Remembering Our Humanness (Energy Embodiment)

In this episode, I share a quick but helpful tool for remembering who you are and what you're capable of in this life. I talk a little bit about why it's important to remember our 'humanness' especially when it comes to comparing ourselves to people we admire and how to tap into and embody the energy of those people.

Transcript

Hello and welcome to another episode of the Wild Free Well podcast. I am here with you a day late but not a dollar short just because there have been some renovations going on in my house and because of the renovations there have there has been a lot of banging and so finding the time to record the podcast has been a little bit challenging and so I'm taking advantage of a rare quiet moment to come at with you with a new episode and today the topic that I want to talk about is remembering our humanness and I don't want to get this confused with humanity because I feel like humanity is almost a synonym for kindness and I think that's really valid and really important but it's not the purpose of why I want to talk to you today so the idea of remembering our humanness in this sense I'm talking about the way that we perceive ourselves and the way that we perceive other people so what I mean by that is we are all just people right and I say this all the time to clients I say it on the podcast and I say it also to myself but at the end of the day like we're just little humans right and I mean that in multiple senses I mean like we're just human we're just doing the best that we can and then also the idea of like you know we have these kind of like little versions of ourselves like our inner child I hate that term though inner child I mean it's valid I just I don't know why I really don't resonate with like the way it sounds but we have these like little versions of ourselves that are inside of us and we're always just trying to do the best that we can to show up and take care of that little version of ourselves I think and the reason why I wanted to talk about this is because I feel like a little bit in like the age of influencers and the fact that there's so many people who are experts on things and the way that we're being kind of shown things in in the media in general I don't think that we could keep this topic too tightly tied to social media I just feel like in general whether it's like we're watching the news or we're watching like an analyst explain something or whatever right everyone has an opinion everyone is sharing their own version of the truth and that is really beautiful and if we look at the positive side of social media which I know I really don't do a lot on the podcast but if we look at the positive side of social media it really has given people a platform for better for worse to share their truth with the world right everyone has an opportunity now to share their truth with a wider audience it's no different than this podcast that's what I'm doing here when I speak to you every week right so what I want this podcast to be about is just to remind us and to reconnect us with this idea that we are all just little humans and so that goes for the people that we dislike the people whose opinions are different than us than ours but I think it's even more important to remember when we are looking at somebody that we admire when we're looking at somebody who has something that we want or has a life that we want maybe every person that we admire is literally just another human just another human being trying to do their best in the world right but there is no hierarchy and I feel like we get a little bit tripped up with that especially in society like society loves hierarchy hierarchies in general I mean even if you think about the structure of the corporate world right we have like this kind of this idea of like the corporate ladder for example like we love labels we love structure we love hierarchies we love understanding where we fit into the world but when we're looking at someone that we admire it's just so important to remember that they're just another human being they're just exactly the same as us they have skills maybe that are similar to ours maybe different than ours but it's not that their skills are better they're just different right because each of us has our own magic and our own energy to bring to the world so if we take this seriously this idea that I'm saying today that I'm sharing today there really is no need for hierarchies and no need for pedestals because whatever someone else has or does or has achieved or however they behave or act or are like who they are as a person whatever it is that you admire about that person you're able to bring forth within yourself we're not able of oh sorry we're not able to see things in other people if we don't have them within us because they just wouldn't really be on our radar if that makes sense so like there's so many attributes in the world there's so many positive characteristics so many positive ways of being and moving in the world why do we admire these specific attributes in the people that we admire why not all of the attributes all of them all of the positive ones that are that are available to us why are we not drawn to every single one of them why are we drawn to very specific ones right and it's because to a certain extent if we want to talk about the law of attraction it's this idea of like like attracts like right so we are able to see in other people a trait that we have within ourselves now that trait may be well developed it may be dormant it may be whatever but you have it within you so there's never any reason to view people as like farther ahead or you know more capable or more anything than you really like it's and certainly not better than you and certainly not more worthy than you and like listen there is no one who understands better than me this sense because I tend to put myself like below other people like I always feel like other people know better do better you know they're they're getting it in a way that I don't they have it figured out and I don't like I very much tend to like occupy that space and then I have to kind of work my way out of it through like the mindset work and stuff like that but anything that you're seeing or admiring in somebody else is something that you have within you there is really nothing more special or unique about someone else than you, You are equal now again equal in the sense that you are you're both worthy you're both talented but maybe it's in different ways or maybe they have cultivated the attributes that you see that you want to you know replicate or incorporate in your life maybe they are working towards them in a different way maybe they've activated them and you haven't gotten there yet and that's okay but all of those things are within you right you have access to them if you want to and that's why I think it's so important to like take a step back because I think that we are taught and you see this a lot in like you know celebrity culture and stuff like that it's a little bit less so with like we talked about this on the last episode of the podcast but or one of the last ones like it's different than it used to be celebrity culture used to be very much like an us versus them but social media in particular has really leveled the playing field because now everyone is speaking for themselves to a certain degree I'm sure that celebrities are still using like PR people and whatever and that's fine but in general we all have this opportunity to kind of express ourselves however we want to and to put the best version of ourselves forward and in some cases also sell a version of ourselves that we want the public to see right but there is nothing about that scenario that is not available to you in whatever way that you want it to be so if you see somebody that you admire who you think is really kind or you see somebody who's like really good at what they do you know really good at their job or really good at running a business or you see somebody who's really fit right really healthy who someone who really takes care of themselves or who really shows up for themselves there is nothing about that reality that is separate to you there is no reason to view that person as other right we want to get back to this like sense of shared humanness we are all on this journey together we are all learning we are all doing the best that we can at any given moment and so if we can remember that the people that we are we admire are just other humans who were faced with a series of obstacles and who made a series of choices that got them to where they are it takes this kind of like specialness away from them now that's not to say that they're not special they are but they are special in the exact same way that you are they are special in their own unique way I genuinely believe though I forget it sometimes when I'm talking about myself or talking to myself to be honest with you but I do I genuinely believe that we all have our own unique brand of magic we each have something special to offer the world and it doesn't need in any way shape or form to look like what someone else offers to the world and that is where I think we start getting tripped up yes because especially in influencer culture especially in the age of social media or the digital age where we have such unprecedented access to people's lives or at least the lives that they're showing us we often get like tripped up by seeing these people doing these things I have a client who was talking to me the other day about how like she really feels like she needs to take a break from social media because she's finding it a little bit like detrimental to her well-being because she's seeing all these other people in her field doing what she is doing but they're they seem really happy and they seem like they're like moving forward and they're like really enjoying the process and like she's a little bit in a position right now where she's not in love with the process necessarily of what she's doing and she's looking to kind of figure that out and so constantly being bombarded with that image is not really making her feel well and I think that's totally fair and we need to have a moment and grant space and grace to the version of ourselves that is triggered okay so when you are triggered that is so fine it's so okay it is showing you what you really want okay or what you don't want in any case the trigger is providing you with clarity because if you're looking at something and saying I'm doing something similar and I don't feel like that why or do I actually want this right go back to the episode from a couple of weeks ago about refining your desires right but do I really want this or maybe you're looking at something and you're saying like I know I want exactly what that person has but you feel like you can't get at it or get to it or achieve it or whatever it might be the reality is is that it's just another human you are looking at another human now I really think it is important to say that whenever we admire somebody right we need to remember that they're only showing us a percentage and a very small very curated percentage of their lives so we're only seeing what we what they want us to see right no one is actually 100% an open book because humans in general I think are not a fan of airing their dirty laundry in general I know that I despite having you know like a social media account despite having a podcast I actually think I'm a relatively private person and I really only share about things once they've kind of like settled a little bit because I grant myself the space and grace again to process what I'm going through before I share it with somebody because I think that that's for me at least the healthiest way to do it but we're never getting the whole story from anybody so that's what this whole episode is about is this call to like remind yourself that the other person that you admire not only are they just another human being doing the best that they can but they are reflecting things back to you either that you want that you are capable of having or that you have within you that are your that is just you know waiting to be embodied the energy that they have the traits that they have the attributes that they have are already a part of you and it's just about taking those baby steps to get closer to that 1% better 1% showing up and doing a little bit every day towards whatever it is that that what those people admire embody you too want to embody but it's all available to you and that's kind of to getting off topic but getting to the deeper layer of what we're talking about here anything is possible and I think that that's something that we forget because while we're watching other people live their lives and I think we're all guilty of this and I think we do it a little bit more than is necessarily healthy for us but in watching other people do what we want or have what we want or whatever it might be for you we sometimes feel like well you know like I'm never going to be able to do that or like that's great for them but you know that can't be true for me because of my background because of my culture because of my ethnicity because of my race because of the rate like problems that I deal with in society because of economics because I don't have money because I don't have this because I'm not beautiful because I'm not worthy like whatever story it is that you're telling yourself remember two things one it is just a story and you have the tools just by listening to this podcast to go through and unravel those sorry words are coming to me a little bit slowly today you have the power and the tools available to you to unravel those stories and tell yourself a new story if you choose to number one and number two that you wouldn't be able to even see those things if they weren't already a part of you and you are just one step away from embodying them just one step away so I'm gonna leave this here I hope this episode served you it's quick just nice and easy but yeah if you have any questions for me you know where to reach me and if you want to suggest a topic for another podcast episode I would love that that would mean so much to me actually so please feel free to like leave a comment or reach out to me and let me know and yeah if you liked this episode you know the usual like rate subscribe comment all that good stuff share if you feel called to which would mean also the world to me and otherwise I will see you next week on another episode of the podcast ciao