When I was sixteen,
It was really,
Really clear to me that as an adult,
I wanted to be a woman of the world who lived her life through her heart.
It was just very simple to me.
I was going to be that.
And then,
You know,
Adulthood hit,
And the whole earning a living,
And I forgot,
And then I hit rocks,
And I remembered again.
Yeah,
The thing is,
You know,
If we don't follow our hearts,
We get chased.
What we don't live chases us.
You know,
Carl Jung said that the biggest difficulty for kids in their development,
In their lives,
Would be the unlived life of the parents.
So to the extent that the parents weren't true to themselves,
That emotional material got loaded up on the kids,
All that denial and fear,
Because it is denial and fear that stop us from just being ourselves.
So there's a high cost in this epidemic of anxiety and,
You know,
These symptoms that we've got—anxiety,
Not being able to sleep,
You know,
Pains in the body—they're actually,
You know,
The classic symptoms of grief.
So,
I mean,
It's staring us in the face.
We've all got broken hearts.
We've got broken hearts.
We're so much in our heads,
And we're so deluded,
And our hearts are breaking.
And you know,
You guys,
We have wars.
We have Mother Nature screaming.
We have all these difficulties.
It's like,
Why aren't we dealing?
You know,
Why do we keep running?
Individually,
All we have to do,
Really,
If a whole bunch of individuals just in their individual lives went,
Okay,
I'm going to stop,
And I'm going to wake up to what my heart's asking me,
I'm going to listen.
You know,
We might be at the 11th hour for the human race,
But maybe there's time for enough of us to turn and listen.
Really,
It's the power.
When I turned and listened in my middle 30s,
When I got this call,
Finally,
When I actually—I mean,
I had the call all along.
I just turned and started listening and following,
And the guidance came clear.
I mean,
On some levels,
I felt I didn't know what I was doing,
But looking back,
My whole life has been guided.
And anybody who wakes up says that,
They may feel confused in the middle of it,
Sometimes get the blues,
But if they decide to wake up and follow their hearts and listen to their true nature,
The guidance comes,
And it really becomes clear in retrospect.
And,
You know,
Given half a chance,
Our souls will take very good care of us.
If we place ourselves in their care,
And turn and listen to our hearts,
We get saved in very,
Very deep ways that are very difficult to articulate.
It would take—you know,
I'd have to speak for three hours to explain this,
But you know,
If we're functioning in our egos,
We're not listening to our guidance,
Then,
You know,
We will certainly encounter difficulties because the soul wants us to wake up,
And the soul will let us flounder because it's wanting to wake us up.
It's just like letting a child touch a hot element.
If the child keeps putting their hand on the stove,
You know,
You keep saying,
Don't,
Don't,
Then maybe the parent lets the child,
Like,
Get a small burn to get the point.
It's the same with our souls,
You know,
Our souls sometimes will let us get hurt because it's what wakes us up.
But I'll tell you what,
If you're following your soul energy,
You get a lot of protection and a lot of guidance,
And it's by experiencing it that you come into trust.
I mean,
I could speak till the cows come home,
And unless you have that trust,
It won't change your mind.
But if you try it,
If you do start to take steps into your heart,
You'll see what I'm talking about.
Okay,
Be gentle with yourselves,
Don't rush it,
Take your time,
You know,
We're not to be fixed,
Yeah,
And just have compassion for yourself and move forward.
Okay,
Bless your hearts.