said Namaste, and that's not something I normally say and I do sometimes. And I thought. Then, about a couple days later, I heard what it meant and I thought, wow, thank you for letting me see your light, because it's so easy for us to block it to people and to not let us see each other's hearts, but maybe we should introduce ourselves and say namaste, or maybe everybody should wake up in the morning and say namaste, and realize how there is this light in me and there's a light in you, and that everybody has it. And maybe, if we see each other in that way, maybe we can open our hearts a little more.
Speaker 2:And it's the same light. We're connected that way.
Speaker 1:Can you tell us a little more about that before we leave, because I think there's something so beautiful about that.
Speaker 2:Well, in the Kundalini practice we say Sat Nam, which is just like Namaste, and the closest translation is truth is my name and I recognize the truth in you. I am truth, you're in truth and it's all one. And I see me and you and I. I'm declaring that before you. That's an abbreviated version, but it's along the same lines. It's recognition of a soul to soul connection.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and that our souls know each other. I mean all of our souls know each other, that oneness that we really are one rather than separate. So thank you for that and I appreciate that one too. The truth in me sees the truth in you. The truth Very interesting. It's an interesting word, right, truth. We'll have to sit on that one for the week and that would be an interesting discussion for next time. Right To talk about truth.
Speaker 2:Right, and in this case truth means I guess again it would be a close translation is the oneness. So maybe the oneness would be closer to what that means, because truth, truth has a lot of meanings.
Speaker 1:Well.
Speaker 1:I think what you're saying is is that it, well, the truth? But the truth really is is that we're all really good, we're all really love, we are all really kind, we are all really perfect, Just the way we are, just the way we are, and that our world maybe hits us or society hits us. There's things happen to us and we really forget that truth and we forget our oneness and we forget our perfect perfection. But when we have moments where we remember, we remember it is what a blessing. It is really that that is the truth, that we're all perfect right now. And if we could allow ourselves to appreciate that for just five minutes, people would say the truth is. They would say I'm in disillusionment, yeah, but thank you, I. I appreciate you so much and I appreciate what a kind soul you are and I'm so excited to hear about your 21 days of practice. Do you always go 21? Do you usually take a break for a couple of days, or is this a new thing where you're going to go 21 days straight?
Speaker 2:I do 40 days. So I'm I'm coming up to the end of my 40 days and I was planning to do another 40, but I'll just do 21 yeah, I like it.
Speaker 1:I like it well, thank you. Thank you so much and I look forward to hearing how you're doing on that 21 days and i'll'll tell you how I buy. I'll let you know after day seven if I do it by a book. I will tell you the truth. Okay, great, have a really good week. Yes.
Speaker 2:And happy new year. Of course it's going to be great.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and happy new moon and happy new, happy like a new beginning. What seeds are we going to plant?
Speaker 2:we're going to be strong and determined and we're going to set our intentions and and move forward with good intention yeah and not.
Speaker 1:It's interesting. Right, and not get toppled by the waves. Learn to surf the waves that do show up have courage, so I look forward to speaking to you soon thanks, courtney thank you.