pouring from an empty cup

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Stop pouring from an empty cup. Your cup was never meant to be empty. Your cup innately is not empty. Your cup overflows with love, with purpose, with passion, with peace, with prosperity. Your cup overflows. So it's time that we figure out where the leaks are in our cups that have convinced ourselves that it can be drained and realize that the leaks aren't really anything at all. The leaks are what we convinced ourselves were stronger than the divine power, the divine purpose when within us, when really they cannot compare, they can't compare. You were never meant to be an empty cup. You are not an empty cup. Your cup overflows when you are aligned, when you are authentic, and when you step in intuition, when you step in faith, when you step in love, when you step in joy, when you step in peace, and sometimes we just overwork ourselves mentally, when it really doesn't take all of that. We convince ourselves of a certain way, a certain type of way of doing things. The misalignment is blatant and it's large and it's causes shame. It causes confusion. Why are we doing it? What's the purpose? Your cup is not meant to be empty. You are worthy of a full cup. You are worthy of peace. You are worthy of love. You are worthy of joy. And I think personally, me in the past, one of the big leaks that I put in my cup, because the divine did not put the leak in my cup, it was something that from my life, from my misunderstandings, from my own ignorance, I put those leaks in my cup. And for me, it was for some reason I believed that my blessings weren't solely, that my blessings do not belong with me. And now I can say, I believe when you are blessed, it'll align with where that is meant to flow or your energy is meant to flow. But me in the past, I would be blessed and my energy would just be quite literally open. I would give, give, give. I believe that because I had it and somebody else didn't have it, if they asked for it, then it was my job to give it to them. And it was never my job to fill another person's cup. That is not my job. That is not your job innately to fill their cup. For they are sustained just as you are sustained. And for some reason in the past, in my sustainment and my joy, I felt as if it within me wasn't its home. When that is not true. Within your soul is love, is joy, is happiness, is prosperity, is passion, is peace. And I'd convinced myself that that home was not within me, so therefore I emptied my own cup. I put that leak in my own cup, and anytime something would come in, it would go out. I did not have the respect that my resources deserved. I did not have the respect for my being, for my prosperity, for my peace. I did not respect it, so therefore I gave it away so willingly, so freely. I gave away my peace, I gave away my prosperity, I gave away my happiness, I gave away my love so freely because I did not realize and I did not believe that it's home is within me, and it was meant to be cherished, it was meant to be honored, it was meant to be respected. And in the energy exchange of life, it will be respected, it will be mutual and it will be deserved, and it will feel like home when interacting with another, when giving my energy, I will also be receiving the energy and giving my love, I will be receiving love. It is meant to be a beautiful, harmonious thing, and I did not, I did not realize that. So therefore, I went through a lot of situations and I was left feeling drained. And the purpose of it, I believe, was to make that big flashing light of, hey, babe, something's not right here. Get to the root of it, fix it, realize that when you feel drained, that is not your natural state of being. You are not meant to be drained. You by nature are overflown. Your cup overfills. So when you are feeling drained, there is a misalignment, there is something there. There may be a leak that you need to plaster. There is something there. And in the past, I got into the toxic positivity of it all, that everything happens for a reason that by nature I'm going to have all that I need. And I do believe those things, but in the past I did not realize what by nature was. By nature is not sitting in your bed all day. By nature is not just going like this to your passions, to your life, to your prosperity, to your peace. It's not doing it all willy-nilly. It's living a life with passion and purpose. That is your nature. Intentionality is your nature. Your nature is not static, it is beautifully dynamic. And everything happening for a reason, it does not mean that you had to experience that thing. Like no matter what you had to go through that relationship, no matter what you had to experience debt, no matter what you had to anything, any experience in your life, no matter what, you did not have to go through that, but because of your ignorances, you were led down that path so that you had the opportunity to learn and to fix it, if you get what I'm saying. Like you could have, and this is not to say be hard on yourself, it's not to say that, but it is to say that your intentionality is important. You can live in a life cycle of the same life for the rest of eternity, or you can learn now, or you can decide to shh, what is it? Or you can decide to shower yourself of your ignorances, you can decide to be intentional with your ignorances, not out of a place of self-hate, but out of a place of self-love. Like, oh, in the past I did not realize that I was being so ignorant in that belief. I did not realize that I was being lazy in life because of I realized the blessing of my sustainment. I did not realize back then how being comfortable in a draining love, what that was doing to my mentality. I did not realize that back then. I knew it didn't feel right. In those moments, you feel, I believe we all feel in our intuition when something is just not right, whether or not you've buried that intuition far down, or whether or not you're just simple, simply in a fearful state. You do not realize your love, you do not realize just how sustained you are, but we know, we know when it's and it's a it's a learning on how to trust yourself, how to trust the divine, and it's in that you have to give yourself grace. And at the same time, with the grace, you also have to give yourself the beautiful gift of loving transformation, of intentionality and faith now. For you did not know then what you knew now, and because you did not know then what you know now, you had to go through those cycles to realize it. And now that you're grasping it, grasp it. Don't turn a blind eye to your life. This is your life. And something I think about is you can either start now or you can start in 50 years. But I think I would rather start now. I think you should rather start now too, because everything truly is working out in your favor. It truly is, whether it's working out in your favor to try and push you closer and closer and closer to stepping into your freedom, or whether or not it's working out in your favor as you are aligned and you are authentic, and it's time to step into your authentic destiny. It's time to shine, you are ready to shine, you're deciding to shine because your cup overflows always. Your cup is always overflowing, and it's up to you on whether or not you let it. And that's the truth, I think, that it's hard to grasp sometimes. It's hard to grasp just how powerful you are, just how powerful I am, just how powerful you are in your life. You can decide if you're gonna stay stuck in a cycle or if you're gonna wake up to your authentic, aligned self that is not duplicate to any other. It is yours, it is your purpose, it is your passion, and in it, you are divinely sustained and you leave behind the fear-based mindset. It doesn't mean you don't feel fear, no, but it means that in fear you decide to take it as an opportunity to exercise your faith and to be in awe and how everything always works out better than you could have ever imagined. To stop limiting God, stop limiting the divine, stop putting yourself in a trap and tying yourself to another person and believing that you have to sustain that person. You have to be there to for them to be okay, you have to help them, whether it's financially, whether it's with your love, whether it's with guidance. You're tying them, you're tying yourself to their destiny and you're kind of making yourself God in their life. As I say, don't make another person God in your life, don't be God in another person's life. They are meant to feel that same source within themselves. And when you deny the truth in the situation, that is that whisper of it's not my place, and instead you say, you know what, this is my place. I'm gonna drain myself and I'm gonna give them everything and I'm gonna do this. You're not only just denying your purpose, but you're denying their purpose as well, and you're pulling them how to say this. Hmm. You're pulling y'all both, you're pulling y'all both, y'all both enter into this little kind of trauma loop in a way, of just frozen in time. Frozen in time, because you are not meant to be God in another person's life. You cannot teach them what they are meant to learn. Only God can do that, only divine can do that, only their path can do that. And when you deny them the lessons that they're meaning to learn, you don't realize that then you're gonna enter into a new loop that you probably didn't have to enter in. When now you're learning how to let go and let God. So therefore, you're gonna start losing, not losing, but I'll say it, yes, sure, losing. You'll start losing the resources that you were giving to them because you're not meant to be giving them those resources in the first place. If your resources are not respected, they will be diminished until you they come to a spot where you can respect them, where you realize, oh, I don't feel love, I don't feel happiness, I don't feel joy, I don't feel prosperity, I don't feel safe, I don't feel secure. You start realizing these little, you don't have you don't have more than enough anymore. The wiggle room is gone, your cup is empty, and therefore you can't give it to another person because now you're meant to learn the lesson again of I have to respect, honor, and value my resources. I have to respect, honor, and value my light. I cannot give without first being aligned. If you're giving from a place of misalignment, you're draining. You're draining, you're not giving, you are draining, you are self-sabotaging. Come to a space within yourself where you can feel the intention in any and everything that you do, for there is intention in any and everything that you do. Spirituality is not just prayer, spirituality is not just a church, spirituality is not just a rule book, spirituality is your life. What you eat, what you watch, what you say, what you think, how you treat your body, how you treat yourself, how you show up, how you show up. If you are an active force or a passive force in your life, that is developing seeds in your mind, whether they're seeds of doubt or there's seeds of faith, seeds of love, seeds of hate, whatever it is, you are deciding the polarities of your life based on your passion, based on your purpose, based on what you do. That is spirituality. Therefore, you have to be eventually you realize misalignments aren't worth it. Misalignments are not worth it, no matter how big, no matter how small. It's not worth it. It's not worth your energy and me, even personally lately. I'm probably gonna do a whole other podcast on that, but I realized how in life I was doing like a princess mentality instead of like a queen mentality of realizing I am powerful. I don't want to be a passive force in my life. I don't want to just be sitting here and saying, you know what, it'll arrive. Let me just lay in bed all day and whatever I need, it'll just come to me. What's the point of that? What's the point of denying myself the experience of my authentic expression? What is the point of waiting around when I can be moving in faith? It's up to you how. It's up to you when you are ready to step up to the plate. But I pray that it is sooner rather than later for you. And I don't even pray for that in like I'm scared for you type of way, but I pray for that because you are worthy of authentic, aligned expression. You are worthy of experiencing the life of your dreams. You are worthy of it. You are, and it's quite literally just realizing that you have all that you need. And in knowing that, what are you gonna do with that truth? For if you have all that you need, would you entertain all that you don't need? No. You would express it openly that you have all that you need with your actions, with your words, with your the people in your space. You would you would express it for what you accept is what you're telling yourself that you deserve. Be more conscious with what you are telling yourself that you deserve. Be more conscious of your energy within you. Be more conscious of what feels aligned and what feels misaligned. And if you can't even like feel that, prayer, go to prayer, and it doesn't have to be a specific religion, it can literally be meditation, going somewhere quiet, finding your source and allowing it to fill you up. You are not the sustainer, you are sustained, you are sustained, and that is something that is worthy of immense gratitude. If I could say anything to me five, ten years ago, I would say you are sustained, but you have to respect it, you have to honor it, you have to value it, you have to be in a space of pure love with it and understanding for when you don't respect your resources, your resources don't feel like home with you. Like it's like a you have to match the frequency of it. You have to be a you have to be just as open to being overflown as the openness is coming to you. And I would say you deserve peace, you deserve prosperity, you deserve love, you deserve the most purest form of love, you deserve alignment and authenticity. You do not have to convince yourself to settle. You are not meant to settle. Your cup overflows. You can't even imagine how beautiful your life will be when you go to a place of authentic expression and alignment. You can't even imagine how quite literally blessings, miracles, and wonders surround you because when you put your faith in the divine and love and purpose and God, you will always receive more than you could ever dream. There is more than enough for all of us to be sustained, for all of us to be in a space of love and a space of peace. But in order to help the collective, you have to start with yourself. You can't drain your own cup and then try and help another before helping yourself. You have to find your source, find your root, and allow yourself the blessing of feeling it, of going to it, even in doubt. You don't have to be a hundred percent sure. All you have to do is feel it, be open to it, allow your cup to be overflown. Stop emptying your cup, stop cutting the bottom off your cup so it just goes straight through and decide I am surrendering to my cup being overflown. And it's so funny saying that. I say this all the time. It's so funny that because surrender sometimes it has a negative connotation to so to say, I'm surrendering to the life of my dreams. It's so funny, but it's what you have to do. You have to surrender all your comforts of the past, you have to surrender your your um, what's the word? You have to surrender your surrendering your coping mechanisms that just feel so nice. Because what's the word? Instant gratification feels good in the moment, but if it's not aligned, you always feel it after, and you always feel the little chip that it does to your sense of self, that your connection to your authenticity, you you always feel it. And I think instead of burying all of our misalignments by just doing more misalignments by lying to ourselves, it's time that you seek your source, that you get to know your source, whatever your source is, it whether it's religious, whether it's a way of life, whether it's meditation, whether it's simply the sun, where it's simply a feeling of love. Seek it out in your life. Personally seek that source, and it'll come to you. You'll get to understand the knowing of I'm sustained, my cup overflows, and all that it takes for this understanding to flow in harmony is quite literally my authentic expression. I am the key. The key is me, and the key that is me, my life force is sustained by something far greater that knows all things, that leads me in paths of righteousness, that moves mountains out of the way without me even knowing. My auntie said that yesterday.media, auntie Charmaine. But you never know the intention in all things, and the only way to stop being so shaken is to develop that sense of source, that understanding of the source. And I promise you, once you seek it, you will feel it. You will feel it. I can't tell you when you'll feel it, but I promise you that it's there. And it's all about listening to your intuition and surrendering all the fear to step into your faith. It's time to step into your faith. I believe in you. I truly do believe in you, and I can't even imagine the beauty that will be your authentic aligned self. Your authentic, aligned self. You are worthy to be seen. You are worthy to be fulfilled. You're worthy of being sustained. You are worthy of your cup overflowing in love and joy and happiness. And it's time that we stop denying ourselves that truth. For we are magic. You are magic. Beauty is all around and most definitely within you. I encourage you to seek your peace and pursue it in your passion. I love you later. I'm Brittany, and this was Mr. Britt. I just filmed the promo for this episode, and I said something that I didn't mention in the episode, but I was like, you know what? That deserves to be in the episode. And it's that stop leaning on our own understanding and start leaning on the understanding of something far greater from us. That is when our cups are emptied when we deny the understanding of the divine and we lean on our own understanding. Therefore, we're draining, we're draining, we're draining when really there's nothing left within us without the divine. The divine is the breath that flows through our life. Our breathing is a sign of how loved we are because that is the divine purpose. I love ya.