Dr. David Gruder Interviews - LAURIE MORSE - The Doorway Into Your Creative Life Force (Part 2 of 2)

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Get ready to reimagine the future of humanity and unlock
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your true potential. Welcome to Reimagining Humanity's Future and Yours,
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hosted by doctor David Bruder, an internationally renowned integrative psychologist,
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human potential expert, author, and social change catalyst. As he
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delves into the most urgent issues of our time. With
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the world facing unprecedented challenges and social and political divides
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growing deeper, it's time to take action. Each episode of
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this groundbreaking see Theories will empower you with invaluable insights, strategies,
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and tools to heal these divisions and restore personal freedom
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and societal well being. Whether you're a concerned citizen, a
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courageous leader, an influential figure, or an ambitious entrepreneur, Reimagining
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Humanity's Future and Yours will guide you on a transformative
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journey discover your unique role in creating a brighter future
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for yourself and society at large. Doctor David Gruder will
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draw upon his extensive knowledge and experience to provide practical
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solutions for shaping the world we live in. With his
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passionate exploration of social change, he will help you navigate
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through the complexities of our time and inspire you to
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make a meaningful impact, So prepare yourself for an eye
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opening experience as we delve deep into the heart of
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ignite your imagination, and equip you with the tools you
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c A. Welcome to Reimagining Humanity's Future and yours. Why
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together we create a brighter tomorrow? Now Here is the
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host of Reimagining Humanity's Future and yours, Dr David Gruder.
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Well, welcome back to the Reimagining Humanity's Future in your
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show on Realmar's Cancom Broadcast Network, proudly broadcasting from Canada
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to the world. I'm your host, Doctor David Gruder, the futurist,
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polymath of human potential, bottleneck buster and civilizational architect who
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equips leading edge leaders, influencers, helping professionals and you with
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vital resources that make it possible for humanity's most spiritually
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elevated future to at last emerge. The title of this
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episode is Reimagining Creativity, Part two, Walking through the Doorway
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to your Creative Life Force. Most people think creativity is
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limited to artists, musicians, writers, and so forth, but in truth,
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creativity is one of life's most primary organizing forces.
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For all of us.
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In Part one, we established how our relationship with beauty, imagination,
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and the creative life force profoundly shapes our nervous system,
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our consciousness, our well being, and even our ability to
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navigate today's increasingly stressful world. In this episode, will get
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really concrete about why none of us can afford to
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be disconnected from our creativity and provide really practical ways
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to tap into your creativity in each part of your life,
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even if you haven't yet fully embraced your creativity or
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your capacity for that. My guest returning for part two
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is Lori Morse. Luri brings together worlds that are too
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often separated, art, healing, and consciousness. She's practiced Chinese medicine
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for thirty five years, spent more than twenty years as
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a professional artist and as the author of three books
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providing deeper perspectives on healing and transformation. Throughout her work,
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she has developed a profound understanding of the relationship between intention, creativity, energy,
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the nervous system, and our capacity to live from greater
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balance and wholeness. Her award winning paintings, at least some
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of them have already received awards, are far more than
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visual experiences. Through botanical symbolism, layered texture, intuitive markmaking, and
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what she calls visual alchemy, Laurie creates artwork that invites calm,
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deepens reflection, and connects us with the creative life force itself.
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As you know from part one if you have already
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viewed or listened to that, Laurie also happens to be
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my wife, making this an especially meaningful conversation for you
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to eavesdrop on. I'm delighted to welcome you back once
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again to reimagining humanity's future in Yours, Honey.
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Thank you, it's great to be here.
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And in this first segment, Laurie and I will explore
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a question that almost everyone faces, whether they consider themselves
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creative or not. Why does so many of us feel
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disconnected from inspiration, beauty and aliveness?
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In our daily lives.
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And so you know, well, let's do this, Laurie before
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we jump into things like standards of beauty and the
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other things we're going to be talking about. Would you
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like to recap what we covered in part one that
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laid the foundation for what we're about to cover in
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part two.
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Yeah, sure, I can make it sort of short and sweet.
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We talked about how most of our souls are undernourished,
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and our souls, the medicine for our souls is image, color, beauty,
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that kind of thing, and we don't give ourselves permission
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to actually engage in that as often as we should.
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And the reason it's important is because it's the bridge
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between our human self and our more sacred self. And
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our human self is all about ego and fear, and
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our more sacred self is more of a heart centered self, right,
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And it connects us to the universal self, which is
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very intelligent, is very healing, and has it gives us
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access to any possibility we want, including peace on earth
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to start to grow that. So anyway, so creativity is
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a bridge, and it is a medicine, and it you know,
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it's already coursing through our veins. I call it the
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creative life. For Chinese medicine calls it chi. You know,
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it doesn't matter really what we call it, but it's
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really important that we turn toward it and cultivate a
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relationship with it. And creativity is one of the best
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ways I have found to do that.
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Mm hmmm, I totally agree with you.
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You know you you talk about standards of beauty, can
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you unpack what well?
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I just wanted to make a note that when we
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talk about beauty. First of all we said this last time,
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is that beauty is the motivational force of the universe.
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That love is the essence of life, but beauty is
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the expression of life. So we are not talking about
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the standards of beauty that are set by cultures, you know,
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like in our culture, in a Western culture, you know,
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there's magazine covers and airbrush and now there's ai and
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I am not talking about that standard of beauty. I'm
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talking about the standard of beauty that activates a heart
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response or you know, that spontaneous cry that we have
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when we watch something beautiful or the sunset. You know,
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nature is probably our best example of activating honest beauty,
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and we all have that inside of us. Because we
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are an extension of nature, just in a different form.
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And so what I'm inviting listeners to do is to
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is to be willing to have your soul and your
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heart teach you what is beautiful to you, not external
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standards of beauty. And more often than not, internal beauty
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to you isn't going to be the same as me
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or David or anyone else, but it will be noticeable,
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it will be distinct, it will be very clear to you,
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and it will render external beauty bars inconsequential because it's
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no longer your bar for beauty and that and that's
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an important standard to you know, be conscious about.
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I think wow wow. Okay, So.
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The the beauty is the motivational force of the universe.
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Love is the foundation of life. Beauty is the motivational force.
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And you're talking about beauty that activates a heart response,
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that that's the activation or expression rather of life. And
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you're also making the point that because nature is our
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best example of beauty and we are an extension of nature,
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part of our responsibility is to allow our soul and
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our heart to teach us what beauty is for us,
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so that we aren't imprisoned by external standards of beauty.
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Yeah, yeah, good recap.
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Cool.
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So how does creativity help cultivate conscious awareness of our
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individual and universal connection to life and nature.
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Well, we said it earlier. When we're engaged intentionally in
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anything creative, and it doesn't have to even mean painting
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or sculpting. It can be you know, a garden. It
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can be how having a conversation with your teenager that matters,
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or your boss or your partner. It could be knitting,
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anything that you know is a hands to material thing.
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I heard John Stewart say the other day that in
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the nineties he was a bit out of control and
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lost and the only and his mind was spinning all
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the time. I think a lot of people can relate
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to this today. And the only thing that settled him
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and brought him peace was woodworking. And he used these
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words it was a hands to material thing that opened
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up a space for his mind to settle and for
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his heart and soul to come into alignment with peace.
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And I thought that was a beautiful way of describing
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how creativity can alter our energy. So I can't remember
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what your original question was, because, yeah, because when we're
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engaged to it in a hand to material thing and
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we're purposeful about it. That is the creative life force.
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We can't not be in connection or be in be
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cultivating our relationship with our life force, with our higher self.
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Yeah, and you also talk about the yin yang of creativity.
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What is the what is the yang? And why is
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dancing between them so vital?
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Yeah, So in Chinese medicine, I'm going to bring in
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Chinese medicine for this one. Is perfect health in a
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human body and even on the planet would be a
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perfect balance of yin and yang, and we haven't found
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our way to that yet. So yin in Chinese medical
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ways of understanding is everything that has substance. So it's
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like our tears and our synovial fluid and our cerebral
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spinal fluid and our blood. That's all material moisture, and
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yong is what we don't see. But we mentioned this
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last week. It's like the wind blowing the trees. There's wind,
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but we don't see the wind. And it's the same
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thing in our own bodies, is that there's this force,
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this life force that's pumping our blood and conducting our impulses,
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but we don't necessarily see it. And yin nourishes young,
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and young moves yin, So yin is considered our being
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this it's the feminine force, and young is considered our doing,
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and it's the masculine force.
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On quick second, I want to make sure that our
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audience understands that what we're talking about in this context,
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when we're mentioning feminine and masculine, we're talking about states
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of consciousness that exist in all human beings. Exactly what
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type of metaphorical not literal biology.
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Right, and every form of life has a balance of
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masculine and feminine or yin and young. It's it's what
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gives us our polarity experience on this earth of you know,
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of opposites, right, sun, moon, night dark or night light
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and all the different opposites. So in the context of
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creativity in the yin part, being curious is a great
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place to be. So this is we we said earlier
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about your asking your heart what you find beautiful. That
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inquiry that curiosity is is a yin aspect of creativity
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and your heart will and your soul you know, is
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involved here too. It will guide you to aspects of
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beauty that you will you that will move you, and
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then you will know, Oh, that's that's beauty to me, right,
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and giving yourself space to rest is a yin creative function.
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In any work of art or in music, there have
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to be notes and rests. There have to be, you know,
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vital spaces in a work of art and resting spaces,
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and a human being needs the same thing. I always say,
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there's no music without notes and rests. It has to
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be both. And somehow in our Western culture we are
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driven to only be productive and not give ourselves the
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amount of rest that we need. Looking at art is
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a very yin function, just you know, viewing it and
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beholding it and noticing how it moves you, letting your
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imagination wander. That our imagination is literally the field of spirit,
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and so if we take our consciousness to that field
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and we be we engage ourselves in our imagination, we're
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literally co creating with life. And that's a big deal
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because besides the prime directive for a human being to
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propagate the species, our prime directive is to co create
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with life. This is why creativity becomes really important. And
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you know, accessing your purpose and just being in alignment
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with that so that the choices you make and the
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thoughts you think and the beliefs you hold are in
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alignment with your purpose, whereas the other side of the coin,
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the creative young part, is the doing part. And this is,
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you know, putting your focus on things that are important
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to you and moving yourself in that direction. It's in
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terms of art, it's developing your style or your voice
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if you're an artist, but also your understanding of what's
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beautiful to you. Right like, that's a that's a doing this,
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even though it's a being this too. You'll find that
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these kind of collapse, not collapse, I shouldn't say collapse.
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They weave with each other. Collaborating with others is a
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doing this. Even collaborating with a color is a doing this.
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Collaborating with your creative life force is a doing this.
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It's also a being this. So and then just show
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and offer yourself consistently. Writers will tell you just got
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to sit down and get your button the seat and write.
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Meditators will tell you just got to get your seat,
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your butt on the seat cushion and meditate. There will
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be good days and there'll be bad days, but showing
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up for yourself is part of a creative aspect of
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yourself and it's really important.
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M Well.
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The rest of this episode, we're going to be diving
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into the ins and outs of accessing your creativity in
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deeper ways than you're likely to have been exposed to before.
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The first of which is to simply pay attention to rests,
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pay attention to when you're noticing beauty, and let yourself
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really receive and be nourished by that. After a short break,
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my guest creative consciousness guide Lorie Morse and I will
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dig beneath the surface to expose more of tips around
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creative partnership, around embodying your creativity. I'm doctor David Gruder.
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A welcome back before the Break Create, my guest Creative
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Life Force philosopher and facilitator Laurian Morse and I discussed
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the importance of that interplay between the notes and the rests,
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the yen and the young, and in this segment we're
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going to explore the impacts of creativity on how we
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can show up in all parts of our life.
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But where I want to continue from.
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Is is this question, why is creativity our prime directive
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beyond propagation of our species?
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And why is co creating with life so crucial? Yeah?
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the co creating with life. The purpose of incarnating into
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a physical form is to co create with life. And
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so you know, we didn't come here to tear the
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planet apart and be not good enough and and be
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in turmoil. We came here to co create with life.
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And there there are I think it's important for people
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to know, even though it's hard to see we're going
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through a transitional phase between how it's been for a
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lot of centuries to an elevation of the experience of life.
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And not everyone can believe that, but it's for those
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of us who do know that it's our job to
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hold that vision. And and that's why building the creative
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muscle is important, because it opens up our ability as
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a human being to see that there are more there
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are more options and more possibilities for us to live into.
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There was something I was just going to say here,
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and I lost my train of thought on it. I'll
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have to come back to it, but yeah.
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It's.
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We're designed to influence and elevate all of life in
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beautiful ways, and that is not happening, you know, in
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terms on a large scale. So I think that the
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best muscle to build is our creative muscles so that
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we can discover what it actually feels like in our body.
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Because all of this has to happen in an embodied way.
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We can't be disconnected. We can't be only in our head.
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We have to be in our heart and in our
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body and in our you know, all of our energy
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centers have to be open and connected, and that is
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what gives us the capacity to play and receive I
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know what I was going to say, receive patterns of perfection,
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because they're already in the airwaves, they're in our cells,
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and we don't know what they are because we're too
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busy being distracted. And creativity causes a type of focus
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that gives us access to those patterns of perfection, to
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a blueprint for wholeness, not only for ourselves individually, but
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for all of life.
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M wow, okay, And so.
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Yes, we came here to co create with life, not
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to ignore it, not to dominate it, not to destroy it.
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And there are more options for us to live into
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with creativity than most of us realize. And elevating life
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in beautiful ways is the essentially the prime directive, if
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you will, ye, And then you were also saying, and
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I think this really bears more detail. Expressing our creative
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muscles requires embodiment, not just our head, right, because if
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we're not an embodiment, we can't really receive patterns of
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perfection and respond to patterns of perfection. And the doorway
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into that that you mentioned into receiving is to stop
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busy being distracted.
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Exactly, And what is the quickest way to access and
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embody awareness is a breath. You know, we always come
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down back to a breath. We I think we mentioned
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mindfulness last time. And if you're if you're lost in
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your head and you're spinning and you're not even sure
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what next step to take, if you take a breath
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or two where you drop your awareness into your heart
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or even deeper, you know, like into your root center
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or into notice your feet and you know, whiggle your
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toes a little bit so you can actually feel your feet.
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It pulls your awareness into your body, and there's a
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different capacity to receive and get access to the intelligence
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of life when we're in our body. Our mind will
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never let us have that. And that's the that's the
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part of our humanity that is coming to a a rebirth,
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and the rebirth has to include our heart and it
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has to include our.
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Body, right And I'm going to make a side meant
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about that for those who are tuning into this episode
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that might be pushing back in their minds a little
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bit against against the head, you know, the because they're
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very head based. So what I want to say explicitly
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is we are not ever talking about leaving our heads
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behind we're talking about our head being in right relationship
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with our heart and our spirit. Where are instead of
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our head running the show, the tail wagging the dog,
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our head is in service to everything that you were
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just describing exactly.
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And here's the curious thing. When we're only in our head,
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it completely excludes our body. But when we're in our body,
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it includes our heads. So then it becomes this synergistic
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co creative partnership that works way better. So and when
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we're you know, engaged in a creative experience, that hand
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material thing that was mentioned in the last segment, it
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includes our body and that's and that's a training and
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that's why a creative experience is one of the best
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training grounds I know to build that muscle right, and
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then you have access to it whenever you need it.
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Yes, and what you're talking about right now is essentially
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embodied spirit. So there are some people who are so
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focused on the ethereal, on the transcendent, on what is
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often referred to as spirit, that they aren't grounded. They're
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not they're not in the world, they're not in their body.
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And there are other people who are so body attached
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and body focused that they've left their spirit behind. And
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what I want to make sure is very clear in
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this episode is that what we're talking about here is
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the the combination of both, which I just shorthanded as
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embodied spirit.
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Absolutely, absolutely. It's interesting that people think that the matter
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that we are aren't that it isn't a part of spirit.
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It actually is that. I mean, spirit is matter, Embodied
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spirit is matter, you know, in form and we embody that.
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And so our job as a human is to acknowledge
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and recognize and operate and act from that knowing and
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that livingness.
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Yes, yes, yes.
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And the other thing I want to come back to
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and underscore that you were saying, because this is another
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concrete tip for tapping into creativity in a deeper way,
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and we'll get into a lot more tips in the
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next segment, But don't underestimate the power of coming back
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to breath and through that allowing yourself to drop your
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awareness into your heart, your root, center, your feet, because
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this is what opens our capacity to receive the intelligence
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of life.
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Exactly, and the intelligence of life is a creative by nature.
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I'll just keep reminding us of that. Right, We're actually
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not trying to figure anything out, We're just remembering who
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we are, and that kind of helps, you know, It's like, oh,
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if I just steel myself for enough breath in the moment,
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in those moments of breath, I will remember a larger
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truth than what I've been believing up until now. And
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that's just very valuable.
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Yes, yes, absolutely.
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It reminds me of something that's said in a course
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in Miracles, which is that this material the course, that
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course is not about teaching us how to love. It
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is about helping us remove our blocks to the awareness
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of love presence.
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Exactly exactly, And that's a good thing to say. You know,
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you mentioned spirit and matter, and the truth is, the
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higher truth is that all of that is the same stuff.
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Where you're using these words chia and creative life, force
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and spirit and matter and humanity and divinity and you know,
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all all breath and all but all of it is
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the same thing. And so the more willing we are
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to align ourselves to all of that and not and
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not live in separation of any of it, the easier
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our life will be. That that actually is the ultimate
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ending of suffering, is when we live in that, in
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that much of an alignment with all of life.
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That's really important, and I want to encourage our audience
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to really take that in what you described is a
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formula for ending suffering.
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Right, you know, in in the.
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Phase of my career for a couple of decades where
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there was room in and among everything else that I
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do to provide psychotherapy, I had a sign in my
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office that said misery is optional and suffering. You know,
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suffering is optional would be another way of saying that.
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And when I would meet with someone for the first time,
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I would watch their eyes for when their eyes fell
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on that sign to notice their reaction. And some people,
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when their eyes fell on that sign, their reaction would be, oh,
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it really is misery really is optional, isn't it? And
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other people, when they would see the sign, they would
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freeze like deer in the headlights. And I would have
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to say to those people, don't worry about it. Believing
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that misery is optional is optional too.
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Right, right, exactly, Yeah, And this is an important thing
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because the mind will hijack this thing like if suffering,
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if we're gonna it isn't a like a switch that
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we flip and all of a sudden suffering is gone.
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We will still encounter little things all day long. The
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thing that shifts is that we notice it, we don't
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resist it, and we let it flow through. And if
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we don't do that, then we're in a quick stand
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of suffering. And if we keep going on days and days,
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then now we have a full blown story about it,
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you know what I mean. So it's just really about
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checking ourselves, staying present and in connection. And this is
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why creativity helps, because we have to be present, we
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have to focus, and we have to stay in connection
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in our embodied self, not in our mind. I'm talking
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about when we drop in and be in our human
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in our heart and soul and body. Then it teaches
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us how to do this when things happen in life.
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And I think that's valuable.
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Ah, well, you know, you just touched on something else
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that I think is very juicy, And I think we
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can only discuss this in a very brief way right now,
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which has to do with storytelling. Internal storytelling, the stories
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we tell ourselves is a form of creativity. And we
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can either use that creativity to tell ourselves and believe
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stories that reinforce, blocking our heart and blocking our spirit,
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or we can tell ourselves stories that open our heart.
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And our spirit.
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We and only we are responsible for the stories we
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tell ourselves and the creativity we bring to bear on
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those stories.
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Yeah, exactly, And that's a perfect example of how we
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could use our creativity. Oh I'm in my worry mode.
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I have people tell me all the time, Oh, I'm
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a worrier. My mom was a word. It's like, I
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don't buy that. It's like, yeah, well you've practiced it,
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so it's a habit and now it's very familiar to you.
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But you don't have to keep doing that. You can
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use your creative life force and change the story, change
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the imagery.
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And yes, and the reason that I bring that up
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is because all of us are storytelling machines.
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And I'm saying.
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That because since all of us are storytelling machines, all
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of us are creative. We're already being creative. There's no
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such thing as I'm not creative. We're already doing it.
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So Yes, after the upcoming short break, we'll get to
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the heart of the matter, which is more specific ways
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than we've already covered to live in fuller and more
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consistent partnership with the creative life force.
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I'm doctor David Gruder.
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We're back before the break Creativity embodiment Catalyst. I just
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invented another phrase for you. I know Laurie Morris and
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I touched on how creativity influences every aspect of our
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lives without exception, and as I mentioned in this segment,
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we'll provide even more specific tips for applying creative moments
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in all parts.
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Of your daily life.
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So, Laurie, what does a create a daily creative practice
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that turns beauty and.
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Discipline look like?
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And in other words, what are practical ways for us
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to become better at turning ordinary moments into creative ones
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in various parts of our lives?
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Yeah?
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Perfect?
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Is it? Okay?
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If I just talk about the influences of creativity in personal, family, education,
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and business real quick.
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Or you that's exactly what I was hoping you would
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cover and then go into the specific tips, into the.
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Specifics, right. So, I think it's important that we all
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just acknowledge that creativity because it abounds and it's it's
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literally every particle and wave of life that it matters
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to our individual health, it matters to our family, it
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matters to our friends, you know, all the sphere that
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we have that we influence. It matters in education, it
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matters in business. You could go poke around in LinkedIn
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right now and you will see. And this has been
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going on for a couple of years now that companies, large,
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medium and small, they're all looking for people who have
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a creative lean. You know, this doesn't mean they have
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to be painters. It just it means they have a
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relationship with their creative life force. They don't use that wording,
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but they'll use the word creativity or creative. People are
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worried about AI taking over the world, you know, And
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I can tell you for a fact that human beings
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who access their creative self will that will always out
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do AI. There's no soul in AI, there's no heart
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in AI, and so create a human being that's in
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a creative expression will always be better than AI. And
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people feel that. So in case that's something you're worried about,
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so I would just say that a practice throughout a
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day would be, you know, starting your day just acknowledging
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that you are a creative being and that you're in
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an exploration about what that means for you. And you
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don't have to have the answers right away. You're letting
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things unfold for you. I can't tell you how much
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our heart and soul and this is by personal experience
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and our being, our whole system loves it when we
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are just in this open inquiry about what's beautiful to me,
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what's what would be creatively fun for us to engage
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in us meaning our whole system. So but one of
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the things that we know, and the National Institutes of
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Health have a lot of research on this, and there's
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books now like the Art Here Cure c u r E.
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It's by a researcher in England, and Your Brain on Art.
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These are just a couple of the resources that are
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more recent that if you were inclined and read it
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would convince you, oh, I'm part of this too. You know,
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whether or not you're just one who loves to view
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art or you want to get engaged. But I would
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recommend that you do the most engagement that you are
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inclined to. So so we already talked about breath and
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one of the other things that you could doodle, So
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that's an easy thing to do is if you're on
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zoom Er Voice, you know voice Call, you can just
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make some doodles on some pieces of paper. That's a
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really good way of moving energy out of your body
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through your hand and onto a page. One of the
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things I love to consider is that anything that we
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do anything on it's called a substrate in the art world,
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whether it's a canvas, a wood panel, a watercolor paper,
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a dinner plate, you know, a garden bed, anything like that, right,
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is a substrate and it's where we can and so
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I call it an altar, like a sacred alter altar
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upon which we can alter our energy alt er. And
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what I mean by that is if we're feeling fearful
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or anxious, or worried or stressed or you know, grief,
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any of those energies, all of these energies, trauma, all
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of those can be altered upon an alter of intention. Right,
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So just knowing that is a direction that you can
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move yourself into. A lot of people color and coloring books.
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I mean that's an altar as well. One of the
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things I love to do is to take a piece
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of water color paper and watercolor pencils. These are very
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inexpensive supplies. If you want to just grab some on
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Amazon and have them around and write on the water
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color paper what's bothering you? You know, it's kind of
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like a journal page, but it's different and you'll see
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why in just a moment, and use all the colors
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that appeal to let your let your heart pick out
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the color, right, because all colors have qualities that are
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of divine nature. And we can talk about that that
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if we have time, but nonetheless, just pick the colors
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that you that you're feeling attracted to, write your thing
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on the on the piece of water color paper, take
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a sponge or a paintbrush, and then blur it. And
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while you're doing that, you're asking your soul to transform.
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You're asking your heart and your higher self to transform
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this energy into something more serving for you. And then
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you can either rewrite your story about it because we
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were talking about being story making machines, or you could
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commage things out of a magazine that represent where you're
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moving yourself toward. That is one of the best ways
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to move your mental and emotional energy. And you'll notice
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if you do it a few times, you're notice you'll notice. Oh,
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just like John Stewart said, something opens and I have
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a quieter mind and I have access to more peace. Right,
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if you're worried about one of these things, you can
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do from a if you have a physical thing, and
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I've done this a lot, like if let's say your
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foot hurts, you can put your foot on a piece
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of paper and just trace your foot and color that.
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But ask ask the intelligence of your foot, what do
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you need? What are you trying to tell? Me if
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it's in pain. Right, pain is a blockage of light,
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of the flow of life force. So if there's pain
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anywhere in our body, it's something that we're either doing
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or not doing that needs to change.
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So be it.
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I think we temporarily lost Lorie, but she's coming back now.
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You are, okay, Yeah, Be in a dialogue with yourself
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about that part of your body that's in pain. That's
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the inquiry, that's the curiosity that we talked about earlier,
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and color it or I can't tell you how many
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times I've done something like that and just let myself
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color or make marks on the page or whatever, and
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then the thing drops in that I need to know
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and it's okay. If it doesn't happen right away, keep
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practicing it and it'll eventually happen easier and easier. If
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you're worried worried about events in the world, I think
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one of the best they're called prayer dots. One of
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the best things you can do is get a piece
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of paper and make little dots. You can either dip
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a skewer you like a barbecue skewer, the flat side
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in paint and make the dot, or you can use
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a colored pencil, or you can use your pen or
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your highlighter or your pencil on your desk and just
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make dots while you're sort of sending forth a prayer
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for that part of the world that you can't influence
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in any way, shape or form, but you can send energy.
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And it's more powerful than we have been led to believe,
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or that we even believe ourselves. But you'll just see
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how you feel. There will be more peace that comes
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over you for having doing something like that. Do I
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have time for one more of the spirit?
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You do? Okay?
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And did you want to say something before I talk
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into that?
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No, go ahead and talk into that, and.
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So our spirit this is the embodied part of ourselves,
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right if you learn how to ground yourself energetically into
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Mother Earth and then lift that hurt energy up through
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you and bring it out through the top of your
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head and connect to the cosmic life force, the source
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of all life, and ask that energy to come in
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through the top of your head. This may sound really
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woo woo, but this is a thing. For thousands of years,
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we have known that we are the being between Earth
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and the cosmic realms, and this is why we're co
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creative because we're the conduit, the vessel, the energetic form,
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you know, a physical form that gets to do the
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creating on the planet. So running that energy through you
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helps to clean your system. It can flush inflammation if
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you do it enough. I like to see it as light.
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It just gives me something to focus on. If you
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imagine like a waterfall of light coming in through the
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top of your head and flushing down through the bottoms
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of your feet and then letting Mother Earth's energy come
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up and just do that for several breasts. I heard
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the other day that life is a concentration of light
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energy in the multiverse, right, So we are light, We're
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particles of light, and we just don't know it yet.
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We haven't remembered that yet, because when we do, we
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will start wielding that light for good.
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Well, you just laid mic drop after drop after mic drop,
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and so I'm going to try to do a little
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bit of encapsulation. Companies are looking for people who have
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access to their creativity.
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There is no question and no doubt about that.
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And what you also said about that that I want
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to underscore is that having active access to creativity in
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the workplace makes you uncancellable by Ai. Good point, right,
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and that was your point, and I'm just underscoring it.
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I will share another example about that. In Singapore a
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couple of decades ago. Now, yeah, the school system had
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created a problem in the workplace, and the problem was
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that the school system had been shifted so that it
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had not helped students activate and elevate their relationship with
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their creativity, and the workplace was suffering because of that.
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So about well maybe now around well between twenty and
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twenty five years before we're broadcasting this episode, Singapore made
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a massive shift in its school system to bring creativity
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back into the education process, and businesses are deeply grateful
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for that shift. So that's another another statement in support
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of bringing your creativity into the workplace.
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You also said.
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Something about the importance of starting our day with reconnecting
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with our creativity, reminding ourselves that we partner are creative beings.
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And if that's a hard thing for you to remember,
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then just use the reminder that we talked about in
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the in the last segment. Remember that because we are
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incessant story inner story generators, that taking responsibility for that
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being true might be the kickstart the starting place for
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making that morning reminder that we're creative beings credible because
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there's no escaping that. And then doodling. I want to
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quickly comment on doodling. I was just a couple of
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weeks ago co facilitating a retreat and one of the
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participants is a doodler, and she was taking notes.
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Through doodling, she was.
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Creating art representations of what was being said. And yes,
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in her case, her art was really esthetically pleasing, but
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that part didn't matter. What mattered was that she was
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engaging the creative side of her brain in absorbing the information,
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which made it deeper and more durable for her.
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And that's a perfect example of the balance of yin
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and yang.
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Yes, it is, it is.
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And then I also want to really emphasize the massive
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value of the exercise. I mean, all of your exercises,
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the watercolor writing and prayer dots, I mean, they're all gems.
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And what I want to particularly underline as well, because
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it doesn't require any props, is grounding yourself into Mother Earth,
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bringing that grounding up through you and out the top
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of your head into the cosmos, and then asking the
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wisdom of the universe to shower down on and through
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you like a waterfall of light. That's an exercise that
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any of us can do. It takes very little time
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and we need no props for its us, so we
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can access at any moment we need to reconnect. So
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after our upcoming break, we're going to return for this
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episode's final segment, during which I'll be asked Lori Morse
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to again go into even more ways of accessing creativity
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in various parts of life. And I'm going to remind
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you about her wonderful gift that she has for you.
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I'm doctor David Gruder clearing his throat once again this
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Well.
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Before the break visual Alchemist, which is one of the
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ways Laurie refers to herself visual Alchemist, Laurie Morse and
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I discussed some ways to access creative moments in various
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parts of your daily life. And as I already mentioned,
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during the final segment of this episode, called Reimagining Creativity
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Part two, walking through the Doorway to your Creative Life Force,
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Laurie will reveal even more tips for remaining connected with
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your creativity on a daily basis in various parts of
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your life. And I'll then let you know about the
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special gift Laurie has for opening a deeper doorway into
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your creativity. And after that, Laurie and I will each
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share what we hope you've gained from this episode, followed
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by my closing comments. So, Laurie, what additional tips do
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you have that we have to court?
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So, yeah, I'd like to start out by offering a
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quote by Henry Matisse. He was an artist in the
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early nineteen hundreds, part of the Impressionist movement, and he
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has a quote that says the essential thing is to
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work in a state of mind that approaches prayer. And
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I'm not talking about prayer from a religious perspective. I'm
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talking about prayer from being aligned with our divinity, our
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sacred self, our higher self, our heart, and our soul,
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all of that alignment we mentioned earlier. And it's important
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for us to feel happy. We can't feel happy, we
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can't access peace if we don't have that kind of approach.
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So to make it simple, And by the way, when
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David mentioned if you don't remember when you get up
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in the morning, to remind yourself of your creative being,
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put it sticky note on your bathroom mirror. I can't
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tell you how many years I've been putting sticky notes
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in places to remind me. Because when I say that
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I'm going to remember something in the moment, it's very true.
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I can't imagine not remember and then five seconds later
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it's gone. So if you know that to be the
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way it is for yourself, then drop yourself little notes
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so that you can remind yourself. And I think the
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most important thing is to give yourself some leeway and
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some permission to be clunky about exploring your creativity. It's
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a beginner's mind thing. And you know, our human mind
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and especially older adult human minds, we don't like beginning anymore.
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But yet having a beginner's mind and moving through through
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that clunkiness is imperative. You won't get very far if
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you don't, you know, if you aren't willing to do that,
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and maybe you just say to yourself, I'm going to
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start out for a week and I'm gonna pick one
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of my favorite colors and I'm just gonna look for
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it around me. I'm gonna maybe put an article of
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clothing that that is that color on today and tomorrow
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will be a different color. Notice cars, Notice what's in nature,
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you know, blooming, Notice dishes, Notice all the things that
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that you end up around and see if you notice
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that color and that will activate something in you. That
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is that that is activating it is creatively an activation.
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And then and then you'll just follow those breadcrumbs. Again.
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This is not something that you switch a switch on,
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you know, like a light. It's something that you that
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you walk in to one step at a time. And
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in the beginning it feels a little dark and and
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maybe unknown, but that's okay because there's nothing that's gonna
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hurt you in the creative life force is as safe
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as it gets right. And then the other thing is
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that creativity has the capacity to heal. We mentioned that
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in the whole water color thing. So I would want
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for you to know that when you're intentionally engaging, by
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being connected to your heart and your soul and having
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the intention that you're creating whatever you're doing. It might
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be a dinner, it might be a setting the table.
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It might be you know, designing your living room with
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different color pillows or you know, anything like that, or
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maybe you're just looking at art because that's something that
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you enjoy. There will be a small voice that comes
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up that says things like, you're not doing this right,
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You're not good at this. You know you're not enough
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to be doing this, and this is what's programmed in
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the matrix. And we buy the actual choice to create.
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We're deprogramming ourselves from that programming. Right, So you set
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up any way you want. The way I do it
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is I when I hear those messagings, I say, I
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hear you, and it's not true. What's true is I'm
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a creative being and I'm playing right now. Nobody has
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criticism over a child just playing, you know, if their
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finger paints involved. No one comes up and says you're
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doing that wrong. That happens a little bit later in
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life when we get into school, and that is what
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has shut a lot of people down for thinking that
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they do have a creative aspect to themselves and that
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all of that is untrue, right, It's not true. So yeah,
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so I would say going and looking for and playing
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for color with colors is valuable. You may or may
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not know this, but there are twelve divine color rays
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and they all carry qualities. So for example, green is
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a ray that is healing, and violet is a ray
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that carries forgiveness and compassion and freedom. And you know,
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magenta is a ray that carries harmony. So if you
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know that these colors, and you don't have to know
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this to pick a color tomorrow morning at right now,
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you just trust that this is a color that your
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your system right now is really liking.
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I'm gonna I'm going to stop you there just for
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a quick moment because I feel a need to say
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that one of the things that is particularly magnificent in
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my opinion, about your artwork is that you design your
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art pieces to activate different rays, different aspects of human
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creativity and human consciousness, and that kind of healing art,
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that kind of art that that catalyzes by your consciousness,
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I think is rare and I just so respect you
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for that gift that you bring to the world through
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your art.
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Thank you, thank you, And we're all getting the invitation
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to play at that level. You know, like your your
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body is a canvas, so that can be one way
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that you you know, the way you dress yourself is
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one way to like engage in creativity. So and thank
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you for saying that. Yeah, it is very kind there.
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There would be no point for me to be doing
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you know, engaging and doing art if it didn't include this,
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So you know that's that's kind of important. So yeah,
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So I think that is the long and the shore.
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The other the other word that I wanted to throw
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in here is and I think Henry Matisse and his
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thing about doing things in a state of mind that
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it feels like prayer. The other word is reverence. I
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think like we've lost civility in our in our in
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our world. I don't think it's gone, it's just been
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kind of set to the side. We've also lost some reverence.
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And to the degree that you're willing to be civil
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inside yourself, not divided, and have reverence for yourself and
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your life, the life that you're tending around you, that
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matters to the collective and it makes a difference that
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we're choosing to sort of like be in a peaceful
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exchange with our creative life force rather than worry. David
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was saying, Oh, you know, we're creating all that, We're
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creating all the time, we just aren't acknowledging it. Worry
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is a form of creativity and it's not serving. So
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when you catch yourself doing that, and you will, it
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will come up. We have long standing habits of this.
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It's why I love creativity. It's more fun to catch
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myself feeling like I'm not good enough when I'm painting
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a flower than it is to you know, in any
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other way, and then I can change that narrative, you know,
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and I do it very consciously.
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Nice And you know, there's so much that you've said
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that I wish I had time to underscore.
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I'm just going to underscore for the moment. Two things.
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One is about the permission to be clunky. Creativity access
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is liberation from perfectionism.
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That's it.
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Yeah, and worry is an example of a form of
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non helpful creativity. So starting to learn how to recognize
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moments when you're channeling unintentionally channeling your creativity in non
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serving ways like negativity as an example, is a really
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crucial bridge into accessing your creativity for more serving ways.
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And so I need to move on into our next
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portion of the segment. Throughout our conversation in this episode,
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we've explored why one of our prime directives is consciously
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cultivating our creativity from moment to moment and why that's
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so important. And I now want to remind you again
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as I did in the first part of this two
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part episode, about the exquisite gift Laurie is providing.
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I'm getting choked up.
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run on sentence, because that's all we've got time for.
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What's the big takeaway you hope our audience received from
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this part two of this two part series.
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Yeah, I think the biggest one is that it matters
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that you that you access your creative self, whether it's
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to view and appreciate or to engage in and let
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that grow over the span of your life and realize
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that it's a bridge so that you bring your humanity
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and your divinity closer and closer together for ongoing alignment.
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Beautiful and mine is that creativity is a cornerstone of
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elevated living in every part of life. That every behavior
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can be done through your cre creative without exception. So
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make the creative life force one of your best friends
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that you remain in connection with each and every day.
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Mister Rogers would say creativity is your best friend. So
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as we move toward wrapping up this episode, I want
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to let you know again how to access more of
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Calm Series gift again is available through the sess dot
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art at loriimorseart dot com.
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That's right.
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So thank you so very much, Lourie for helping us
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understand even more deeply during this second part of this
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two part mini series how to deepen our ongoing access
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to our creative life force and why doing this is
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so supremely important, and.
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For being here on my show, My Joy.
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Thank you and thank you all for joining me for
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this episode of Reimagining Humanity's Future and Yours on the
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Cancom Broadcast Network, proudly broadcasting from Canada to the world.
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Every civilization ultimately becomes an expression of the consciousness and
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creativity its people cultivate. That's why Reimagining Humanity's Future in
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Yours explores the inner capacities that shape our collective future
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in as much as the outer challenges we face. So
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until next time, practice accessing your creative life force today
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and then let it become a conscious act of your
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daily life. This has been doctor David Gruder, the futurist,
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polymath of human potential, bottleneckbuster, and civilizational architect who equips
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leading edge leaders influencers in you with frameworks and skills
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that make it possible for humanity's most spiritually elevated future
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to at last urge, I invite you to explore my
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main website, Doctor Gruter dot com. That's d R g
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r U d e er dot com, where you can
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find a link to the to the show's episodes, and
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to other resources. The world needs you. Your nation needs you,
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your community needs you, Your loved ones need you, your
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business needs you.
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You need you.
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So until next time, keep elevating your capacity to fulfill
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your highest calling. So together we succeed at building an
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elevated future for ourselves and for humanity.
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School School
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