Kimberley has had an amazing life journey Kimberley is a Soulcologist and the founder of Soulcology™. She is an Intuition and Soul Purpose Mentor, teacher and speaker, she guides Entrepreneurs, Explorers and Everyday Women to find the clarity, confidence and courage to listen to their intuition, heal past experiences and find and fulfil their souls purpose. What she loves the most is helping women to make their life a moment that matters™

Facebook Group: The Soulcology Collective -
 https://www.facebook.com/groups/thesoulcologycollective

Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/kimberley_banfield_/, https://www.instagram.com/soulcology_/

Bio: Jordan Scott, Director of the Estate of Health,

Jordan Scott is a Holistic Health Practitioner, specializing in the spiritual and energetic healing arts of Reiki, Shamanism and Vibrational Healing. She has been exploring sound as a modality of healing since her first yoga teacher training in 2012 using mantra, breath and toning to create specific effects in the body, mind and energy system. Her connection to shamanism furthered her discovery of sound and song as a powerful healing tool, and has been cultivating the power of her own voice for over a decade. She studied Holistic Resonance Healing in 2019 which expanded her understanding of the healing potential of conscious vibration. She offers public and private sound bathing sessions and integrates sound therapy into all of her treatments. She is also a Reflexologist and Holistic Health Counsellor. Jordan created Estate of Health, a holistic wellness center and yoga studio in 2019 with her mother, Heather Scott, where she has drawn together several gifted practitioners and teachers to facilitate healing and growth for the community. Connection to nature and the healing potential within all of us continues to guide her on her path of learning, sharing and loving!

https://estateofhealth.ca/

https://www.facebook.com/EstateofHealth

Jilda Farias

Classically trained vocalist, Jilda Farias, has been a performer since birth, always putting on a show whenever and wherever encouraged. This innate interest led to many opportunities studying the performing arts throughout adolescence and early adulthood; from joining community theater groups performing musical theater classics and entertaining folks with her favourite songs in retirement communities to later on competing in music festivals and performing roles in operas in a range of different languages, her love of storytelling has only deepened with experience. Since graduating in 2012 from The Cleveland Institute of Music with a Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance, her community involvement, specifically her time conducting community choirs and musical theater groups, has peaked interest in the health benefits of the vocal arts, from improving breath control, increasing vagal tone, and processing difficult emotions. It's her mission to share the amazing abilities of the human voice and help others claim their birthright to express themselves through song.

Kimberley Banfield is the founder of Soulcology™. As a Mentor, Speaker and Teacher, she guides and supports women to find the clarity, confidence and courage to listen to their intuition, heal past experiences and find and fulfil their Soul's Purposes. What she loves the most is helping women to 'make their life a moment that matters' through living a 'soular-powered™' life.

Instagram: @kimberley_banfield_ https://www.instagram.com/kimberley_banfield_/

@soulcology_https://www.instagram.com/soulcology_/

Resources (the journal) etc. can be found here: https://linktr.ee/soulcology

Vani Kennedy is founder of Yogic Living. She guides working women to successfully surviving stress with clarity of their whole selves so they can amplify their wellness, energize their work and goals, and be a positive force on the issues that matter to them while doing it all.

Vani Kennedy is a modern living hippie. She uses timeless tools to live sustainably in the modern world, and guides working women to successfully surviving stress to build their own toolkit for sustainable wellness, energy for their work, and be a positive force on the things they care about.

https://www.instagram.com/modernlivinghippie

Resources:
https://linktr.ee/jivasisters

We will be talking about:

Human Design Chart 
Purpose of the information 
7 centres versus 9 centres 
Vehicle, passenger and driver p 22 What is it?
What are the systems that are considered in the Body Graph chart? 
What are the 5 Types? Descriptions 

Aura 
Strategy 
Authority 
Profile 
Definition 
Self and Not-Self 
Signature 

Conditioning and Deconditioning 

Why have your chart done? Benefits 

How has it impacted our lives? 
Where can people find out about their Human Design? 
Where did the Human Design come from? A wee bit of history.

Kimberley Banfield is the founder of Soulcology™. As a Mentor, Speaker and Teacher, she guides and supports women to find the clarity, confidence and courage to listen to their intuition, heal past experiences and find and fulfil their Soul's Purposes. What she loves the most is helping women to 'make their life a moment that matters' through living a 'soular-powered™' life.

Instagram: @kimberley_banfield_ https://www.instagram.com/kimberley_banfield_/

@soulcology_https://www.instagram.com/soulcology_/

Resources (the journal) etc. can be found here: https://linktr.ee/soulcology

Vani Kennedy is founder of Yogic Living. She guides working women to successfully surviving stress with clarity of their whole selves so they can amplify their wellness, energize their work and goals, and be a positive force on the issues that matter to them while doing it all.

Vani Kennedy is a modern living hippie. She uses timeless tools to live sustainably in the modern world, and guides working women to successfully surviving stress to build their own toolkit for sustainable wellness, energy for their work, and be a positive force on the things they care about.

https://www.instagram.com/modernlivinghippie

Resources:
https://linktr.ee/jivasisters

We will be talking about:

Human Design Chart 
Purpose of the information 
7 centres versus 9 centres 
Vehicle, passenger and driver p 22 What is it?
What are the systems that are considered in the Body Graph chart? 
What are the 5 Types? Descriptions 

Aura 
Strategy 
Authority 
Profile 
Definition 
Self and Not-Self 
Signature 

Conditioning and Deconditioning 

Why have your chart done? Benefits 

How has it impacted our lives? 
Where can people find out about their Human Design? 
Where did the Human Design come from? A wee bit of history.

 She is an experienced canoeist and hiker, Gillian has visited the locations where Gift of the Loon takes place to experience their natural beauty firsthand. Stopping at nothing to research her writing, Gillian has even taken art classes to gain an understanding of what it feels like to hold a paintbrush, how to use a palette knife, and to experiment with colour. Gillian lives in Chatham, Ontario, Canada with her husband, and two children, who are both also writers.

visit her blog at gillianAndrewsauthor.blogspot.com

Karen is the creator of Peacock Memories Retreat. Struggling with grief for six years following the passing of her youngest daughter, she healed her grief and found her power within (her What’s Next).

Karen began her journey of finding self-love along with her passion for being a spiritual person, which led her to becoming a Certified Dare to Declare Vision Board Facilitator. This was the start of wanting to learn more to become a full circle Wellness Centre. She is now Certified as a Practitioner in the following fields, NLP, Hypnotherapy, Reiki. 

She is also a doTerra Wellness Advocate, certified in Aroma Touch Therapy and the creator of the Peacock Relaxation Session. Karen has a mission in life to help others find their What’s Next at a younger age than she did. Life is a short journey for some, don’t look back and wish you had done something different. Join us at our Imagine Wellness Retreat and change the direction you choose, to walk, on your journey.

You get in touch with Karen at https://linktr.ee/peacockmemories to learn more!

She is a College professor (second career) and helps students make the transition from online learning to successful entrepreneurship. She achieves this by teaching them how to get from where they are to where they want to be.

LouAnne started my coaching business in 2018 to help as many students as possible dealing with the sometimes overwhelming prospect of starting a new business while still completing their education.

In her coaching practice, she provides the tools, strategy, and support to help people create meaningful changes in their lives.  LouAnne loves her work because helping people be successful is deeply meaningful to her. 

One of the things that separates her work from the work of most other coaches, and it is one of the reasons this work is so successful, is that the first step of any coaching is to create a safe space. A space in which people feel safe enough to open up and be vulnerable enough to tell the truth about their goals and dreams, their fears and limiting beliefs, and to own their core genius and unique abilities. 

LouAnne struggled with the same challenges her clients face.  She is very familiar with the pressure of job deadlines, going back to school, family obligations, and feelings of inadequacy. She gets it and knows there is a better way. Coaching transformed her life.  It is her life’s purpose to help as many people as she can to create a life they are proud of.

https://louannehunt.ca/

https://www.facebook.com/lahunt62

Gillian combines her love of writing about women who are in search of themselves, with her desire to inspire women through her wellness retreats. Each venue is a path, a story towards the transition of a woman’s life. Gillian has years of experience as a leader in several different fields. She has taught fitness classes for adults and children, facilitated spiritual book studies, and been a part of designing women’s retreats. She finds great satisfaction in watching the changes that takes place as women discover their true path. She is a trained Stephen Minister, helping people in crisis, and her 26 years of spiritual study has changed the direction of her own life, and she now hopes to assist others in changing the direction of theirs. 

Karen is the creator of Peacock Memories Retreat. Struggling with grief for six years following the passing of her youngest daughter, she healed her grief and found her power within (her What’s Next).

Karen began her journey of finding self-love along with her passion for being a spiritual person, which led her to becoming a Certified Dare to Declare Vision Board Facilitator. This was the start of wanting to learn more to become a full circle Wellness Centre. She is now Certified as a Practitioner in the following fields, NLP, Hypnotherapy, Reiki. She is also a doTerra Wellness Advocate, certified in Aroma Touch Therapy and the creator of the Peacock Relaxation Session.

Karen has a mission in life to help others find their What’s Next at a younger age than she did. Life is a short journey for some, don’t look  back and wish you had done something different. Join us at our Imagine Wellness Retreat and change the direction you choose, to walk, on your journey.

In addition to a long career in Financial Services and raising 3 kids, Arlene has been "creating" in one way or another her entire life.  She has played in all mediums of arts and craft making, spending the last 7 years as a professional artist and instructor.  

During the past 3 years (as a result of the Pandemic) she has been focusing on her next journey of creativity - building tiny houses on her property out east!  

Creativity knows no bounds and through her art-making and her travels there is always something new on the horizon. 

Having discovered her own What's Next? about 10 years ago, she is happy to share her journey and insights with all of you.   

Next Retreat: Women's Wellness Retreat
May 6 & 7, 2023
Location:  Peacock Memories Retreat
                 1093 Lakeshore Road 105
                  Lakeshore, ON
Find more information at: 
https://imaginewellnessretreat.weebly.com
Follow them: https://www.facebook.com/ImagineWellnessRetreat

Let's take a look a the word Transformation – 
A thorough or dramatic change in form or appearance

A metamorphosis

Extreme radical change

Transform – to change in character or condition; to  change in composition or structure

Trans – go to the other side of; beyond or through

 “Restorative Yoga is the use of props to support the body in such a way that elicits a healing response. The response should be a deep relaxation- the deeper the better so we are actually stimulating our deep parasympathetic nervous system when we do this practice. The parasympathetic nervous system is in charge of everything that makes life wonderful and long: fertility, digestion, immunity, relaxed diaphragmatic breathing, the body healing itself internally, lower blood pressure, etc. etc.” ~ Andrea Peloso

Get in touch with Andrea Peloso here: 
https://andreapeloso.com/

https://www.theconnectedyogateacher.com/019-restorative-yoga-andrea-peloso/

https://www.instagram.com/andreamariepeloso/?hl=en

In this episode, I have the pleasure of having John Sullivan, The Relationship Coach as a guest speaker. Today we will give you a quick review of 5 books that will give you information and tools to move your relationship forward no matter what stage you are in your relationship.

The good, the bad or the ugly.

Here is a little information about John Sullivan:  

John was a teacher and coach at both the high school and college level. He earned a Masters in Counselling Psychology at the Adler School of Professional Psychology and then was personally trained by Dr. Harville Hendrix as both an Imago Relationship Therapist and as a Getting the Love You Want workshop presenter. He has been giving workshops and seeing clients around the States and Canada for the past 33 years.
"I prefer the term coach, to therapist or counsellor, as the connotation around those words is that there is something wrong with the person; whereas, as a coach, there is nothing wrong with my players, but sometimes what they are doing is not working. I believe the same is true of relationships." John.S

GET IN TOUCH WITH JOHN SULLIVAN

Website: John Sullivan Counselling https://johnsullivancounselling.com/ 

email jfauchersullivan@gmail.com

office 519 966-1408

cell 226-346-2503

Using his years of knowledge and various techniques, John works with his clients to create the relationship they truly want. As a counselor, teacher, and coach, he helps provide clarity and growth when relationship values become misaligned.

After experiencing their own relationship difficulties, John and his wife Crystal were introduced to the Imago Therapy system. Founded by Harville Hendrix, Imago Therapy is based on a system of four basic relationship skills.

I was nervous in this episode as we are sharing on a public platform about our relationship as John is my husband and partner in life. I hope you enjoy this episode.

Get in touch with John:

https://johnsullivancounselling.com/

https://www.facebook.com/johnsullivancounselling

https://johnsullivancounselling.com/free-master-class/

Access his ebook here Dream Relationship: How to Make the Most of Available Tools for Your Happily-Ever-After 

Melissa’s Canadian best-selling book The Queen's Daughter describes in detail the assault and the aftermath of being a rape victim.

Melissa is past President of the Windsor and Essex County Sexual Assault Crisis Center (2005-2008), past president of the Windsor Women’s Economic Forum, founding member and past president of Ladies Exclusive Alliance (LEA) and a former Rotarian. She is the recipient of numerous awards and honors for her work in the non-profit sector and is the 2009 Athena Award recipient sponsored by the Windsor and District Chamber of Commerce.

In June 2015, Melissa was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Laws Degree from the University of Windsor and addressed the graduates with her inspiring message at the 103rd Convocation.

At the end of 2005 she closed her successful retail business after 20 years to devote herself to the “Cause” and to represent all the victims who do not yet have the courage to stand up and speak out.

You will learn how Melissa overcame the odds to become a successful mother, entrepreneur and friend.

This story is so compelling that Melissa's book has inspisred the production of the award winning short film Determined now available on DVD.  www.emotivefilms.ca

Most recently Melissa celebrated the launch of the highly anticipated sequel to  The Queen's Daughter.  Thick Skin not only continues her story but it focuses on the aftermath of trauma answering the many questions that victims have asked over the years. 

Social Media Links:

https://www.queens-daughter.com/home

https://www.facebook.com/search/top?q=queen%27s%20daughter%20publications%20ltd

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJnFyGDW0zTnRWgEQGEM81A

Vikki discovered numerology over 40 years ago and as she tell us about her journey, you will learn how it has impacted her life and the lives of those who have chosen to work with her. She has taught numerology as well as lead workshops across Canada and  She has also trained numerologists in Japan. 

We will be talking about:

How she discovered numerology
∙         How it helped Vikki
∙         What numbers are
∙         What numerology is
∙         No one is ever just one number
∙         No number is inherently good or inherently bad
∙         What we can learn from our name
∙         What we can learn from our date
∙         What is a personal year

Get in contact with Vikki MacKinnon through Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/VikkiGotYourNumber/
or contact her at numerology@shaw.ca. 

Sign up to get on the waitlist for the upcoming Soul Classes and Program that will teach you what a comfort zone actually is so you can get out of someone else's comfort zone and get into YOUR comfort zone. Here

 Facebook Group: The Soulcology Collective -
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Dark Confessions of an Extraordinary, Ordinary Woman explores the dark consequences of domestic violence, drug use, and depression. Dirty Secrets of the World's Worst Employee addresses bullying and sexual harassment in the workplace. Cottage Cheese Thighs delves into how societal expectations and marketing ploys harm our body image.

The Survivor Series, Her Own Hero and Her Beauty Burns, are action-packed, suspenseful fictional stories proving that women have the power to save themselves. 

Her "True Tales" Series unintentionally began with No Kids Required, the true stories of 20 trailblazing women who've chosen not to have children. Women Ready to Rise expanded the series, showcasing 22 inspirational stories of turning tragedies into triumphs.

Jenn Sadai is a proud Canadian, born in Windsor, Ontario, where she resides with her heroic husband and two lovable labs. Jenn can always be reached through the various social media accounts or by email at

https://jennsadai.com/

jennsadai19@gmail.com

https://www.facebook.com/Darkconfessionsofanextraordinaryordinarywoman

https://www.instagram.com/jennsadai/?hl=en

Self Esteem Series: Dark Secrets of an Extraordinary, Ordinary Woman, Dirty Secrets of the world’s worst Employee, Cottage cheese thighs – body shame that is prevalent in our society

We Rise By Lifting One Another: Women Ready to Rise – 22 women, these extraordinary, yet ordinary women rose again and so will you; No Kids Required – 20 women who have chosen to be childfree

The Survivor Series: Her Own Hero – Fiction: Her Beauty Burns - Fiction

Cynthia Ballard is my guest today. She is an intuitive Reiki Empath. She will share some insights, and stories and guide us through our meditation.

Visit her youtube channel for more Chakra Healing Music, Frequency Healing, and Meditation https://bit.ly/3U8X9Fb

This summer has been a time of rest and relaxation for me… When my grandchildren spend time with us in the summer, it is pure joy, even if they stretched my energy to its limits!  It is a time to focus on them and our relationships. 
I have been quiet on social media and just enjoying the abundance of summer. 
So, now as fall is upon us, I am reflecting back on the last 6 months of this podcast and thought it would be good to review where I have been and where I am going with it!
If you have been listening in, you will know that I am following the Alphabet on this journey to inner wisdom.  And there is method in this madness. In my work with my clients and programs, I always start with awareness, we move to beliefs and then to curiosity, which leads to decision making and decernment…so when I was sitting with these three words, I thought why not just continue…
I spent two months on E. Why? Because this cycle of awareness, beliefs, curiosity, discernment…uncovers emotions…and we often don’t deal well with our emotions…they get pushed down, buried, ignored and they become a source of pain and suffering. They become blocks to growth and awareness. 
I also spent time exploring the Enneagram a bit as it is such a wonderful, dynamic tool of growth and wisdom.  When I came to F, I wanted to be get physical on this journey so Forest Bathing in the spring took us out into nature and the wisdom of the trees. Gratitude is essential on this journey, and I often forget to be grateful for the abundance in my life. On that note, I want to thank all my wonderful guests over the last six months who have shared their journey and their insights on the journey to inner wisdom. 
I then spent time with grief…from a selfish perspective as my niece had died this spring and I was struggling with my own grief process. And then on a practical note H was heart powered coaching and hand analysis, I was Intuition, J was the journey of Devanni, and I missed K because I was taking a break, and you will get K today! I jumped to laughter yoga wit Katherine Kimmens, this was  such a therapeutic, informative and  energizing activity and last week Money with Jessica Marie. 
So my sense is that using the alphabet as my guide, I have been able to follow a system to talk about the journey to inner wisdom…so all this to say that I will continue to use the alphabet for my podcasts…although, I have to say x and z are a bit worrisome!!! But I am trusting my intuition on those and I am sure I will be surprised!
As with any journey, there are many ways to get to where we are going. In this journey to inner wisdom there are many tools and practices, paths and possibilities, and guides and mentors. Some we search for, some we bump into, and some are set down plunk in front of us whether we are looking or not. I will explore some of these tools and practices, paths and possibilities, and interview guides and mentors who may have an influence on your journey. On my own journey, I continue to discover both extraordinary wisdom and, in some ways, even more importantly the ordinary wisdom that is in front of my nose! 

We all have a different journey...what may strike one of us may not resonate with someone else. Our task is to be aware and awake in order to notice the invitations that are in front of us. 

So today, I invite you to relax and be aware of your different ways of knowing. I am going to talk about the clairs today. So what are the clairs…not eclairs…Clair means clear…so when I say clairvoyant…it means clear seeing. 
we have five physical senses. When we use our five physical senses, we filter what we see, hear, touch, feel and taste through our belief systems, through our personality, so it is an interpretation of reality.  
Our intutitive senses, often called clairs are different in that they are soul senses and clair means clear…untainted by our perception. So clairvoyant is clear seeing.

When I teach the awareness exercise we begin with the five physical senses …what we see, hear, touch, smell or taste. These senses are connected to our brain which interprets what we are sensing. We then become aware of our emotions, how we react to what we are aware of around us. The next level is tuning into our intuition and imagination…here is where we begin to access the senses of our soul…our clairs! 
By DR SANJAY TEOTIA on November 10, 2020, in Practical Spirituality
There is a voice inside you that whispers all day long – and if you listen to this voice, you will know what’s right for you, says DR SANJAY TEOTIA

Intuition is the ability to acquire knowledge without taking recourse to conscious reasoning. It is a process that gives us the ability to know something directly without analytical reasoning, bridging the gap between the conscious and non-conscious parts of our mind and also between instinct and reason. We all need to learn to listen more to our intuition or soul and not to the negative voice of ego and fear, the voices of doom, which is also the voice of our mind. 

We are all intuitive and we all have soul senses or clair senses…often times as children when we are experiencing our clair senses, we are told to pay attention, stop daydreaming, pay attention to the task at hand, we learned at a young age to not trust our soul senses,  our intuition…but we still have intuition…and we may have to pause to become more aware of it.
Let me first talk about each of the clairs and then I will give you a little exercise that will help you begin to once again access these intuitive gifts.
The first clair that most people think of is clairvoyant…being able to see clearly. You see images either still or like a movie. You may see them in your mind or above your head. You may use words like I see or I am seeing. You may say “this looks right or it doesn’t look right.”
Clair Audience is clear hearing. You may hear whispers, someone’s name, a song. You may find yourself saying I hear you or it sounds like…words that relate to hearing. 
Clair Sentience is about feeling. You might say: I feel…You are sensitive to the energy of others and the energy around you. You may get goosebumps or shiver. You feel something is right or wrong.
Clair alience means clear smelling…you can smell odors that aren’t physically present.
Clair gustance means clear tasting…this is when you taste something that isn’t physically present. 
These parallel our five phyicical senses. And there is one more..
Clair cognizance is about knowing.  You just know things that it seems unusual to know. You may be making a big decision and you wake up in the morning and you just know the answer. There is a certainty about your knowing. You use the words’…I know…
So how can we get in touch with our clairs…our soul senses.

Well, think about daydreaming and what happens to us. We are transported somewhere and we lose track of our physical surroundings. Think of the last time you were daydreaming and what it was like…whether it was in a lecture, meeting, a boring party, waiting for someone to arrive for an appointment…or just sitting out on the deck in the sunshine…
Daydreaming, like night dreaming taps into our soul senses. So a great way to tap into your clairs is to sit and daydream. Try it now, if you are not driving or need to concentrate on something. Multi...

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After marriage and two children, the belief system that Devani was taught growing up, and the Mennonite religion, no longer resonated. She was ready for change and began searching outside the community for answers. She found yoga at a fitness center and after months of attending regular classes, she became stronger, more flexible and began to feel a sense of calm.

In 2007 she experienced an awakening that changed the direction of her life. It was an inner transformation that shifted her mind, body, and soul. With the deep desire to follow her heart and continue to learn, she made the decision to leave her marriage, family, and community in the search of freedom and empowerment. 

She experienced much pain emotionally, communication was a challenge and it was hard for her to speak her truth.
she blamed others for her life not working. Her addictions and attachments were keeping her in a state of suffering.
She has the desire to help people move through their struggles and suffering so that they can live a free and empowered life.  she teaches others to trust their Inner Being and return balance to their physical body with yoga, meditation, breathworks and Ayurvedic Natural Medicine.

Social Media Links:
https://www.devanniyoga.com/
https://www.instagram.com/spirituallifestylistdevanni/

Melissa McCormick: https://www.queens-daughter.com/publishingservices

From Mennonite to Yogi

Learn to live from the inside out.
​
If you don't speak up for yourself and take charge of your life and your mind, someone else will.
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If you wish to change your outside world, your outer condition, you must first look into and purify the inside.
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We build strength, power, and courage with practice.
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Never give up.

You cant keep doing the same thing and expect different results. The seeds you plant today is what will spring forth tomorrow.
 
You can't blame others for your life and circumstances anymore.
 
You can't keep letting your mind, emotions, memories, and other people control you.
​
You know that there is a power within you that can help guide you to a more fulfilling and joyful life, free and empowered.
In this fascinating autobiography you will learn how one woman found the courage to leave her traditional Mennonite upbringing, her home, and her family in order to find the truth. Devanni’s incredible courage led her to a five-year, personal journey that changed her life forever. Devanni will share the many lessons learned including:

 
 The purpose of life
 The truth about God and Jesus 
 The value of meditation and breathworks
 Yoga and the daily practices 
 The power of Karma
 Freedom to follow your intuition
 Knowing that all the answers are within

 Devanni explains that her education did not come easily. She attended workshops, read constantly, and spent long periods of time within the disciplined walls of exclusive ashrams to learn the importance of structure, maintaining daily practices, observing with silence, and adhering to the strict rules.
 
During this exotic journey Devanni discovered how to love deeply, how to stay balanced, how to use her intuition, how to live with truth and how to develop her strong, unquestionable faith in God.

 Devanni was inspired and Divinely guided to share her story. She wants to help others move forward, to be authentic and true, to love themselves and to feel honest joy. Is there a longing or discontent in your life?

Are you ready to follow your heart's truth? Live the life you are
destined for and experience more joy and fulfillment, grab Devanni's book.

She will share the transformation that took place in her life. How she went from lack to abundance, from depression to joy, from doubting to
believing. She says "I know if I can do it so can you."

“There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition,
which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.” Albert Einstein

Link for the Real-Life Reasons You Don't Listen to Your Intuition; free
resource:  https://colossal-designer-5509.ck.page/8-real-life-reasons-resource

Tune-In Tools™ Guidebook: https://colossal-designer-5509.ck.page/products/5-tune-in-tools-
guidebook

The Intuitive Woman Program™: soulcology.teachable.com/p/the-intuitive-woman-program-self-
paced

Facebook Group: The Soulcology Collective -
 https://www.facebook.com/groups/thesoulcologycollective

Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/kimberley_banfield_/, https://www.instagram.com/soulcology_/

Connect with her at: https://www.instagram.com/birthofbella1967/?hl=en
https://vaginanista.com/ menopause, spirituality, politics, reviews, recipes
https://www.facebook.com/diane.bertolin

Overview: https://positivepsychology.com/benefits-of-gratitude/
Robert Emmons (2010), the preeminent scholar in this field, makes the argument that gratitude allows a person
to:
· celebrate the present
· block toxic emotions (envy, resentment, regret, depression)
· be more stress-resilient, and
· strengthen social ties and self-worth.

Gratitude research is on-going by experts worldwide!

Anticipation of springs potential, a summer full of growth, letting go in the fall of what is ready to move, and a winter engaged with rest and rejuvenation.

Working with healing horses, she carries the lessons they have shared with her. These beautiful animals are energy in the web of life. Once we can tap into this space we are able to see and feel it everywhere. 

Reiki in Nature is a beautiful coming together of healing energies. Nature Bathing of the Senses is a full sensory immersion in the beauty and wonder of nature. By slowing to the pulse and rhythm of nature, we listen to the whispers of our own intuition and discover a little more balance in life. Nature takes our breath away and breathes new life into us.

• Nature Guide – Lifetime Experience
• USUI Reiki Master – Canadian Reiki Association
• USUI Reiki Master Teacher – Truthful Healings, Windsor
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Welcome to A Journey to Inner Wisdom. I am Crystal Kotow-Sullivan, Wisdomologist and the host of this Podcast. In this podcast, I explore Wisdom particularly, the tools, practices, and guides that assist and nurture us on the journey to our own inner wisdom. 

As with any journey, there are many ways to get to where we are going. In this journey to inner wisdom, there are many tools and practices, paths and possibilities, and guides and mentors that/who we can avail for this journey.  Some we search for, some we bump into, and some are set down plunk in front of us. I will explore some of these tools and practices, paths and possibilities, and interview guides and mentors who may have an influence on your journey. 

I use the word tools because in whatever we do we have some tools - carpenters have tools, chefs have tools, artists have tools, teachers have tools...maybe not in a box but in a file! So too, there are tools for this journey. 

We all have a different journey...what may strike one of us may not resonate with someone else. Our task is to be aware and awake in order to notice when it is our time to embrace what/who is being placed in our path.

It is not always easy to know where to start! I tend to start my workshops and programs with Awareness, Beliefs, and Curiosity…so, I thought I should just continue with the ABCs of Wisdom…It may sound like a simplistic way to explore Wisdom...but anyway that we come at wisdom, Wisdom itself will be revealed as needed. And so I have continued with Discernment, Emotional Freedom Technique or tapping, The the Enneagram, And today The Emotion Code. 

I choose each topic because it can either illuminate our path on our journey or it is a tool or practice that we can use along the journey. 

Today I am doing something a little different. I recently read The Emotion Code by Dr. Bradley Nelson...in one day! I was so taken by his approach and the way he wrote about trapped emotions, that I couldn't put the book down. so I am going to do a book report today.

The Emotion Code methods and EFT are forms of energy work that combine the mind, the body, and its energy field to release emotions and stress that maybe causing discomfort physically, mentally and/or spiritually. 

Bradley's book was first published in 2007 and a new publication was released in 2019 with a forward by Tony Robbins. 

The Forward, Acknowledgments, and Introduction give you a good understanding of who Bradley Nelson is and the story of his healing journey for himself, his family, and his patients. 

Throughout the book you will find more insights into who his is and what he is about...it is a good story. 

Part 1 explores Trapped Emotions...what are they? How they get trapped, and how do trapped emotions impact our health and wellbeing. He defines trapped emotions as actually consisting of well-defined energies that have shape and form. Although they are not visible they are real.

How do they get trapped? 

First, our body generates the emotional vibration, and then we begin to feel the emotion and any thoughts or physical sensations that come along with it - knot in out stomach, constriction/expansion in our chest, dry mouth, etc. We choose to let the emotion go and we move on, after a few seconds to several minutes. 

When there is an interruption to this process, the emotion may get stuck or trapped in our body. The interruption may be a simple fright of someone unexpectedly walking around a corner or it could be more traumatic in nature...an accident, a fall, an argument, etc. 

We are then unable to release the emotion and it is stuck in our body rather than being released. These are the trapped emotions that Nelson is talking about. 

Throughout the book, Nelson relates stories of his patients as well as sighting testimonials about the results of using the Emotion Code to release these trapped emotions. They are interesting and engaging. Nelson uses muscle testing as a tool to access our subconscious mind and the trapped emotions that reside there. He has created an Emotion Code Chart that helps to isolate the name of/ kind of trapped emotion that is being identified - all with muscle testing. Later in the book he actually goes through different methods of muscle testing that can be used on oneself or with someone else. Disclaimer...this is a book review only, I am not a medical professional. If you have any type of ailment, be sure to consult a medical professional. 

Different physical effects of trapped emotions are discussed such as phobias, PTSD, night terrors even some physical injuries like knee and shoulder pain. In part 2 of the book he explores the energetic world and the realization that quantum theory shows we are all energetically connected. He further explains his introduction to the use of magnets in the release of trapped emotions. This section contains more theoretical information, which is interesting, but the practical section is part 3 of the book. So you may want to skip this part and go right to part three unless you are interested and enjoy the science behind his work...I do! 

In part 3 The steps to releasing trapped emotions are laid out in detail, including as I said different ways to muscle test, the questions to ask about trapped emotions, how to identify exactly what emotion is being targeted and then the process of releasing the trapped emotion. 

There are 10 different muscle testing techniques that he explains quite effectively. As well as the possibility to using a pendulum to test for trapped emotions. Personally the sway test works best for me. I trust it the most of all the other muscle testing. The illustrations were very helpful. Bottom line... 

In it all it is about trusting your intuition.

The steps to releasing the trapped emotions are laid out clearly and concisely. with a flowchart to assist you in the process of releasing trapped emotions. I found the steps easy to follow and the flowchart was a very useful as I was identifying my trapped emotions. It is important to realize that we can only release one trapped emotion at at time...so set aside some time to do this to go through the steps. 

Chapter 7 was very interesting for me as Nelson talks about inherited or intergenerational trapped emotions. We understand more about intergenerational trauma and its treatment, thanks to people like Gabor Mate. We may not even be aware of carrying intergenerational trapped emotions so Nelson adds a question when it is not clear where the trapped emotion falls on his chart. He will ask "Is this an inherited trapped emotion? Our subconscious mind will react and recognize this more specific question when using the chart.

When The emotion is clearly identified, the steps to release the trapped emotion are the same. 

I love Chapter 8 "The walls around our hearts" 

In his paper written in 2003, J. Andrew Armour, University of Montreal, states: 

"It is only recently that the neurocardiological aspects of heart disease have been considered anew.2, 4, 13, 14 The reemergence of neurocardiology, as the field is now called, has been driven by an increased amount of evidence demonstrating that complex and synergistic interactions occur between neurons in the heart and those in the brain." 

He further states that "The fact that the heart effectively possesses its own “little brain” has major implications with respect to neuronal interactions involved in regulatin...

Over the years in my personal growth and development as well as In my work as a guide, coach, and educator I have read, heard, and encountered these phrases..." we sleep through our lives, when we are awake, we can discover our true essence, we are like zombies walking, working, doing our lives. We are simply unconscious of who we are and why we are here. 

Someone recently asked me, what does that mean...I am awake...I know what I am up to...Sure we know what we are doing, and where we are going...but who are we really? We come into this world of time and space and inhabit a human body, then we develop a personality that is our persona or mask to protect ourselves...so who are we under the persona? Why do we need to protect ourselves? We develop our personality from early childhood as we come to certain conclusions about our environment. These conclusions constitute our belief system about ourselves, our caregivers, the world around us. 

Our personality gets us through life but we forget who we really are under this mask, we are asleep to our true self, our essence. 
If you think back to your early childhood, you may remember things when you felt and experienced your true self - happy, free, connected, joyful, adventurous, and more. But kids are vulnerable and sometimes come to mistaken conclusions about what is happening around them. From their fears and hurts, they create their mask, their persona, their personality. This personality is to protect them from the harshness of the world around them. And we all do a damn good job of creating our personality so that we can find our way in our world. But in the process amnesia sets in and we forget who we really are.

How, then do we rediscover our essence, our true self? How do we get behind the mask? 

What we often do is try to figure out how to work with our personality. We read self-help books, we go to therapy, we journal and notice our habits and patterns. This is all good and necessary work. We can figure out how to work with our personality and make some changes. 

The thing is that we are still working with our personality and may not have gotten to the beliefs behind what made our personality what it is in the first place. 

Getting to those beliefs, private perceptions and patterns will take us down a different path. We will begin to go behind the mask and start to wake up to our true essence. Have you ever wondered why the self-help industry is so large - or that self-help books continue to be best sellers after decades and thousands of books being published? We long to be known...to ourselves and to others. Our essence, our soul is pushing us to go behind the mask of our personality and discover our true self. 

And there are different ways to do that... for some people reading a book can wake them up - and life will no longer be the same. that has happened to me numerous times over my life. Authors like Claudia Black, Harville Hendrix, Carolyn Myss, Jean Houston, have impacted and changed my course in life. For some people, it is literature or fiction that can transform them. 

For other people, it may be a conference. I was once listening to Sharon Wegshieder Cruse at an Adult Children of Alcoholics conference and after 30 minutes she said something and I had to leave to take care of something critical in my life...it was a life-transforming moment. I was never the same person after that moment of clarity. 

For some people, it is working with a coach, whether a life coach, business coach, soul coach or spiritual coach. or working with a therapist or counsellor. Over the years I have worked with several therapists and spiritual directors and presently with a soul coach. Each experience took me deeper into who I am. Working with an objective professional opened my mind, heart and soul to new perspectives about myself and the world.

When I worked on my MA in counselling psychology, part of our requirement was to go to an Adlerian therapist. This was amazing as my underlying beliefs became clear to me and I was able to create new beliefs that were more supportive of my heart's desires. 
 
A workshop, a retreat, a program, a class, all have the potential to wake us up if we are open to waking up! Just as meditation, journaling, yoga, travel, art, music, etc., etc. I think deep down we long to know our true self and we are always looking for ways to wake up.

The universe provides us with endless opportunities to wake up. If we pay attention.

The enneagram is one of those tools that can wake us up - generally, someone who wants to know more is already waking up and searching for a way to become more fully aware.I have been working with, reading about, using, practicing with, playing with, researching the enneagram off and on for over 30 years. It is such a dynamic tool, that I continue to learn and deepen my learning about how effective it is in our awakening process. 

When my children were just entering their teenage years, we did a multi-family enneagram weekend. There were 7 parents and 7 kids between 9 and 15. As a community, we continued our conversations about how the enneagram helped us understand ourselves and our children and vice versa. Even after 25 years we sometimes relate to one another in an enneagram conversation!

So what is the enneagram? The enneagram is an ancient tool of wisdom. Some of the ancient Mystery Schools of Greece and Mesopotamia mention the enneagram. There is also evidence that the enneagram was part of the Sufi tradition. It is also rooted in mathematical laws and patterns. There are nine stopping points on the enneagram circle...by the way, ennea means 9 in greek. Each of the points is related to other points on the circle and we can learn from each of the ennea points. We gravitate to one of the ennea points but are influenced by other points depending on whether we are open to growth or we are regressing and hiding out. 

Some people use the enneagram only on a surface level as a psychological tool to understand personality types much like the Myers Briggs Type Indicator. 

For me, the real richness of the enneagram is to take it to a deeper level where we begin to look at 

• why I developed my particular persona in the first place
• What are my blind spots
• how to recognize when I am living unconsciously
• how do I wake up and discover my true essence in my ennea point
• What can I learn from the other spaces around the circle?
• How do I continue to live my authentic self without judging my personality/persona/mask

Right now I am nearing the end of my 10-week Enneagram program. Let me walk you through how we are exploring each of the eanna spaces. 

The overall approach is the Awareness, Beliefs and Curiosity Cycle. We begin exploring each Ennea space with Awareness -What is the centre of knowing for each ennea space...is it body, heart or mind? 

What is the perspective of the ennea space?

What is the focus of attention of each ennea point? 

We then begin to look at Beliefs - these are recognized as the patterns that we engage in in our lives, the blindspots - what we don't kn...

Hi everyone, welcome to Journey to Inner Wisdom. Today I am going to talk about EFT – Emotional Freedom Technique – E in the Wisdom alphabet! You may know EFT Simply as tapping. 

I have been using Tapping myself and with my clients for over 30 years, as well as worked with a practitioner to get at some deeper shifts about 10 years ago. 

I love Tapping because it is easy to learn and use. I can teach my clients how to tap and they can use it on their own. 

I often use it when I am driving and I get angry or frustrated with other drivers. I can tap at the stop light!  Over time you will find that some tapping points work better for you than others. 

For those who are not familiar with EFT, it evolved first from Applied Kinesiology (1960s) which is based on muscle testing. In the 1980s, Roger Callahan used a diagnostic procedure using muscle testing along clients tapping on acupressure points which he paired with exposure therapy to develop Thought Field Therapy. Gary Craig, in the 1990s, dispensed with the muscle testing and used 13 meridian end points. This then developed into EFT which can be learned and used by anyone.

It is based on acupuncture points on our body. Acupuncture has been around for over 2500 years and it is based on the energy flow in the meridians of our body. Typically, acupuncture is applied with needles, but we also know that if we apply pressure to certain points we can get similar results. Both acupuncture and acupressure are based on the energy flow through the meridians in our bodies. When these meridians are blocked, we can become ill. There are 12 meridians running in our body according to Chinese medicine.

Tapping is based on 9 energy points found at the end of these meridians. I am going to walk you through an EFT exercise today so you can learn these points. 

When Gary Craig begin using and teaching EFT, it seemed like magic. It worked so well and so quickly it was like snake oil! Over the last 50 years, there have been over 51 peer reviewed papers that report of investigate the clinical outcomes of EFT. It is now considered an evidence-based treatment. 

So then how does it work?

There are three reasons that EFT works according to Church in the EFT Manual:

First, EFT reduces stress. 

Second, EFT diminishes the intensity of emotional trauma, and 

Third, EFT modifies the way the brain processes emotional information.

We all know about stress. When we are stressed our bodies do not function at optimal level. When we reduce stress, all of our systems – circulation, respiration, digestion and every other system works better! Circumstances may not change but when we have made our resources available because we are calm, we improve our functioning abilities. This is why EFT works with such a variety of  aliments and complaints. 

With recent discoveries about brain plasiticity we also know that once we begin to rewire our neural pathways and change how we think. 

If we are working with a traumatic memory, the memory does not go away, but our emotional reaction to that memory shifts and changes. 

Tapping can be used with our emotions, physical ailments and performance. Today in order to teach you the process, I am going to use affirmations. Sometimes affirmations get blocked by our past memories without even knowing it!  There are many resources available for learning EFT. If you are interested, I would recommend Nick Ortner’s site. He is the author of The Tapping Solution. He has some great resources on his website as well as a Podcast and an app for doing EFT.

 Napoleon Hill in his classic book, Think and grow Rich, stated that when we are in a heightened state of awareness, speaking our affirmations becomes even more effective…our body, mind and spirit are primed to take on the affirmations with little or no resistance from our inner voice.

Affirmations when practiced, impact our neuropathways and can shift our perception and belief system.

So today I am going to teach you the Tapping process with the nine points.  We will go through the points several times before we actually do the Tapping.  We will explore and create our own affirmations to use during the tapping Session. 

So let’s go…

Emotional Freedom Technique – Tapping

Now, you can’t see me so I will explain these points as clearly as I can…Let’s locate them first before we start…

Now lets go through the sequence. Take your two fingers and tap on these points. Some people use both hands, I like using just one hand and you can use which ever hand is your dominant hand.

1. Side of the Hand Karate Chop - take two fingers as if you are pointing to something. Take them and tap them against the side or your palm…not on your palm but the narrow side under your little finger…tap and repeat your affirmation three times as you tap. 
2. Top of the Head - TAP
3. Start of Eyebrow - TAP
4. Outer edge of Eye – on the bone - TAP
5. Under the Eye – on the bone under the pupil - TAP
6. Under the Nose - TAP
7. Between lower lip and chin - TAP
8. Collarbone point- Find the notch of your collar bones, move 2cm down, now 2 cm out…this is the tapping point - TAP
9. Arm point – 4 inches below the arm pit – TAP
10. END AGAIN WITH THE KARATE CHOP 

Affirmations

You may have a favourite affirmation already.  If not here are some examples that you could use.

Remember, 

• Begin with ‘I am…”
• Use the present tense.
• Affirm what you want…not what you don’t want!
• Keep it brief.
• Be specific. I am driving my new, navy blue Mercedes C-class Cabriolet.
• Include an action word and end it in -ing.
• Make it about you not others.
• You could also add, ‘…or something (someone) better.”

Some examples from Jack Canfield, Shakti Gawain, Zig Ziglar

• I am constantly aware that my world today is full of abundance and opportunity
• I follow my heart and feel joyful because I am doing what I was born to do.
• I am calmly expanding my comfort zone to include everything I want to be, do and have.
• I am acting in alignment with my true life purpose.
• I am now attuned to my higher purpose and my life is unfolding exactly as it needs to.
• I am intelligent, competent, persistent and creative.
• I am enough.
• I am an open channel to creative energy.
• I accept all aspects of my internal weather and learn from the changing climate.
• I am confident in my ability to___________.
• I listen to my intuition and my inner guide.
• I give myself the care and attention I deserve.

First, Rate your belief level of your affirmation…jot that down or hold it in your mind…0, not at all, 10 unwavering belief

Let’s do some Tapping 

State your affirmation I am going to say mine out loud:

I am calmly expanding my comfort zone to include everything I want to be, do and have.

1. Side of the Hand BEGIN WITH AFFIRMATION
2. Top of the Head ALL OR PART OF AFFIRMATION
3. Start of Eyebrow ALL OR PART OF AFFIRMATION
4. Outer edge of Eye – on the bone A...

As with any journey, there are many ways to get to where we are going. In this journey there are many tools available to guide us on the journey as well as people who will guide and mentor us. 

I am going to talk about the ABCs of a Journey to Inner Wisdom…Awareness, Beliefs and Balance, Curiosity and Creativity, Discernment and decisions, the Enneagram and energy centres, Focus, Flow, and Flourish and Gratitude, Generosity and grace. At this moment it is the ABCDEFGs of a Journey to Inner Wisdom.  I will get the rest of the alphabet with time!

From time to time, I will invite guests to join the conversation and share their journeys and the tools they use and guides who have journeyed with them. And you will hear about my own on-going journey. 

I hope you will join me on this adventure.  

Discernment and Decision Making

Welcome to this episode of a journey to inner wisdom. I started my podcasts with wisdom and transitions and then went into the ABCs of the journey…awareness, beliefs and curiosity/creativity and today I will talk about discernment and decision making…so far I have been able to follow the ABCs with the little diversion into transitions…but then when we are in transition whether emotionally, physically, spiritually, or mentally…it is usually the time we are seeking to tap into our inner wisdom. 

So often we look for answers outside of ourselves and make decisions on what society, family or friends expect of us. Living from other people’s expectations is part of the conditioning that we experience as human beings…it adds a layer to our limiting beliefs. 

When we find ourselves unsettled in our work or relationships, it is often because we are there to satisfy someone else’s expectations. 

A journey to inner wisdom is about tapping into your expectations, your desires and de-conditioning your mind and beliefs.

As we gain clarity about what we truly desire, we begin to make decisions and trust our intuition and instincts. We begin to trust our inner knowing. 

We make a multitude of decisions every day. Some are simple and unconscious, like getting out of bed, brushing our teeth, heading to the gym. Some are more complicated…what to wear… although my pandemic wardrobe has been pretty basic, so my daily decisions aren’t that complicated!!! I recently went out to a small gathering and it was a big deal to make a decision about what to wear!! Seriously, though, then there are those life changing decisions like work, where to live, relationships, kids or not kids, etc. How do we make those decisions? 

First, we need to be awake and aware, we need to be clear about how our beliefs could impact our decision making and finally in the process of making a decision we need to be curious. 

Most of us when making a decision will list the pros and cons of whatever it is that we are deciding upon. This is a good way to clarify what we want and don‘t want. 

I want to explore a tool of discernment that gives us even more information about the decision at hand.

As always, let’s look at the words: decision and discernment …

The Merriam-Webster dictionary:

Decide:

: to make a final choice or judgment about

: to select as a course of action 

: to infer on the basis of evidence  

decide (v.)

late 14c., "to settle a dispute, determine a controversy," from Old French decider, from Latin decidere "to decide, determine," literally "to cut off," from de "off" (see de-) + caedere "to cut" (from PIE root *kae-id- "to strike"). For Latin vowel change, see acquisition. Sense is of resolving difficulties "at a stroke." Meaning "to make up one's mind" is attested from 1830. Related: Decided; deciding.

Decision

: a choice that you make about something after thinking about it : the result of deciding

decision (n.)

mid-15c., "act of deciding," from Old French décision (14c.), from Latin decisionem (nominative decisio) "a decision, settlement, agreement," noun of action from past-participle stem of decidere "to decide, determine," literally "to cut off," from de "off" (see de-) + caedere "to cut" (from PIE root *kae-id- "to strike").

Meaning "final judgment or opinion in a case" is from 1550s. Meaning "quality of being decided in character, ability to make prompt determinations" is from 1781; sense of "a resolution, a fixing of purpose" is by 1886.  Decision-making (adjective) is recorded by 1946.

Discern: 

: to detect with the eyes

: to detect with senses other than vision 

: to come to know or recognize mentally

Discernment

: the quality of being able to grasp and comprehend what is obscure 

: skill in discerning

: an act of perceiving or discerning something

Origins of discern

"perceive or recognize the difference or distinction between (two or more things);" also "distinguish (an object) with the eyes, see distinctly, behold;" also "perceive rationally, understand;" late 14c., from Old French discerner (13c.) "distinguish (between), separate" (by sifting), and directly from Latin discernere "to separate, set apart, divide, distribute; distinguish, perceive," from dis- "off, away" (see dis-) + cernere "distinguish, separate, sift" (from PIE root *krei- "to sieve," thus "discriminate, distinguish"). Related: Discerned; discerning.

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Repeat comes from the prefix Re- meaning ‘go back’, and ‘peat’ from the Latin “petere” which means ‘to seek’. When we repeat something, the purpose is to go back and seek or look for something that we may have missed or not noticed the first time through. When I teach the Awareness Exercise, there is a lot of repetition because as we enter into different levels of awareness by using our senses, our energy centers, our intuition, our memory and imagination, we will discover new and different perspectives. 

Review, another word that education may have muddied for us, needs some attention. WE were told to review your work for the exam or the mid-term. We weren’t always told why it was a good idea to sharpen the neural pathways of learning the material, we just did it because the teacher said or not! 

Again, ‘re-‘ is about going back and view is about seeing. 

Both are beneficial to learning and as we now know when we review, we are reinforcing our neural pathways and anchoring our learning. 

Today, I will use the word repeat because I want you to go back and seek…another word for seek is search…I want you to search for new meanings and new insights to your understanding of awareness and beliefs and perspectives. 

Difference between repeat and review:  Review is to look back and repeat is to about going back to seek…

1520s, "inspect, examine," from view (n.). From 1765 as "to regard in a certain way;" from 1935 as "to watch television." Related: Viewed; viewing.

early 15c., "formal inspection or survey" (of land); mid-15c., "visual perception," from Anglo-French vewe "view," Old French veue "light, brightness; look, appearance; eyesight, vision," noun use of fem. past participle of veoir "to see," from Latin videre "to see" (from PIE root *weid- "to see"). Sense of "manner of regarding something" attested from early 15c. Meaning "sight or prospect of a landscape, etc." is recorded from c. 1600.

Think about meditation and the chanting of a mantra during your meditation. You are repeating the mantra in order to seek something deeper.  

When we learn a new motor skill, we repeat in order to create a body memory so we can perform the task again. Once it is learned our body remembers. 

Today through repetition we are going back and seeking new perspectives on what I have been talking about in the first episodes of a journey to inner wisdom

Here is a great poem by Marion Woodman that is a great description of going back and repeating!

‘Linearity does not come naturally

to me. It kills my imagination.

Nothing happens.

No bell rings

No moment of here and now.

No moment that says yes.

Without these, I am not alive.

 I prefer the pleasure

of the journey through the spiral.

 Relax.

Enjoy the spiral.

If you miss something

on the first round,

don’t worry.

You might pick it up

on the second – or third – or ninth.

It doesn’t matter.

 Relax.

Timing is everything.

If this bell does ring,

it will resonate

through all the rungs of your spiral.

If it doesn’t ring,

it is the wrong spiral –

or the wrong time –

or there is no bell.’

The journey to inner wisdom is the journey to becoming ourselves…

First let’s look back at wisdom: Marion Goodman, was a Jungian analyst, feminist and poet. From her book, “Coming home to myself” she writes…

‘A life truly lived

Constantly burns away

Veils of illusion, 

opening our eyes 

To our uniqueness.

A life truly lived 

Burns away 

what is not longer relevant 

Gradually reveals 

Our essence

Until, at last,

We are strong enough

 to stand in our naked truth’

Coming Home to Myself is really a great way to describe the journey to inner wisdom. We are journeying to our true essence and stripping away the limiting beliefs and conditioned beliefs that we have taken on from family, society, all the influences around us. 

It is often during a transition that we begin searching for a deeper understanding of what is happening to us and around us. A transition is about going to the other side of where we are now. Without awareness of what is happening to us, we may miss opportunities or not even recognize what is happening.  

In order to see how we can deepen our understanding and application of awareness and beliefs I will unfold the topic of curiosity. Remember, we have to be awakened to be aware! As we become meta aware, have a deeper awareness, we are able to begin to notice patterns in our life that will reveal our private belief system. This private belief system has been made up by us so we can get our needs met and survive in our world. We created it during our early childhood, and it is the unconscious operating system that guides our decisions and actions. We will also begin to notice certain beliefs that we have inherited, appropriated, or assimilated from our family, our society, our friends, our community. These conditioned beliefs also long for our attention and full awareness to determine if they are serving us on our journey. 

I invite you to reflect on the following question:

How have you been paying attention to your inner world?

How have you been paying attention to your outer world?

What senses have been prominent in your awareness?

What energy – mind, heart, body - do you experience when you take time to be aware of your day or week?

What patterns have you noticed that surprised you?

Have there been other surprises when you have practiced being more aware of your inner and outer world?

Have you been curious or judgemental about what you have noticed?

As we begin to examine our life patterns and our private belief system, it is helpful to take a stance of Curiosity. 

Let’s take a closer look at the word, curious.

Merriam-Webster Dictionary: 

: having a desire to learn or know more about something or someone

: marked by desire to investigate and learn

mid-14c., "subtle, sophisticated;" late 14c., "eager to know, inquisitive, desirous of seeing" (often in a bad sense), also "wrought with or requi...

I am going to talk about the many facets of the Journey to Inner Wisdom. As with any journey, there are many ways to get to where we are going. In this journey there are many tools available to guide us on the journey as well as people who will guide and mentor us. 

I am going to talk about the ABCs of the Journey to inner Wisdom…Awareness, Beliefs, Curiosity and Creativity, Discernment and direction, the Enneagram and energy, Focus, Flow, and Flourish and Gratitude, generosity and grace.

From time to time, I will invite guest to join the conversation and share their journeys and the tools and guides who journeyed with them. And you will hear about my own on-going journey. 

I hope you will join me on this adventure.  

Episode 4 Past present, present, future present, future?

Living in the present – creating the present from the future rather than the past.

I talked about our private logic last week or limiting beliefs, mistaken logic, subjective perception, etc.  I’m doing two podcast because it is very important to work on our private logic, bring it to consciousness in order to travel the journey to inner wisdom. It is the first step to becoming aware of how we live a past present life.  

I’ve noticed a lot of people are talking about limiting beliefs these days or maybe it’s because I am as well and so I am noticing it more. It is like buying a new red car and suddenly you see red cars everywhere! Our energy follows our thoughts. Which is why it is so important to know where our thoughts are coming from.  Our thoughts give life to our private logic. Or maybe it is because it is so important to pay attention to our private logic and stop living from those beliefs. 

I was thinking in images the other day and I saw a file cabinet with 3 drawers. The top drawer contained all of our consciousness- mental physical, emotional and spiritual Easily accessible, subjective and not hard to find. The middle drawer contains all of the stuff that we could access easily when needed – skills, habits, facts, memories, stories, emotions, etc. Ad then there is the bottom drawer. It has all the parts that we’ve filed away for a variety of reasons – not important, too painful, embarrassing, another lifetime, disappointments, failures, etc. You will also find in this drawer – conditioning files, family expectations, social pressures, religious pressure, media, rules you live by whether they make sense or not, etc. all impacting your private logic. Our private logic resides in this drawer because we are not even conscious that we have a subjective belief system that tints our perception of ourselves, others, relationships, our world, work, money, love, sex, parenting, - epic list!!!!

And it rules our day to day interactions, decisions, and attitude toward ourselves and the world around us. 

As I said last episode, pulling this file from the bottom drawer to the top drawer is not always simple or easy. We deny that we have such a file – we justify the way we move thru life – despite stumbling and wondering – where did that come from!

Let me tell you something about my private logic. When I was in my early 40s, I did some work on uncovering my private logic. An early memory uncovered an interesting belief I had about myself. I was in grade 3 - 8 years old and the teacher gave us homework to write about how the tractor had improved the work of horses. I had no idea what the teacher wanted me to do. I even looked in the encyclopedia that my parents had gotten for us. I wrote one sentence. In school a few days later the teacher read the marks and I got zero and she laughed at it. I was so embarrassed at 8 years old. I must have been beet red and I was so warm. I wanted to cry. I decided then and there that I must be stupid. I recall the teacher used that word. So, I spent a lot of my life trying to prove that I was smart. Once I realized this, I was also able to see that this experience was also a gift as I love to learn and may not have embraced learning so vigorously except that I had this experience. Education was not a value in our family. My dad finished grade 8, my mom finished high school and went to secretarial school and briefly worked as a secretary. That is what she wanted me to do rather than go to university. So our private logic once uncovered can be full of revelations about who we are. 

Best-selling author, Carolyn Myss, talks about being people being under a spell. A spell is a thought form, a perception, an illusion. She talks about each of us living in our own reality. This would be our subjective perception or private logic. We need to realize we are not the centre of the universe! So, ask yourself, what rules have I created in my life…they come from your private logic.

Most rules start with

I must… I must walk 10, 000 steps before I have a treat. 

I need to…  I need to take care of…

I need… I need ___ hours of sleep

I have to be…  I have to be prepared for anything

If I don’t…  If I don’t plan the family gathering no one will.

I demand… I demand respect…

Also, ask yourself what are your rules around money, work, leisure time, parenting, retirement, etc. These rules will reveal your underlying patterns of beliefs that may be holding you back in some area of your life.

I think you get the idea…

Let’s go a bit deeper with these questions if you are ready to recall, release and recreate a new way of being. 

Ask yourself:

What do I believe about myself? 

What kind of person am I?

What do I believe about men, women, relationships, work, money, love, sex, the world, parenting, play, religion, business, education, health, spirituality, etc.? 

Notice the patterns as you begin to answer these questions.   Dr. Joe Dispenza in his book, “Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself”, states, 

“When you think from your past memories, you can only create past experiences. As all of the ‘knowns’ in your life cause your brain to think and feel in familiar ways, thus creating knowable outcomes you continually reaffirm your life as you know it. And since your brain is equal to your environment then each morning, your senses plug you into the same reality and initiate the same stream of consciousness” p 43

Recently I came across the allegory, Plato’s Cave. I think it is a great example of how our perception and private logic keeps us hostage. 

Briefly and redacted…

Some people were in a cave and they thought they were trapped. They were facing the back wall of the cave and there was a fire behind their backs. The saw people moving on the back wall…their shadows…they were frightened and would not take their eyes off the wall for fear of being hurt. Just behind them was the opening of the cave but they would not look and so they could not see that if they changed their perspective they could walk away. 

I think you can see how subjective perception keeps us trapped. For centuries we believed that the earth was the centre of the universe. Galileo was excommunicated when he made it known that the Sun is the centre of our galaxy. And how many more times have we had to change our perspective as Science reveals more truths about the universe, lik...

I hope you had a chance to consider the transitions that you have or are going through in your life and how you are going or have gone through them.  And have you noticed any fractals on your daily journey? I was out walking, looking into the canopy atop the forest and the patterns are amazing. I have parsley growing in my greenhouse and the patterns are wonderful.

I always like to start by looking at the word itself and where it came from.

1828 - Aware – late old English – watchful, vigilant

-Ness -denotes action, quality, or state

1752 – awaredom

Today: Merriam-Webster Dictionary

knowledge and understanding that something is happening or exists

situational awareness is simply knowing what is going on around us and being able to assess how it will impact the near future.  Like driving, or cooking or walking, and seeing a dog!

I know, you are thinking, ‘that is so obvious…. of course I am aware of what is happening!’ “I know that I am listening to this podcast…I know I am also driving or walking or making dinner.’

Think for a moment of a time you were driving or going somewhere on the subway or a train and suddenly you wonder, “how did I get here? Did I go through a red light? Did I miss my stop? We often run on automatic in our busy world. 

Tony DeMello once said:

Most people even though they don’t know it, are asleep. They are born asleep, they live asleep, they marry in their sleep, they breed in their sleep, they die in their sleep without even waking up. They never understand the loveliness, -  beauty of this thing called human existence. 

- George Gurdjieff. 

“Awakening is possible only for those who seek it and want it, for those who are ready to struggle with themselves and work on themselves for a very long time and very persistently in order to attain it.”

Sometimes we have numbed ourselves in order to avoid pain or face a difficult situation. We can do that with substances, work, gaming, or disconnecting from the now.  When we do this, we are not present to the present…it is like we are a wraith going through life and not engaging with life.  

- George Gurdjieff. 
 

“In order to awaken, first of all one must realize that one is in a state of sleep.”

There is the rub!!! We often don’t realize that we are asleep. 

According to Deepak Chopra, awakening happens when you are no longer living in a dream world where you filter everything through your ego and focus on the future and the past. Instead, you have an almost simultaneous awareness of your individual self and the connection between that and everything else. This is beyond situational awareness! Richard Rohr

Our job as conscious humans is to bring the beauty and goodness of everything to full consciousness, to full delight, to full awareness.

Conscious and unconscious are really what I am talking about when I talk about awareness. According to Alfred Adler, “The unconscious is nothing other than that which we have been unable to formulate into clear concepts 

If we are sleeping through our lives, what is it that we must wake up to in order to fully engage in our way of being…in our deeper way of knowing.

In order to do this, we must go beyond just knowing and understanding that something is happening or existing. We need to go beyond situational awareness which can be called the first order of knowing…we notice and maybe do a bit of reflection and conclude that we understand what is going on around us. 

When we go deeper into what more is happening besides what meets the eye or any other sense for that matter, we may begin to notice more than our conscious mind can register. Our perception actually gives what is happening a twist, a tint, a bit of an interpretation that others do not have. I am often not even aware of the twist or bias of my own perception. It falls in the realm of I don’t know what I don’t know and resides in my unconscious. 

Let’s explore what deeper awareness may look like. In education and psychology, we talk about cognition and metacognition. Cognition is comprised of our mental processes, our conscious mental activities – thinking understanding learning, and remembering. Metacognition is the awareness of one’s own learning or thinking processes.

What if we could enter into the realm of meta-awareness and observe how we pay attention and react to the world around us? What if by entering into the deeper level or second-order awareness, we become aware that our unique perspective on the world is our own creation and we can change that perception at any time. We can do this because we created it in the first place.  Okay, I am already talking about beliefs and perception and am jumping to the next episode!!! 

When I shift from situational awareness and enter into the field of meta-awareness, as DeMello states  I wake up and I begin to notice what is going on at a deeper level, and then I am able to shift my perspective. I now have more choices. I begin to notice patterns. As de Mello states, “that is what wisdom means: to be changed without the slightest effort of your part, to be transformed believe it or not, merely by waking to reality that is not words, that lies beyond the reach of words.”

How do we shift to meta-awareness?  There are many roads to meta-awareness – yoga, meditation, guided retreats, therapy, energy work, coaching, The awareness exercise, to name a few. I have used all of these and perhaps the simplest way to develop your meta-awareness is by using the Awareness Exercise.  I was first introduced to a form of the Awareness exercise on a 7-day silent retreat 40 years ago. I have used it myself and with retreatants as well as taught it at workshops over the decades. It will take you into meta-awareness when used consistently. 

So to reiterate…Meta-awareness involves waking up to what’s going on with us – with our thoughts, our feelings, our body sensations, and impulses – in each moment. We are simultaneously ‘in’ our experience (feeling and sensing what’s going on) and at the same time, we’re able to notice some of the ways it’s unfolding for us.

When we have that awareness, then we can choose what we do next. When we don’t have it, we’re stuck in the rut of our familiar, habitual reactions.

Meta awareness: How do we pay attention?

Whatever tools of awareness that we use, what is important is that we are paying attention with all of our senses, our head, heart and gut, our imagination and memory, and our intuition. 

Our senses will give us a cursory inventory of what is happening around us. What we see, hear, taste touch, and smell. Our brain is directly involved with interpreting what our senses sense. 

Our energy centers, our heart, our head, and our gut, will take us to deeper levels. 

Our heart will reveal our emotional response, both positive and negative,  to what is/has happened. One of the big obstacles is that we often don’t pay attention to our negative emotions and sometimes overemphasize our positive emotions. When we are in meta-awareness we can ...

I am going to talk about the many facets of the Journey to Inner Wisdom. As with any journey, there are many ways to get to where we are going. In this journey, there are many tools available to guide us on the journey as well as people who will guide and mentor us. 

I am going to talk about the ABCs of the Journey to inner Wisdom…Awareness, Beliefs, Curiosity NS XRATIVITY, Discernment and direction, the Enneagram AND ENERGY, Focus, Flow, and Flourish and  Gratitude, generosity, and grace.

From time to time, I will invite guests to join the conversation and share their journeys and the tools and guides who journeyed with them. And you will hear about my own ongoing journey. 

I hope you will join me on this adventure.  

Episode 3

Awareness and Beliefs and perceptions 

Welcome to episode 3 of a journey to inner wisdom. Thanks for listening... 

In the last episode, I talked about awareness. Today I will talk about our beliefs and perceptions and at the same time, awareness will be underlying the conversation sometimes quietly and sometimes in a noisy kind of way. We will begin to see the connectedness that exists between everything!

Let’s start with the words themselves:

Belief - something that is accepted, considered to be true, or held as an opinion: something believed

Merriam-webster dictionary

Old English - confidence reposed in a person or thing late 12 century

Belief meant "trust in God," while faith meant "loyalty to a person based on promise or duty" (a sense preserved in keep one's faith, in good (or bad) faith, and in the common usage of faithful, faithless, which contain no notion of divinity). But faith, as cognate of Latin fides, took on the religious sense beginning in 14c. translations and belief had by 16c. become limited to "mental acceptance of something as true," from the religious use in the sense of "things held to be true as a matter of religious doctrine."

Perception - the way you think about or understand someone or something

Perceive  c. 1300, perceiven, "become aware of, gain knowledge of," especially "to come to know by direct experience,

The meaning "intuitive or direct recognition of some innate quality" is from 1827.

Per – by means of Cep (kap) – grasp

Percept - an impression of an object obtained by use of the senses 1864 first used

Eckart Tolle

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but thought about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking. Separate them from the situation, which is always neutral. It is as it is.

My perceptions create my belief system. I will call my belief system several different things today… private logic, unconscious beliefs, mistaken logic.  My perception of what is happening in the world around me is a continuation of my imagination and my memories as well as the many ways that I am aware of my world. From this combination, I have created a belief system that tints everything I experience in my world. My perception leads me to certain conclusions about myself, the world, people relationships, work, love, sex, and money…everything. It is like wearing rose-colored glasses, everything is tinted. The rose color is created by our own unique belief system which can keep us trapped and unable to move forward. 

Here is an explanation of private logic from Adlerian theory. “Private logic is another one of Adler's major constructs.  Private logic provides a life pattern that begins in childhood and provides a compass by which to live.  Because we are part of the larger social system and must learn to interact with that system, we develop our own set of rules to help us overcome our feelings of inferiority and achieve our goals.  Private logic is unique to each person and sometimes is not logical.  The goal in Adlerian therapy is to understand a person's private logic to help the person better understand where his beliefs get in the way of daily function, to lessen the faulty thinking of private logic, and to help people change its framework to see things in a more healthy way.  Private logic is unique and feelings of superiority or fear of inferiority are meaningful only to the individual.”

 (Seligman & Reichenberg, 2014).

I create my reality from my perception. That perception is a culmination of my early memories, my family of origin, the conclusions I came to as a child, and the messages I heard every day in my family. And the evidence I have gathered to support this perception that I hold as my truth.  I have also gathered a tribe that supports my perspective.  We are usually not aware of what our private belief system is. We created it as children and it is like the operating system on a computer…it is there but we don’t see it, we just use it. 

How did we create this belief system? Well, as children we are pretty smart, we observe and inspect our little world and we figure out how to get our basic needs met, get attention, get quiet time…whatever it is we need. If you have been around small kids, you can figure out what they are up to most of the time. And in the process, we watch and observe our little world. We pick up the beliefs of our caretakers…parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles, nanny, daycare workers…those we spend the most time with. Then from this unconscious belief system we attempt to get our needs met. Here is the rub…we keep this belief system into adulthood…and the belief system was formed by a child with limited experience in a limited world! So, for many people, their private logic works. When it doesn’t it is like finding yourself in Paris but you have a map of London.  Where am I? 

Let me tell you about my life and an example of one aspect of my private logic that I have unearthed over the years. I grew up as the oldest of 5 children on a farm. My dad was first generation Ukrainian-Russian and there was a general suspicion of other people in our family, which came from my babka as my dad was a kind, happy and friendly guy. My grandmother couldn’t read or write English so she was naturally wary because she could not understand all that was happening. She spoke some English but was certainly not fluent. The distrust was passed on. As a child, this atmosphere was integrated into my belief system. We shared a house with my babka until I was 8. I spent a lot of time with her. I was a favorite and I knew I was spoiled when I was with her. 

As a  young adult, I remember becoming aware that I found cashiers and salesclerks a bit cranky… (I had part-time jobs as both when I was in school and I was not cranky!). One day I became aware – actually after doing some pretty intense therapy and self-development work, that if I changed my perspective perhaps the salesclerks and cashiers would be different, and I might have a different experience when shopping. So, I experimented and over time, I did realize it was all about how I was showing up at the store and how I was at the checkout! Suddenly, I realized that an old belief had tinted the way I saw the world. And I get it, sometimes people have a bad day…I will give them that. 

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Transition - a change from one state or condition to another Webster-Merriman Dictionary

The prefix Trans comes from the Latin meaning:  across, beyond, through, on the other side of, to go beyond.

I want you to think about your own transitions and the language that you use when describing those transitions…

I have been through many transitions in my life as you have…some I’ve handled gracefully and some with less grace and other transitions seemed to handle me. 

Let’s begin by looking at the different types of transitions that make up our lives. 

There are natural transitions like the seasons, daily transition of day to night, light to dark, waking to sleeping.

Birth and death are also natural transitions for all life on this planet and these transitions will vary but are inevitable. 

Then there are the social transitions which vary according to culture and expectations.  Things like birthdays, graduations, weddings, engagements, milestones in business and work, anniversaries…we are always marking transitions…sometimes with a grand celebration and sometimes with a note in our calendars.

We also go through relationship transitions, business/work/jobs, economic transitions. 

Our lives are full of beginnings, middles and ends…some are easy, some we take for granted and some we have to work our way through to the other side. 

Some catch us by surprise, unexpectantly changing the course of our lives. Some are welcomed, some are not welcomed and some we may just want to ignore. 

Some will occasionally blindside us and leave us in shock…

I think you get the idea…we are always either beginning, in the middle of or coming out of a transition…

Let me tell you about some of my transition – first, you need to know that I love to mark transitions, a party or celebration…sometimes taken to the absurd!  A celebration can raise our awareness that life is transforming…like graduation from university or college…life is not longer ruled by assignments and exams rather it is transitioning to application of the accomplished studies. 

Being aware of transitions can lead to a deeper knowing about what is actually happening in our lives and may give us a bigger perspective on how we are making the transition. 

Let me tell you some of my transition stories…

All transitions, as I said have a beginning, a middle and an end. 

The beginnings of any transition are generally recognizable. We are entering into something new…

The endings are generally recognizable as well…

In both cases depending on the transition we will experience a variety of emotions and thoughts. Transitions also impact our health and wellbeing.

Okay, some stories…

My husband and I spend time working in Africa. At the end of 6 years we were returning to Canada. I was sad about the transition as we had made many friends while there. Our two children were born there. WE had made wonderful memories and had had visits from family members over the years. WE had returned to Canada several times over the 6 years so felt connected there as well. As we were saying our goodbyes, I would say…something like…we will meet again…this isn’t really goodbye! I was really avoiding saying goodbye. One of the teachers that had worked with us took me aside one day and gave me an article about grieving and saying goodbye…this new awareness that I was bargaining and not facing the endings of this era in my life woke me up and I begian to say goodbye for good to everyone. I realized then that I was closing this time or chapter of my life and if and when I meet some of theses people again it would be a gift. I cried my way through the next two weeks but when I got on the plane and left, I was ready for my next adventure. I had made a graceful transition in the end!

This learning has helped me be aware of the many times I have left people, places, jobs behind…I always say goodbye and close the chapter. 

I have had many visits with the people from that chapter of my life and each time it is so exciting to connect without any baggage.

My family has often given me a hard time because I like to create celebrations to mark transitions and here is a story about a bizarre celebration! Our dear friend Lubinda came from Africa to live with us for a year. After a few months she was not feeling well and found out that she had a serious amoeba in her gut. It was terrifying and we were all worried, especially Lubinda. This was a transition in her health situation that was not great but we all needed to work together to get her healthy. Well we had an amoeba party and we posted amoebas on her bedroom door. We celebrated that the doctors had been able to discover what was ailing her…the celebration marked our support of her wellness journey and she picked herself up and was more hopeful about the journey to wellness…

A more traditional and not so traditional celebration was for my mom’s 90th birthday. She did not want a party, but how many people get to be 90! So rather than put all the focus on her, we had a zero celebration. There were 8 people celebrating a ‘Zero” birthday as well as two new babies coming before the end of the year! Do We had a Zero party to mark the transition from one decade to the next for all of these people? It was a rip-roaring success and my mother was thrilled, even thought we did manage to make it mostly about her. 

After 14 years of marriage, I left our relationship. This was probably one of the most painful transitions I have made. As part of the transition out of the marriage, we went to marriage therapy to learn why our relationship ended and how not to make the same mistake again. I wanted to be fully aware of my part in the breakup and I wanted to be fully aware as I entered another relationship. The transition was interesting as we ended up back together and to mark the transition back into the relationship, we had an intimate celebration with a few people who had supported us during this painful and then joyful time. 

Over the last, almost two years, I think transitions have been particularly difficult because In some ways we have been forced into being in transition in so many ways. Our lives as we have known them shifted and changed many times. Our work may have changed, our finances, our contact with friends and family, our wellbeing has shifted and all of these things continue to be in transition…there was a beginning and we are all hoping there will soon be an ending and a transition to something more familiar with a bit more certainty. Every aspect of our lives ws turned on end…even getting groceries and we all remember the toilet paper shortage!

During this time, the chaos, I don’t think that is too strong a work…Chaos – a state of disorder and confusion…I think we can all agree that this is what it seemed like many times over the last 22 mo...

I hope you will join me on this adventure.  Enjoy the Introductory Podcast: Wisdom and my Journey.