How To Balance Your Heart Chakra For A Life of Love and Abundance?

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Today let's talk about the fourth chakra or the heart chakra.

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Now many of us know this as the center for attraction and abundance.

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So this is one of the favorite chakras that almost everybody

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tends to concentrate on.

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But below this are three body level chakras and above the heart chakra

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are three spirit level chakras.

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So, 1, 2, 3, they are our chakras in the body and above 5, 6, 7, they

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are chakras that connect us with the spirit and heart chakra gets to be

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that center that combines all of that.

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And hence, having a really balanced heart chakra is very much around

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having very healthy body level chakras and activated upper chakras as well.

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In fact, all the chakras, they're always connecting with the heart

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chakra in sort of a figure eight form.

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So let's dive into heart chakra and just learn more about it.

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The element here is air because this has got to be free, right?

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If you've done your inner work with the lower chakras, then

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you're feeling safe, you're feeling loved, you're feeling enough.

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And by the time you're coming to your heart space, you are feeling so abundant.

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Hence, this chakra is very much about abundance.

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It is about love.

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It is the heart chakra, right?

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It's not physically where your heart chakra is.

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It's just along the spine and a little bit above that space.

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So I call it the higher heart chakra.

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Maybe that explains it a little bit better.

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It's very much about love.

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And the balance here is about giving and receiving.

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Most of us in the world can either be very good givers or we can have

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feelings of hurt and so we are like, okay, I'm not doing that anymore.

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And then we wonder, why are we not receiving?

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This chakra is about teaching us that balance.

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So self love, wherever you felt hurt, wherever you have felt not

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seen, not appreciated, you felt you had to hide a part of yourself, all

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of that, of course, stemming from your other chakras, but it all tends

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to get stored in the heart chakra.

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The element with heart chakra is air.

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It's breathing and being able to breathe freely.

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Air doesn't like to be suffocated.

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You actually can't do that.

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Like you can't take air and just box it up in a box.

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Like you'll still have air outside.

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So, heart is really like that, wherever you feel like you're being trapped,

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you're being stopped, that's where it all just goes and impacts in the heart.

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So what does a balanced heart chakra look like?

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And then we'll talk about consequently what an imbalanced

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heart chakra looks like.

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A balanced heart chakra is where you're feeling feeling full of love where life is

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really turning out well for you, you feel abundant and abundance is not just wealth.

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Abundance is having really good, meaningful relationships, doing

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something that you're really passionate about, but just really

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enjoying living life every day, right?

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If you think about the heart chakra, it was in the center

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of all our other body chakras.

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And it's a connection between the body and the spirit.

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So you are really integrating all of that.

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And this is the last body chakra.

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So you have this feeling of joy for life.

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These are the people who will get up in the morning and they'll be

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like, yay, it's an amazing day.

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They will enjoy the rain.

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They will stop and smell the flowers.

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They will just be happy because they're happy.

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And it doesn't mean that life's absolutely great, that they're

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not having any problem at all, but they're just so full of life.

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They're just so much enjoying life that they're very much in the moment.

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It's easy for them to be present.

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They are cherishing life.

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So even if they are maybe not having the best conversation with someone,

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they are in there, they're present in that, but at the same time, they are

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not as impacted by the conversation.

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They are not like really taking it to heart.

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They're just seeing the person for what they're saying.

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They're understanding their point of view.

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They're not getting emotional, but they can understand what the person is saying.

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They can still cherish the person and they can come to it from a very neutral.

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loving and compassionate place.

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Now this doesn't happen if this person hasn't done the inner work

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of really loving themselves and when you love yourself it's a lot

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more than just doing bubble baths.

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Loving yourself and I would argue, that, that is your primary

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job, why you came on earth.

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You know, we tend to think of karma as, um, karma is for others, like I have

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to do to others what I want to be done to me, but the first person that you

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need to look after is guess who, you, because you chose to have this body.

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You chose to come on earth.

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without having your other relationships.

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You took that first step.

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So your first karma, your first obligation is you, your first loyalty,

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your last loyalty should be you.

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Looking after yourself is primarily the function of the heart chakra.

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And that will be listening to your desires, listening to your emotions,

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batting yourself for that, like really valuing your emotions, looking at yourself

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in the mirror and smiling, buying things for yourself, smaller things, bigger

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things, but giving yourself a chance.

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Like, you know, the way, a lot of us are actually tuned to loving others.

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We find it easier to support them.

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We find it easier to cheer someone else on.

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But doing that for yourself in the truest sense, having a lot of

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compassion for yourself, that is what your heart chakra beckons you to do.

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Especially in this place is where we store a lot of our hurts.

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Sometimes they're from others, sometimes they're from us, where we wanted to be

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more perfect, where we wanted to do things the right way and we felt we were short.

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We can hold all of that criticism.

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So this chakra is a lot about forgiveness beginning with yourself.

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First you have to forgive yourself wherever you feel

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like something bad happened.

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And even if it is something where you couldn't control it, I find

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that a lot of times people hide trauma in those places and they hold

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themselves accountable in some sense.

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Let's say someone's had some form of abuse, even then they'll hold some part

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of themselves accountable saying I should have known this, I should have protected

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myself, I should have done this and that.

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So just sit down and forgive yourself, like really look at

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yourself and forgive that part.

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This is really around healing that shadow part, right?

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Because heart chakra is very much around loving yourself, it's bringing

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those parts out that you are afraid of, that you have sort of hidden yourself.

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So maybe when you were younger, someone told you to dress in a

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particular way or not say a few things and so on, and you just stopped.

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But Heart Chakra is very much around letting those parts come

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out, letting yourself be the unique person that you are.

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So give yourself that love and that compassion.

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The affirmations for Heart Chakra are, I forgive myself and then I'm abundant.

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Keep saying that again and again and again till you find that you have

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forgiven yourself, you start feeling free.

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Let's say if you are in the habit of criticizing yourself when you run late,

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just consider changing that so that it's more compassionate, it's more kind.

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That's where your compassion really begins.

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You will start with being okay and then you'll slowly start feeling abundant.

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So in the beginning, you might not really think of yourself as

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awesome, but that's the goal.

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The element here is air.

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So it's very much around freedom.

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It's very much around feeling free.

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It's around just being as you are and being totally okay with it.

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So this space is not caring about anyone else, but just really owning

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your unique essence, just like air and being that bubbly, chirpy person.

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Air has its moods.

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Air can sometimes be windy.

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Air can be very soft and slow and breezy in the morning if it wants to.

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So this is that element.

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Heart space is really that.

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It's just embracing that.

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Now how do you balance your heart chakra?

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First doing these two affirmations again and again.

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I forgive myself.

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So noticing the places where you need to forgive yourself and then

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just doing that again and again.

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Another one is just saying I'm abundant and noticing with that, as you say

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that, where do you feel the resistance?

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Where do you feel you're lacking?

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And maybe you're lacking in terms of a relationship.

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Maybe you're lacking in that you do not have as much money

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as you would want to have.

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Maybe you want to have a million dollars and you don't yet have that.

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But it's tracking it back to the abundance level.

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It's tracking it back to, okay, where do I feel abundant?

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How much do I have?

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It's really appreciating that.

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Remember A happy heart chakra is very much around just enjoying life.

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So it's a lot of gratitude for what you already have.

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Feeling that and with that feeling, with that focus, you

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just amplify that more and more.

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Heart chakra is very much an attractive energy center.

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It will attract to you.

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It will automatically do that.

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It is already doing it.

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But as you are attracting, you just want to be making sure that you are

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attracting what you really want, right?

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So for that, attract from a place of abundance, attract from a place of

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gratitude, attract from a place that you have, and then you will get more.

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If you attract from a place of lack that I don't have the relationship I want,

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, that is probably gonna happen more and more and more because that is literally

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what you are putting out to the universe.

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So it's just noticing that self-talk with compassion for yourself.

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And it's also noticing the self-talk and thoughts around how do you feel.

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and changing that to abundance.

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So I hope that leaves you with powerful tips.

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If you are truly interested in balancing your heart chakra

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and manifesting, then consider joining my moon meditation circle.

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There is a huge library of meditations that you get when you join as

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well . So you'll get, for example, one on manifesting abundance.

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There's another one on self forgiveness and just so many more.

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It's impossible for me to list them out right now.

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But if that calls you, feel free to do that.

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Till then, just continue saying your affirmations.

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I'm enough and I forgive myself and you'll start feeling a change

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with how you are attracting.

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Thank you so much for listening to this episode.

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Lots and lots of love.

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You are awesome.

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bye.