Hello and welcome to the Cosmic Nomad.
I'm your host, Bailey Rushlow, and this is a space for the
curious and the heart LED where we explore the human experience
through travel, nature, spirituality and real life
transformation through beautiful conversations.
As I discover my way of living, what I call an inspired life, I
share the practices, stories, and perspectives that have
helped guide me back to myself. Hello everyone, welcome to
today's episode. I'm so glad you're here joining
me for journey today. I'm coming at you live from
Bavaria, Germany, and I kind of love that.
All of the last episodes I've been coming from somewhere
recording this true cosmic nomad style.
And in this episode, we're going to reimagine together the whole
idea of the Five Year Plan. We're not going to be focusing
on goals and checklists, but talking about the way we want to
feel and how this can become a compass for our lives.
So we're going to be sharing practical tools and practices
that help you dream your life in a way that is actually soul lead
and heart lead. And this is about moving beyond
performance and into creating a life that actually feels aligned
and one that feels like yours. So let's take a deep breath
together and end out ready. I feel like we don't do that
enough in life. If you need another one, please
do that now. Come back to your breath
throughout the episode and throughout your day.
Honestly, that I, I spend a lot of my day reminding myself to
deep breathe because I get stuck in my head.
I get stuck in the moment of what's happening.
And you know, the breath is often the first thing out the
window when really it is it is something that is so important
and so grounding to our body and to our our mind, our heart, our
thoughts, all of our systems, our cardiovascular system, our
nervous system, our circulatory system, our digestive system,
all the things connect through our breath.
So just a little reminder there. I've also thought about doing an
episode on breath work, maybe even guiding us through some
practices that have supported me.
I'm not a breath work practitioner, but it is
something that has really greatly helped my life.
So maybe in the future anyway, please make yourself cozy and at
home, whether that is going out and walking your dog or having a
smoke break or making a smoothie or doing some stretching on the
floor while we dive into this topic.
That makes me feel so alive and I hope that it does the same for
you. I think I said this in the last
episode, but I record these episodes for all of you to, to
learn, to grow, to to evolve by me sharing my own life
adventures and journeys and experiences.
But even more than that, and selfishly, I record them for
myself because not only is it great practice for me to put
into words what I feel and what I've been, you know, gone
through in life, things I've learned that have helped make
this crazy journey a little bit easier.
But also that I can listen back through my life as like a
timestamp of where I've been and hopefully as a, a form of road
map to where I'm going. So that said, talking about
plans and, and the future, you know, usually when we talk about
these things, it's, it's about the doing right.
How many times have you been asked what is your five year
plan? Where do you see yourself going?
What are you hoping to achieve? What's your what are your 10
year goals? You know, like it's, it's all
about doing, it's all about the, the house, the job, the
milestones. But the truth is so much of, of
our reality is not what we do. It's not based or created by
what we do, but how we feel and by what we believe.
And what we feel is vibrational. It is like a signal that we are
sending out from our mind to the world.
And when we become aware of our inner dialogue, like the the
thoughts that we have about ourself, about the world around
us, about the people in our life, about the things we do, we
can start to see how those shape the bigger dream that we live.
If you've ever read the four agreements or anything by Don
Miguel Ruiz, you have learned about Toltec wisdom.
And Toltec wisdom is, is such a beautiful way of life.
And basically they teach that our life is a dream that we have
agreed to, and it's made-up of tiny agreements and beliefs that
we've inherited or chosen. And maybe we've agreed, for
example, that success looks a certain way, or rest has to be
earned, or love is conditional. And usually we inherit these at
a very young age. Or we come into agreement with
them early on, and we make an agreement with something that
becomes a belief that informs our reality.
So someone who believes that rest has to be earned is going
to see and interact with the world very differently than
someone who doesn't have that belief or hasn't made that
agreement. And so that means that every one
of us is seeing the world through a different set of
lenses because the agreements we make, the beliefs that we
believe, they inform our reality.
And when we don't ever question what we believe or why we
believe, we start to live a lot of life from the subconscious
and in autopilot. And I've talked about this in
previous episodes, episode 5 and eight, I think, where deep dives
into these topics. But what happens when we start
to question, why do I believe what I believe?
We gain an awareness and we start to to realize, wait a
second, maybe I don't actually want to dream that dream.
When we notice the small agreements that we've made, we
can choose new ones. When we are unaware of the
agreements, we cannot choose new ones, right?
It seems very simple, but I and it and it is, but it's also very
complex because a lot of our beliefs and agreements we've
made in our subconscious are tied to all of our security and
stability in how we interact with the world.
Like it's very brave to go deeper and say, you know what?
I'm going to gather my tools. I'm going to, I'm going to
become an archaeologist in myself, in my mind, in my
subconscious, in my worldview and why I believe what I believe
because it is informing everything.
And until I do that, I'm probably living someone else's
dream or a number of other belief systems that have been
passed down to me or that I have absorbed through school or
church or work or trauma, etcetera.
Right. The Toltec way of life also
teaches us that the belief system is almost like a parasite
to the soul because it controls the way we think, move, breathe,
and act in the world, as opposed to it being our autonomous
choice. It's controlled by the parasite,
which is the belief system. Which is fascinating, right?
It's like, holy shit, it all starts making sense.
So how do we recognize and remember that we are the
dreamer? That we are in charge of the
dream that we are creating and constructing as our life and in
this in this reality. So how do we become the dreamer?
If our agreements are what shaped the bigger dream of our
lives, then becoming aware of them means that we get to step
into the role of the architect, right?
And instead of just living in the house someone else designed
for us and someone else's beliefs, we've realized that we
get to pick up the blueprint and the paintbrush and the hammer.
We talked about that a few episodes ago with not renting
your life, right? Living in in a proverbial home
of your life that you own, not just one that you rent that
you're barely living in, but one that you're fully embodied in.
But here's the thing, you know, the awareness of it alone isn't
enough. You can be aware of it all day.
But how do we begin to dream differently?
How do we begin to redraw the lines of the story that we're
living in and not just metaphorically or conceptually,
but in our everyday lives and our bodies in in an embodied
way? And this is where I think it
gets fun because there are some really great practices that we
can implement here. And it's not about fixing
ourselves or, or trying to follow the steps to make our
lives better. It's, it is about retraining our
system internally to not only recognize but embody the new
dream. And it's, it's a way of bringing
the invisible concepts into physical form and into radical
change. And it's, it's like moving from
thinking about change to actually living it.
So although a question like where do you see yourself in
five years is not inherently bad, it's it's great to
brainstorm and think ahead and have dreams.
But I think an even better question is how do you want to
feel in five years? How do you want your life to
look? If you could glimpse like
peering through a portal mirror into the life that you could be
living in five years from now, what would it smell like?
What would it taste like? What would it feel like?
What would the breeze feel like on your skin?
What would the clothes feel like that you're wearing?
What would you be cooking? What would you be eating?
What would your day look like? What would your rituals be?
Who would that person interact with?
What would that version of you think about?
What kind of music would they vibe out to in the car?
What kind of conversations would they have?
What places would they have travelled?
What kind of art would you have on your walls?
How would you spend your free time?
All of these questions invoke a feeling internally and I'm not
expecting anything from you. By the way, there is no
expectation for you to create some perfect idealized dream
life that's not real and that I will be proud of you because you
created the best version of all the people listening.
Like that's not, that's not the point.
The point of this exercise in these questions is to get you
dreaming a new dream. It's not about me.
I don't care what you choose. It's about you.
What do you want to feel? Because, and here is why this
reframe is so important. How often have you thought when
I get blank, fill in the blank $10,000 in my bank account, for
example, I'm going to feel this way.
When I get that promotion in my job, it's going to be so good.
I'm going to feel this way. Blank successful like I've
achieved something. When I lose 50 lbs, I'm going to
be XY and Z. The goals are not bad.
They're they're nice. They're they're it's great to
achieve things. I'll never tell you that that's
bad for you. However we have it backward.
When I do this thing, then I'm going to feel this way.
We got to flip the script. How do I want to feel?
And then what are the things that I need to do to get there?
That's how we flip the script because it's vibrational.
What you feel ripples out from you and creates the reality you
want to live. And I mean, how many times have
you said or heard people say, you know, I did all the right
things. I, I climbed the corporate
mountain, I got the wife, the kids, the family, whatever.
And then I got to the top of that pinnacle and I was there
alone. And that was it.
I had done everything I desired to do and I felt kind of empty.
So that's where these super fun practices come in because I
don't know if you know this, but humans are manifesters by
nature. Every single thought, every
emotion that we hold in our bodies is creating a vibration.
Vibration is what shapes our reality.
And we live in a world that wants us to forget that.
You know, we're told that we're just like another cog in the
machine or part of this endless rat race of humans just going
about life, doing our things will soon be forgotten.
We suppress our individuality and we downplay the power of our
choices. And honestly, I don't think it's
by accident that we've been taught to do that.
The larger systems at play, like capitalism, the patriarchy,
colonization, colonial thinking, they thrive when we forget how
much creative power we hold. So when I step back and I say,
wait, I am the dreamer. I am the one shaping this
reality. Oh, I got chills.
Suddenly the game changes. The script flips, right?
And if that sounds a little too woo, I just want you to remember
what Nikola Tesla said. Quote, if you want to understand
the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration,
UN quote. Everything around us is
vibrating. Sound waves, light waves, the
resonance of the earth itself. And our bodies are not
different. Our heartbeats, our brain waves,
even the way that our cells communicate.
It's electronic, it's frequential, and when we shift
the vibration inside of us, we're not just playing with
positive thinking, like we are literally tuning the instrument
of our lives to a different frequency.
That's why gratitude feels different in your body than
heartbreak. That's why excitement seems to
magnetize new opportunities while fear contracts.
And the problem is, most of us have been taught to forget that
power because the systems that we live in thrive on us
believing that we are just part of the rat race.
We just have to keep hustling, keep consuming, keep looking
outside of ourselves for answers.
But when you remember that you are the dreamer, you are the
gamekeeper, and the practices that I want to share, they're
not just rituals, they're not just positive thinking.
They are ways of training your nervous system and your energy
field to broadcast the frequency of life that you want and also
to train your nervous system how to hold the frequency of what
you want to live and to experience.
Because if the body doesn't know how it wants to feel or how
what's possible to feel it it, it's gonna have a very difficult
time just making it up and going with it.
Like you have to actually lay out a blueprint.
So these tools are blueprint tools.
And the first one is journaling. You might say straight away,
Bailey, I'm just not a journaling person.
And that's OK, that's OK. But I want to encourage you to
try something different because it's not just about writing your
thoughts down, it's about creating a mirror for the
subconscious. Because when you put words on
paper, you begin to notice the stories that you are
unconsciously repeating. Journaling.
For me, it's like it it it lets me ask myself, is this the
agreement I want to keep making? It shifts from me reacting
inside the dream to observing it.
And then? Making the necessary edits to
move forward with the script that feels aligned.
So when I journal, I don't write what I think I will want to read
from myself in the future. I don't write in a in a perfect
way editing myself and and no, I write exactly how I feel.
I cuss, I scribble, I draw doodles, I paste flowers and
four leaf clovers and feathers and little moments of
synchronicity in there to remind myself the magic that exists all
around me. It's where I go to write about
what I believe, about myself, about love, about money, about
rest, about work, about travel. And when I when I read back
through them, I ask myself, do these beliefs feel expansive or
constricting? You might be brand new to
journaling. You might have been journaling
forever. Regardless, I would love for you
to start a new journaling practice if you're really
serious about wanting to do this, Set the scene, light a
candle, make teas. It's a more quiet create an
environment that signals to your nervous system that something
intentional is happening. And I love to write down things
I'm grateful for. Sometimes my journals are just
gratitude lists of things I'm grateful for.
Big, small, tangible, whatever. Like I've slept well.
My favorite song came on the radio and the coffee shop,
right? It can be something small, but
just this shifts your vibration into receptiveness.
Receiving mode and ask yourself, how do I want to feel in five
years, or next year, or next month?
There is no time limit on this, but pick something that feels
aligned. For example, I'm going to be 30
in January. I've been doing a lot of
thinking about my 30th year, my 30th birthday, the way that I
want to feel, not only the things I want to do.
Well, yes, there are things I want to do in my 30th year, but
mostly I've been focusing on the vibration of what I want to
feel. So questions I might ask myself
are, what is the most aligned version of me do on a normal
day? What does her day look like?
She wakes up and then what? Another question might be, if
nothing was holding me back, what would I create?
And then just write without editing yourself.
No editing, it's not allowed. Give yourself 5/10/15 an hour,
however, however long you need. No censoring, no worrying if it
makes sense or not. This act of just writing free
flow let's your body feel what's possible and it clears the
clutter from your subconscious. And that's it.
That's your practice. It's one of them anyway.
And then close it out with reading it back out loud,
letting yourself feel it in your chest and your breath.
Feel what is beginning to vibrate in you and in your soul.
Because a lot of times when I've done this, I end up in tears.
I end up laughing, I end up getting chills.
There's a visceral response in my body, which means I have
shifted something, something else that I love to do.
And I don't do this enough. And I really need to because it
works. And I this one is, is really fun
too, especially if you love physical projects because making
a vision board or an embodiment board, a digital physical can be
through Pinterest can be setting an intentional space, lighting a
candle, making tea again, crew, setting the intention that
something big is happening right now and we're feeling into it.
Phone on do not Disturb, we're tapping in, we're going on
Pinterest. We're going to create a vision
board or a mood board of the things we want to feel.
What do you What colours do you want your life to look like?
What do you want your bedroom to feel like in the morning when
you wake up? What do you want?
Your breakfast through your meals to the instead of just
throwing food on a plate or in the microwave, what if you used
your nice China, the kind that is in the cabinet you only use
for guests? What if you used it for
yourself? What if you burned the good
candles? What if you created that
sanctuary in the corner of your house?
It's just for you, it's just yours.
So you can do this by collecting photos, videos, etcetera,
putting them all into a Pinterest board like a mood
board or with a Canva. You can also print it out and
put it on your wall. Like if you're more comfortable
doing digital arts, make it fun, make it creative, put words on
there that inspire you, the version of yourself that you
want to be. Who is she, Who is he, Who are
they? Or you can make a physical
vision board, but which I think is very fun, gathering materials
like old magazines, scissors, glue, poster board.
Maybe it's a color palette, maybe it's a forest or a dinner
table with friends, a passport, a mountain range, somewhere you
want to go, a place you want to make memories, something that
sparks or ignites something in you.
And what's interesting is from my from my own personal
experiences, when I have done this, 9 times out of 10, I have
either seen physically or felt physically or experienced
physically the things that I put on that board.
For example, I remember having this photo of palm trees and a
beautiful sunset on my board. And there was a point in the
year where I found myself looking out at a scene in real
life, sitting on a beach that looked just like the one on my
vision board. Because I planted the feeling of
that vibration on my board through art a year ahead, a year
before I was actually there physically.
It was like planting the seed for my subconscious that that
was possible for me. And when I felt it and when I
saw in real life and I went, man, this feels familiar
somehow. And I remembered my board and I
started tearing up and I thought, Oh my God, I made this
happen. I created this environment for
myself. Happened again with the
journaling element, where I was literally sitting on the beach
in Mexico, writing to myself on my phone, Free flow, everything
that I wanted to feel in my future partner, not just what
they looked like or what they did with their life, although
those things are important. How did I feel around them?
How did they make me feel? How did we interact with each
other? How did they think?
What did they see in the world and in me?
How were we compatible and what ways do we communicate?
Literally within a few weeks of that night, I met the person
that has been my partner for five years this year.
And of course, it's not only because I wrote down what I
wanted to feel, but I like to think that that actually did
play a big part in it because I recognized it as soon as it was
in front of me. Because I had already expressed
the vision from my heart out there into the world in the form
of my writing. And no one else read it.
No one else saw it. It was just for me personally.
But I feel like it became like an energetic blueprint, like I
drew the outline of a colouring page and the universe filled in
the colours with time. And that was an incredible
feeling. And you know, I'm not just
telling you this so that you will have one more thing to do
and add to the to the list of self help and Wellness stuff you
have to do in life to be whatever.
No, this is simply a hack that has worked for me that I would
feel silly gatekeeping because I've seen first hand how
powerful it is. So when you've created your
collage of vision board of, of things that you feel inspired by
and feel connected to, make sure as well that you that you choose
without overthinking, like let your body lead.
If something sparks joy, curiosity, excitement, save it,
cut it out, paste it, you know, add it to the to the pages
because it's, it's your body giving you information about
something and put the, the image or whatever you end up creating
somewhere that you'll see. It could be the background on
your on your phone screen, right?
It could be a, a folder that you open every day on your laptop.
It could be something on your wall, could be a collage that
you see when you're brushing your teeth in the morning in the
bathroom. You know that you, that you look
at and you observe and you remind your body of that
vibration. You can't just make it and, and
forget about it. I mean, you can, but that kind
of defeats the purpose, you know, because we want to
interact with it, spend 30 seconds a day and, and feel into
it. Imagine being there in that.
That's the vibrational piece that turns this from a nice
collage that you made once into a manifestation tool.
All right, let's move on from these two into a few others that
I think are so important before we wrap up this episode.
So the first one I call future self embodiment.
Instead of waiting for the vision of your future self and
the person you want to be someday air quotes someday to
arrive, we step into it now. How does your future self
breathe? How does she wake up?
How does he order tea? How does he go on dates?
How like walk the way that they would walk, dress the way that
they would dress. Because when you practice being
that person now, your nervous system literally codes it as
being familiar, and the more familiar it feels that, the
faster it becomes your baseline reality.
What do they eat? How do they move?
How do they interact with the world?
Do they take everything personal, this version of you
that you're trying to become? Do they make assumptions about
life? Do they gossip about everyone
behind people's backs? Do they do random acts of
kindness for strangers just because?
The next one that I have been doing for many years is having
an altar in my home. This altar is not only to the
elements, to my travels. I have jars of sand from Egypt,
relics from powerful places that I've visited, water from sacred
springs from around the world, feathers that have been gifted
to me by beautiful birds on my journeys.
But also, they're not just about objects.
They are like living maps. Each item is a code.
Each item is a symbol. Recently, my partner and I went
to visit Philip's grandfather. He's 98 years old and on the
table next to his bed, he has all of his favorite things, a
model car that he used to drive, his favorite snacks, photos of
his loved ones. And we were sitting there with
him, listening to him, Cher, about his life.
And I realised this is his altar.
It's a living space, A frequency that pulls a a vision into form,
like an anchor. And maybe your altar has
crystals and and nature and wildlife and Oracle cards.
Maybe it has items or totems of the version and the vision of
yourself that you're becoming. Or maybe it's a combination of
all of them. But it's not just about some
objects, you know, it really is like a a map and an anchor for
the vision and the version of yourself that you're becoming.
We can also do work with archetypes.
You know, sometimes we can't believe in ourselves yet for
many different reasons. For all of us, it can be
different, but we can believe in a story, we can step into an
archetype. Maybe you're a queen, a healer,
an explorer, a magician, A trickster.
Live as this person for the day, for the week.
Because when you embody A myth, your brain doesn't know that
it's pretend. So it literally builds new
pathways and suddenly you are no longer just playing pretend.
You are that person, you are that archetype.
What archetype calls to you, which archetype inspires future
thinking and inspires creativity, inspires joy in you?
Something also that you can do is tie your vision to your
senses. So we have so many incredible
senses and humans are so sensory, and we forget that this
can be a really powerful tool as a manifester of our future and
of our own reality, as a dreamer and creator of what this life
is, what you touch, what you see, what you hear, what you
smell, what you taste. How can we incorporate those
into today? I remember when my partner told
me when he went skydiving that they told him to bring Cologne
with him, a specific fragrance that meant something to him that
he smelled as soon as he landed on the ground.
So he's, he landed on the ground after, after jumping out of a
plane, you know, and smelled that fragrance.
And the the trick is that every time you're smell that smell in
the future, it reminds your brain of that feeling of
limitless freedom that you felt after skydiving.
And it's a way of future coding the moment by remembering the
incredible experience from the past.
So maybe when you write, you light a certain candle.
Maybe when you visualize the healing of your body, you hold a
certain herb with you. Maybe you smell Rosemary or sage
or something that you keep with you that that smell and that
scent and that sensory experience triggers the vision
into your reality. Maybe you are imagining your new
home, the place that you want to call in to be your anchor.
Maybe you sip a certain type of tea or a cacao while you do that
because every time you encounter that scent or touch or taste in
your daily life, it kind of collapses the distance between
now and the future. And it's a, you know, some
people might hear this and go, yo, that is so out there.
But it is actually like studied in neuroscience that when we set
these intentions and we find ways to embody them in the now,
it creates a kind of liminal space between right now and what
we're visioning that might feel far away, but it doesn't have to
be. And in fact, it can be a lot
more. And I don't know, time feels
kind of like an illusion sometimes.
So I, I think we can definitely play with it because there are
times in life, I'm sure you felt this as well, where time feels
very, very slow and others where time feels wicked fast.
And a lot of that is because of how you felt during the time
when you are waiting for news from someone in the hospital.
Time feels forever long. Even an hour can feel like a
day. But maybe you're on an
incredible first date with someone and you haven't felt
this way in a long time, and it's sparking something inside
you that you didn't know you could feel again.
And all of a sudden, a date. That was supposed to be two
hours suddenly turned into 12, and you have no idea how it
happened because time just speed by so fast, right?
Time moves differently based on how we're interacting with it.
So your dream and your vision of how you want to feel and the
person you want to be doesn't really have to be that far away.
A few more things, final things, rituals.
There are a lot of natural gateways, if you will,
throughout time. Sunrise, birthdays, full moons,
new moons, the 1st of the month, the first day you start your
bleed. Anniversaries, right?
They are perfect times to pause and set an intention at these
thresholds. They're like cracks in time
where your vision can slip deeper into the field that
you're creating. Also, before you sleep, plant a
question. Ask your subconscious.
Show me what I need to see tonight.
Maybe you drink mugwort tea or blue Lotus or chamomile, or sit
with a plant that calls to you for 30 days.
Write your dreams out on paper in the morning because dreamtime
is the ultimate playground for the subconscious and where we
can try out so many different realities without resistance.
Sometimes the ritual is simply to disrupt the script.
Maybe that looks like driving a different Rd. home or striking
up a conversation with a stranger.
Do the thing that makes no quote logical sense, but it makes you
feel alive. Because every time you break the
pattern, you tell your brain that we are not stuck, we are
not in a loop, we are not on autopilot, we are infinite.
We can do whatever we want. We are the dreamers, we are the
creators of this reality. Like sometimes I'm walking home
and I am in complete autopilot, making the same turn I always
make, smiling at the same people doing the same thing.
And there's a place in time for that.
But if I really want to fuck up the Matrix a little bit, I'm
going to be like, I'm taking a right here when normally I take
a left and all of a sudden I'm on a new timeline, right?
What if I go to the shop and instead of ordering a decaf
cappuccino like I always do, I get a London Fog, right?
It's so simple and it's so subtle.
But the changing of the timelines often relies on those
really subtle changes that eventually create ultimate and
lasting change. That might sound really silly,
but give it a try and see what happens.
Because a lot of the time, following your intuition and
getting out of autopilot by breaking the mold of what you're
typically always do leads to really incredible magic and
gratitude. Gratitude is the fastest
wormhole to a new timeline because when you feel it deeply,
your nervous system releases chemicals of safety and joy,
literally. And from that state, life starts
to kind of reorganize around you in a new way.
I had a experience last week like this where I was going into
town and just kind of going on what I call a wander, which is
where I don't have an intention specifically for what I want to
do. I'm not like, oh, I have to go
here, here, here and here. I'm just like, I'm just going to
go and see how the day unfolds. I'm going to start by getting
up, getting dressed, eating and getting on a bus and seeing
where it takes me. So I've got on the bus to go
into town, ended up getting on the wrong bus.
And I'm not that there is a wrong bus, but not the bus I had
intended to get on. And I ended up meeting this
woman who looked like she was really just having a rough day.
And her and her daughter, they had this huge suitcase and I
could tell they were in a hurry. It was looked really heavy.
And I said, can I help you with your case?
She was like please, that would be so helpful.
We are really late for our flights.
I overslept. I'm super flustered.
I'm in a hurry. And I was like, well, I actually
have nothing going on right now. I'd be happy to carry it to the
station for you. Like, before I could even think
what I was saying, these words were coming out of my mouth.
And she just looked at me and was like, oh, my God, for real.
Like, yeah, yeah, for sure. It's no problem.
So I carried her case to the train station just, you know, I
don't know, a few blocks away from where we got off on the
bus. And she was like, man, I just, I
wish we had had a chance to eat. We didn't get to eat anything
today and I said, Oh well, you're in luck because I always
have snacks. So I pull out of my bag a couple
granola bars, some apples. I'm like, here you go guys,
enjoy your day. I hope you'll make your flight
and carried on my day. And I walked away from her with
a little tear in my eye and joy just reverberating from my whole
heart and my whole being. Because I have had people do
stuff like that for me in the past.
And this felt like a chance for me to just give back and show up
for somebody else who needed help and who needed support in a
moment. And I had the energy to give to
her. I don't always, but I did that
day. And by getting to show up in
mindfulness and give someone else love, it altered my day and
altered the timeline that I was on to be feeling so much more
gratitude than I was even that morning because I woke up in a
little bit of a funk. And like after that, I was
feeling so good, so aligned. And my next thought was, I
wonder who I can help next? I was like, wow, how much just
this one act of of random kindness did for me.
I'm glad that it helped her, but selfishly, I am really grateful
for the boost that it gave me to feel.
And that is an example of the version of myself that I want to
be living in all the time. That's the version I want to be
at 30 and 35, that is living in a place of constant gratitude,
that has the space in her life to go on a wander, to get on the
wrong bus, to help somebody out that needs it, to have extra
food in her bag that she can easily give away to other people
who need it more than she does. So thank you for coming on this
journey with me. I hope that this doesn't feel
like a big list. You've got to go do.
This is not some Wellness practice you've got to maintain
to become no, these are just tools.
Just tools. Take them or leave them.
Pick one, take one, leave the rest, whatever.
But please stay consistent with whatever 1 you pick and watch
the timeline unfold. Get really, really fucking clear
on who you want to be and how you want to feel and watch life
meet you there. Thank you so much for listening
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