Find Inner Peace and Spiritual Clarity Through Your Crown Chakra

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Hi, and welcome to today's episode of the Art of Life podcast.

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I am Kanika and I am so excited to talk to you about the crown chakra.

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This is the seventh major energy center of our bodies, but there's not as much that

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is shared about it, at least so widely.

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So I wanted to give you some perspectives on how to think about the crown chakra.

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This is known for spiritual awareness.

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for knowingness, for just those intuitive hits that people get or some specific

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people seem to get all the time.

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Now, before I start talking about this chakra, let's sort of

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just think about its placement.

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This is the seventh chakra, right?

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It is at the outer periphery of our major body chakras.

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The 7th chakra is very much a spiritual chakra.

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The changes.

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you would feel from that is very much at a spiritual level, To be able to

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really understand what the spiritual shift is about, consider the first body

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chakra and that is your root chakra.

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This is where you are born, like physically if you do not have a caesarean

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birth, you come out of the root chakra.

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So that's your foundation.

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That's coming into earth, having a body.

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So It's very much your identification as a human being.

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That's the first chakra.

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At the outermost level, the seventh chakra is pretty much

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that but at a spiritual level.

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It's very much knowing what is happening in the vast universe

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around you, finding safety there.

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And feeling okay with that.

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If you are really looking for a balanced 7th chakra, the 7th chakra is balanced or

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active for someone who's able to tap into their guidance and get that information.

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Now these days, the whole information layer around us is getting pretty crowded.

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There are lots of channels.

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And when I say channels, I definitely mean a lot of beings.

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I mean a lot of energy streams, a lot of information streams that

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are flowing to each one of us.

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Like consider, for example, the amount of thoughts you would have in a day.

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, You are getting a whole lot of information.

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A balanced crown Chakra is very much around being able to channel into the

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right information that you want to.

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There is a lot of information.

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All of us are actually getting a lot more overloaded.

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Crown chakra is really being able to get that guidance.

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Some people will get it, let's say when they're writing or when they're quiet,

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maybe when they're washing dishes, when you're having a shower, et cetera.

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Those are the times when.

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If something hits you and you know that it's a guidance, that

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is your crown chakra guidance.

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If you're able to follow that, if you're able to really do it, you are helping

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your crown chakra understand that this is the information you really want

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to have because you are acting on it

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But often a lot of times in today's world, what we are doing is we tend to just take

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a lot of information that's coming to us.

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Either there's just so much information that it sort of becomes easier to

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just consume that information, step down and just go like, okay, I'm

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so tired at the end of my work.

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And so whatever TV showing me right now, whatever feeds my phone is showing right

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now, I just sit back and consume that.

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Now, sometimes that is channeled guidance, but if you're not active

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in it, if you're just sitting there, if you're just consuming then that is

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an underactive crown chakra because just a lot of information is coming.

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Some people will channel some beings, especially mediums and

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so on, and they're very good at bringing that information out.

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Now whether that is underactive because you're not listening and doing something,

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there are other people who are really listening or there are people who

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will say oh I had an awakening and now I'm getting a lot of messages.

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But when you cannot stop it, that is an overactive crown chakra.

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Now the trick to that is remembering that yes, this is very much a spiritual

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chakra, this is very much where you are connecting with the outer world but

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it's maintaining your place on earth, it's maintaining your space on earth.

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You are very much having a physical experience still.

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Even for the mediums out there, or especially for the new ones

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who are just trying this whole channeling experience, doing that,

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but doing that in a safe manner.

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You do it, but you also ground, you also really connect with

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the earth and hold your space.

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You don't want to be hijacked by just a lot of information coming through.

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You want to be in control for what's coming through to you and

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you want to see it, analyze it before it comes to your space.

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You know, there are people who just channel beings and they go like, Oh,

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this being just takes over my body and then I don't know what I'm doing.

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Um, That could be okay, but that could also not be okay.

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It's sort of like letting someone drive your car and then they could do anything.

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They don't get the punishments for it if they knock your car or if

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they have some accident or anything.

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This is your body.

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You need to be in control of that.

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And so you're owning your space and connecting with the earth

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specially, being really grounded while all of this information is

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coming, being really targeted in receiving that guidance is paramount

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to having a balanced crown chakra.

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In my Moon Meditation Circle, I definitely teach these techniques and

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how you can have this experience, how you can tap into your guidance without

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having to give over your seniority.

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Just check it out at ArtofLifeCenter.

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com slash Moon.

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What does a crown chakra or a healthy crown chakra really bring for you?

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The change that you would experience with a healthy crown chakra is

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that you are getting guidance.

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You are able to tap into your guidance.

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And the shift here would be from consuming to creating.

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Now consuming is a very passive activity where someone's sharing information via

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whatever medium and you're taking it, and that could be media, that could be

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just your friends sharing something, , and you're sort of in the passive

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stage and you're just taking that.

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Consuming also is when you are just living your cycle, your life, on an automatic.

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cycle.

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You get up, you go to work, you come back, then you have your

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dinner, you go to sleep or chat with your friends, go to sleep, so on.

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But if you're just doing that automatic cycle in and out, which most of us

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would, but if nothing is there where you are creating, where you are using

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the guidance that is coming to you and really doing something with it,

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then you are not letting your crown chakra give you the guidance as

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well because you're not, validating whatever it's bringing in, right?

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For the universe to send you information, for the universe to send you guidance,

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the universe also wants you to act on it.

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And steps of creativity could very well be within your work.

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If you really enjoy your work, you are a florist and you enjoy decorating

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your bouquets in a certain fashion and you're doing that, then that's awesome.

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If there is a job or work that you're doing where you really enjoy doing

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it, where it is a process or a journey of flow rather than a journey of

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deadlines, definitely that is creative.

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For some people that could be in a garden, a lot of people

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that could be in the kitchen.

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There are people where this could just be when they're automatic writing,

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whatever that space is, maybe your job does not have a lot of space, room for

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creativity, but whatever little bits you can do, that would be a good way to start

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activating your crown chakra, that is a good way to start having the guidance.

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Especially if there are questions that you have one of the things

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that you can do is sit down and start doing automatic writing.

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Just share your intention with the cosmic world and say this is what you want to

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write about and then just start writing.

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Instead of deadline in terms of getting your guidance, a

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process works a lot better.

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In that sense, trying to create a rhythm.

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Maybe your whole day is very busy, but what you could do is, Hey, during

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the morning from five to six o'clock, I am going to sit down and write.

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And this is where I want all the answers to come in, but just

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get up every day and do that.

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And maybe the first few times it's going to be very clunky.

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Maybe things don't come in, but then automatically things will start coming in.

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Maybe your intention could be just before going to bed and you could say, okay,

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I'm just going to doze off for the night.

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But this is what I want to channel.

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This is what I want to learn about.

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This is what I want to explore and just give that space, make that space

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for all of that guidance to come in.

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Sometimes if you have not really used your crown chakra or if other

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chakras are not balanced, this whole communication can be very noisy.

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It might need clearing.

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But the more and more, at least you start using the channels, the more and more

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you start asking for that guidance and being really specific, the more at least

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you allow that communication to happen.

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And by that virtue itself, it will start cleaning up a lot of the gunk in

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between and with passage of time, you'll start getting a lot clearer as well.

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This advice also applies to, let's say, the people you've lost.

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And so one of the things that you can do to connect with them is without

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being emotional, but you can just have an intent, sit down, meditate,

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clear your space, get really neutral, and then tell them, Hey, you know,

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I want to communicate with you.

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And either that could be a very blanket thing, like I want to communicate

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with you, or it could be I want to communicate with you about something.

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And then again, doing the same thing, setting up a rhythm.

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Do a rhythm that will really function, settle into your daily life as best

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as possible, places where you're sitting down and where you have that

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space, where you are just by yourself.

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Whether it is going for walks, whether it is the time when you are in water,

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when you're going for swimming.

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But you can definitely have that intention that this is the time that

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I want those thoughts to come in.

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Have rhythms there, have steps during your day where you just do a little check in.

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Um, and a quick five minutes or 10 minutes of this exercise won't work.

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Let's say if you go like, Hey, five minutes, I've got

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five minutes on universe.

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Now whatever you want to tell me about subject A, come and do that.

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It won't really work that way.

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The reason that wouldn't work is because you just have a lot of energy in your

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space that you first need to clear.

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Typically what's happening when you are channeling, when you're

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getting some guidance is the guidance has to match your frequency.

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If you're wanting awareness, if you're wanting to connect with

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someone who's passed away, they are at a very high frequency.

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Chances are that if you just sit down and if you go like, Oh, I want this

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information now and I want to connect with you now, it doesn't happen because

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you are not at that place yourself.

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That's why sit down, meditate, like go into that high vibration state,

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whatever does that for you, whether that is dancing, whether that is.

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swimming, but get into a high vibration state because if you are channeling

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into something that's really high vibration, you need to be a match.

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And then that's where things start coming in.

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Now, if that happens for you in five minutes, that is awesome.

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But for a lot of people, it just takes a little bit of clearing to get there.

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Meditate, clear your head.

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Get in a space where you can invite that guidance to come in, and then

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when that comes in, then you can just have that rhythm there to

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help you capture those thoughts and store that information for yourself.

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But the more you act on it, then you activate that channel where

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that guidance is coming through.

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If you think about it, the first chakra, and again that complementary

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chakra, The first chakra is very much around feeling okay in the body.

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Feeling okay that you have a physical experience, that you will be fine,

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that you are safe as you are, that you are okay as you are, you know,

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with your body shape, with whatever money you have and so on, but at

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least just feeling that you're okay.

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Just telling yourself that I am okay as I am.

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Crown Chakra is pretty much taking that spiritual guidance

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and then going, Oh, this is okay.

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This is okay as it is.

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Really believing in that because a lot of times the guidance might

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just sound very simple or guidance might also sound something, you know.

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which is very contradictory to the conditioning or the

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society pattern, right?

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For example, if somebody is really stuck in a marriage, in the heart of hearts

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or in their guidance, they really know that this is not working for them.

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Is their crown chakra then healthy?

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Well, probably not, but there's also a whole lot more of disbalance in their

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space because what they really need to do is not be in that unhealthy relationship.

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But they just feel stuck.

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They can't do anything.

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The idea is that you move your life to steps of alignment.

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Maybe take baby steps if you have to.

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The more you tune in, especially to your spiritual guidance, you'll realize that

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sometimes things become a lot clearer, you hear them a lot, but because you

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can't act on them, there is an unconscious and a conscious blocking that you do

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yourself to not tap into that, because it can then become too painful to know,

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oh, I'm supposed to step out of this, but I can't step out of this relationship.

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Crown chakra is at the top, but there are six other body chakras

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below it and they need to function.

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They need to be at least in some level of alignment, some level

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of healthy functioning state so that then you can really have a

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very active crown chakra as well.

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That's why just acting on the small things, taking the small steps that you

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can, finding that courage, let's say if you have to really come out and break

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some patterns because crown chakra is really going to be a lot around, shifting

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the patterns around you, really changing things, how you're doing fundamentally,

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because instead of taking information from the world, taking information

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from around you of how things are to be done with the crown chakra, you're

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really going to a place of, Oh, this is what I think this is what I have to do.

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And guess what?

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Is everybody around you going to like it?

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No, probably not.

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Not lots of times.

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And what you can do here is, while you're having that guidance, while

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you have all of that fear, is you can ground your fear in a meditation state.

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You can also ask for guidance around those fears.

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Hey, I have this fear.

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What do I do?

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You could instead have more of a conversation and go like, Hey,

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I don't know how to break this relationship because if I break the

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relationship, this is going to happen.

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This is what this person is going to say.

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I'm not yet ready for it.

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And so but it can definitely.

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work with receiving the guidance.

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You can ask much deeper questions.

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Let's say if you really want to make a shift and you want to have a spiritual

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teacher who's going to guide you, you can also ask, Hey, I want someone

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to help guide me on this journey.

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This seems a lot harder for me.

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And then your guidance can come in for that as well.

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You can just let your guidance come in and treat that as a friend.

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And take that little bite, be very honest, go like, hey, this

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is all I can do at the minute.

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Uh, I know you're telling me all of these 10 steps, but I'm not brave

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enough to do all the 10 steps.

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I'm just brave enough to do the first half and you can just do that, you

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know, but just keep doing that so that the guidance can come in more and more

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and get into a place of stillness where you can still the other thoughts and

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you can just get into that guidance.

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We have a belief, that guidance is only available to specific people or people

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who found their spirit guides, etc.

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But nothing is further from the truth.

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I was very much like a template person for a really long time in my life.

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And if I could get the training and if I could really start tapping

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into my guidance, so can you, there's nothing as I would love

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to say, oh, hey, I'm very special.

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I am just the way you are really special in your life.

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But because I can do it, you can do it as well.

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It's really simple.

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Don't let anyone tell you that your guidance is foreign, that your guidance

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does not belong to you, that your guidance is governed by a priest, that your

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guidance is governed by something else.

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They might be a lot more practiced at it, but there's nothing that stops

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you from channeling that guidance and getting your own answers.

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You, by very virtue of you listening to this podcast, you, by just the virtue

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of wanting to do that, wanting to tap into your guidance, you have as much

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right as anyone else on earth to be the creator of your life, to be the person

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who can tune in to their guidance.

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Have fun, keep enjoying, keep acting on your guidance and have fun with it.

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That wraps up today's episode.

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