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Karen Kenney: Hey you guys. Welcome to the
Karen Kenney show. I'm super duper happy to
be here with you today, and I want to talk
about something that was initially inspired

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by a quote. Well, it's been inspired by
several different things as as usual, per
usual, with me, but I was thinking about the
famous quote. It's a story about Gandhi, and

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apparently, during one of the times when
Gandhi had taken a vow of silence, he was on
a train, and as a train was pulling out of
the station, a bunch of like reporters and

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different people were asking him, you know,
which I thought was, which, I think is kind
of funny, since he had taken about silence,
and they were asking him to talk, and

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they're like, Gandhi, you know, do you have
anything to say to the people? And he wrote
down, he wrote down on a piece of paper, on
something, and he held it up to the window,

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supposedly, this is, you know, this is the
story. And and on it, it said, My life is my
message. And I always thought that was such
a powerful thing, and I think I even did, I

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don't know. I mean, I'm like, 293 episodes
in, I don't remember, like, everything I've
talked about, but I think I did a podcast,
even one time that was called Your life is

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your message, which is really him saying
that, you know, it's not so much. It doesn't
matter so much about like, what I'm saying.
It's about who I've been, being like my life

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has been my message. Like I'm trying to be
and live my values and what really matters
to me. And what my message is is I'm trying
to, like, live this thing, which I think is

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really great. Okay, today's episode is
called, your life is a reflection. And I
want to talk about this idea that our life
is a reflection. And I want what I mean by

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this is our current situations are often and
usually a result of our past choices. It's a
result of like the current state of our
life, including like our experiences, our

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relationships, the state of our
relationships, the the choices, all those
things directly reflect the person or people
that we have kind of like developed into

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over time, the the people that we have
become, okay, so the current kind of state
of where we're at is showcasing kind of this
like cumulative effect, this cumulative like

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impact of our past, thinking, our decisions,
our actions, our behaviors, our experiences.
Now it's wicked important for me to say this
caveat, though, because one of the things

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that I think happens in, again, personal
development, work or change work or mindset
work or spiritual work, is we say these kind
of like, um, one liners, Right? These quirky

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little like headlines like these, attention
grabbing heads. Oh, your life is a
reflection. And we like to, like, simplify
things, because here in a podcast, right? We

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often don't have, I mean, sometimes we do.
I've done episodes that were, like, an hour,
two hours long when I had a guest, et
cetera, but we cannot cover the truth of

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everybody's experiences. There's always
going to be exceptions, there's always going
to be nuances, there's always going to be
caveats to things, right? So it's really

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easy for me to just say, like, Oh, your life
is a reflection of who you've been. So
here's the path that's important that I want
you to hear up front, your life is also and

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where you're at right now is also a
reflection of not just who I have been right
or who you have been. It's also a reflection
how in your earliest years, how other people

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have been. It's also a reflection of systems
of oppression that exist in this world,
whether people want to deny it or not,
right, the fact that some of us have had

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different starting points. You know, I often
think about, I just watched on online, on
Netflix, the show sprint, and it's about
these incredible athletes, like the fastest

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track runners, like in the world, and their
journey of of where they were, how they got
to the Olympics and stuff like that. And I'm
always fascinated by people who are

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brilliant at what they do. And, you know,
there's certain races like, not when, like,
not at like that. The 100, you know, the 100
meter one, you. They all start at the same

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line, the same starting blocks. But in other
races, because of the way a track is
designed, some people start it looks like in
different positions. And that's how it kind

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of is in life. Is that people like at the
starting line, like the real starting line,
right? There are other people who are born
with a shit ton of privilege, and they're

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way ahead of the pack, and then there are
people who are at a totally different
starting line. So I just wanted to say this
that I recognize that, because a lot of

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times it can feel like when we say to
people, you know, you're responsible for
this, and you've got to take control of
that, and you're going to yes, and yes, your

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life is a reflection of who you have been,
and right? There's a lot of other stuff that
kind of goes with it. But the reason why I
want to talk about your life as a reflection

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is because the reality of it is, is that we
often cannot do anything about how other
people have chosen to behave, what other
people are doing, what other people, you

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know, other systems are doing what we do
have control over, right? For the most part.
I mean, of course, there are also, again,
this caveats to everything, like some people

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who might have undiagnosed or uncontrolled,
like on helped at this moment, like mental
illness, things like that, okay, but for the
most part, for the most part, what I would

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say is that our life is a reflection of who
we have been, how we have been, right? And
this is like our thinking, our beliefs, our
stories, our identities, the choices we've

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made. It's the cumulative effect of our
past, thinking, our decisions, our actions
and stuff like that. And it's, it's often
like, when we think about comma, you know,

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some people think about comma like, you
know, comma is like, Oh, you're going to,
you know, you did something bad karma is
going to get you as if it's like, almost

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personal. And I kind of think of comma as
being more universal. I think of comma more
like science, right, which is like it's just
simply cause and effect. That's how I think

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of comma. And so much of the results that
we're experiencing the effect right now,
when I think about this concept that your
life is a reflection of who you have been,

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it's about we are currently experiencing the
effects of our causal choices and actions
and thoughts and whatever it's like, it
catches up to us. It's not like things

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automatically, like, you know, there is
like, instant comma, like, you touch a hot
stove, you get burned right? Like, that's
like, oh, cause I touched effect I got

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burned right? Sometimes it's immediate.
Sometimes it's not always so immediate.
Sometimes the universe just kind of takes
its time and things catch up gradually, I

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always say gradually But inevitably, we will
awaken to the truth of ourselves, right?
Gradually But inevitably, hopefully, we move
from a thought system of fear to love, but

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there are some things that are pretty
immediate, and so karma is this, this cause
and effect. So we we often, though, and this
is why I want to talk about it. Sometimes it

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is immediate, right? And this is how we
think. Sometimes we often attribute the
experience that we're having right now to
what we think we're doing right now, right?

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But it's like yes and yes, it is true. Okay,
to some extent, things are still being
influenced by what we are doing currently.
But even more so, right? It's also who we

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are being right now. Okay, so to some
extent, what we're experiencing right now is
a result of exactly what we're doing and who
we're being right now. However, however,

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there's a but here, but okay. Outcomes and
results really are the accumulation of that,
which has also happened over time. And I can
give you a couple of examples of this,

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right? So when you think about like

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trying to build muscle, let's say, okay, it
doesn't happen immediately. But if you're
consistent and you continue to do that,
right, going to the gym, whether you count

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your macros or you're just mindful of what
you put in your body, getting enough rest.
You're drinking good water, like all this
stuff, drinking water, like, taking good

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care of yourself, all these things, right?
When you do this, the results over time are
a reflection of the choices you've been
making and who you've been being like, I've

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been being right. Like, maybe this is you.
I've been being somebody who gets up and
gets their ass to the gym, or goes for a
run, or I watch, you know, I'm mindful of

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what I eat, etc, etc, etc, right? Maybe
you're somebody who has a DSP, a daily
spiritual practice, and you've been doing it
over the years. So your spiritual. Muscles

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have grown, and your ability now to move
through the world, maybe with more joy or
more happiness or more peace or more
patience or compassion and kindness and

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empathy and standing your sacred ground, and
the ability to speak up for injustices and
excuse your voice, et cetera, et cetera.
Whatever it is is a result. It is an effect

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of the causal action of you getting up every
day and doing your DSP. So for I what I want
you to look at is that the the results that
we are getting, the reflection that we are

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getting in our life, is is based on who we
have been being in, the choices that we've
been making. And this also applies to habits
as well, right? Our habits are an

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accumulation of like, who and how we've been
and what we've been thinking about and the
decisions we've made, right? It's, it's
like, your habits don't just like happen

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overnight. They are done through repetition.
So eventually, our habits, our addictions,
our patterns, our things, are a reflection,
right, of who we've been, and the

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accumulation of who we've been basically
equals our life, right? Like, like, who this
is, what your life is, is how you're
interacting in the world, right, the choices

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that you're making, the relationships that
you're having, who you're spending time
with, where you're working, like all these
things, what you're creating. This is your

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life, and it's a reflection of, again, I now
I'm starting to sound repetitive, but it's
an accumulation. It's the effects of our
causal ways of being in the world. And this

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is important, because it can be really easy
to just give up on ourselves, and to say,
this is how I've always been. This is just
the way it is right, and I just don't

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believe that. You know, in 12 step programs,
you know, I was in back in the day, I had
gone to to Al Anon, and I learned a lot of
things. I've said this before. I learned a

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lot of things we you think you're going to
go into Al Anon to learn a lot of things
about alcoholics, right, the people in your
life that you're in relationship with, you

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know? But really, when you go to Al Anon,
you end up really learning about it, a lot
about yourself. So I've been around, I've
been around right the AAC, in an Al Anon,

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and as they say in AA, there's a saying that
they say, like, you can't build a better
past. And that means, like you, you know,
you can't go back and change things. What's

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happened has happened like you can't go back
and fit because healing, as we say in A
Course in Miracles, healing doesn't happen
in the past. Healing happens in the present

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moment. Healing happens now. You know, we
can certainly, like, go back talk about some
things like, you know, try to reason and
figure out, like, oh, you know what

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happened? Why did that happen? All those
things we love to contemplate. But that's
not where the healing is going to happen.
The healing is going to happen in the

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present moment, in the presence of love.
That's where healing is going to happen.
Okay, so in AA, they say you can't go back
and, you know, build a better pass. Meaning,

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what I'm saying is, if our life is the
result is a reflection of who we've been,
maybe some of what we're getting right now
we don't love and we can't go back and

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change that. But the fantastic news is, the
fantastic news is, and this is also
something that they say in 12 step programs,
you can start your day over again right now.

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You can start your day over again at any
time, right? And so I'm really into, like, I
like preventative action, right? A lot of
the work that I'm, that I do is based on

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this premise of like, well, now, what like?
I'm kind of like the What now, lady, I'm
like, now, what like, now, what are we going
to do? Right? Because we can go back and try

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to dig up all that stuff, and there is times
when that's totally appropriate, right? To
understand how to know where you're going is
knowing where you're coming from, right? We

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go back and we look at it, but that's not
where the change and the healing is going to
happen, right? So I'm more into preventative
action, rather than having to do, oh, Jesus,

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clean up an aisle seven again, right? Clean
up an aisle three pickles off the shelf
again. You know, it's like, no, why don't
we, right, do some causal action so that we

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can get different results, so we can have a
different reflection, so that we can restart
our day right now, so that what we're
experiencing as we're coming into the new

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year right now. Again, I always say you
might be listening to this in in October or
March or whatever, right? But I'm recording
this as we're entering like a new year, so

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you can restart your day at any time. If
you're looking forward and you're like, I
want to feel differently. I want to dwell in
the realm of the possibility of feeling

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differently, being different, feeling
different, feeling better, right? Having
more joy, having more happiness. Having more
tools to navigate this life, which is like,

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right? The work that I do, you know, you can
restart your day at any time. The first
thing you have to recognize, though, is, I
always say like, the first step is, like,

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you gotta slow the down. Because if you, if
you don't slow down enough, you don't even
recognize that the water is rising around
your ankles, and then it's at your shins,

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and then it's at your knees right like you
don't even realize, like, the shit storm you
have gotten yourself. So the first thing is
we got to slow down so that we can first,

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first of all, recognize that things aren't
really that great, you know what I mean? And
then we have to have the ability to just
stop so, like, bam, hit the pause button.

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Like, and just stop for a moment. And once
we recognize, oh my god. Like, first of all,
take a look around. Need to make a change.
We're going to restart my day right? First,

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we're going to pay attention, we're going to
slow down, we're going to stop, we're going
to pause. And then, because we want to make
new decisions or intentions or whatever,

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from a place where we're not hijacked by our
fear. We're not caught up in the trauma
response of whatever your particular way of
responding tends to be. We want to pause and

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take a really good deep breath, right? Take
a series of deep breaths. I always say
breathe in four to the count of four through
your nose, and then breathe out to the count

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of eight, twice as long, through your mouth,
with sound, right? There's lots of different
sounds you can make, just like, like
breathing out, just slowing down, and then

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you just simply take kind of a moment to
reflect, take a look around, reflect on how
what you've been thinking, right? Because so
much of what we believe, what we think, is

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what's creating our experience. We all know
that we have all had a shift in perception
at some point in our life where we were
like, oh, and it's literally like the lights

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went on, like we were stumbling around in
the dock, and all of a sudden we had a shift
in perception. It was like, Oh, we realize
some things, right? And so we want to take a

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moment to reflect on how we've been
thinking, how we've been feeling, how we've
been being, you know what I mean? And then
we have an opportunity to reset our mindset.

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When you think about that word mindset, it's
about your mind has been set in a very
particular way, and now we want to reset
that mindset to actually be working in your

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favor, because a lot of times we're
patterned with beliefs and identities and
stories, right, that are not setting us up
for our best possible outcomes, for the good

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results, right, for the effects that we
actually want to be having in our life, in
our relationship with ourselves and with
other people. So we have an opportunity to

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reset our mindset, ask ourselves some
reflective questions, and then we can
intentionally choose how we want to spend
the rest of our day, you know? And of

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course, in miracles talks about this. It
says like when you first wake up in the
morning, you can choose the kind of day that
you want to have like you intentionally set

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your mind. I'm not saying it's always going
to go exactly that way, but, man, we can
start our day with the positive intention,
with the intention to lead with love, to be

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more patient, whatever the thing is, right,
that you feel like you need more of and
essentially, like you're making a conscious
decision to approach the remaining time that

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you have left in your 24 hours, but also
maybe in your life with a fresh perspective
and new intentions, right? So that you can
do a little preventative kind of effort if

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your life has been reflecting things to you
that you don't like, that you're not proud
of, that don't feel in alignment with your
values or who you truly are, or where you

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want to be, or how you want to be living and
loving and all of these things. It is never
too late to change, to have a different to
allow life to reflect something new,

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and so we have to stop making different
choices now for ourselves, so that what's
kind of coming down the pike, right? And we
start doing it now, and it can be really

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easy now, look, I'm not saying, I'm not
saying that we shouldn't take time during
the winter and at the end of the year to
just simply rest. It's not like I want to

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feel like I'm always giving you more
homework and you got to do all this work on
yourself or whatever, like people can take
some of this, leave the rest. Take what

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works, apply it. Leave the rest. Right. I'm
not, I'm not big into I am not at all into,
like, hustle culture, and always got to be
productive and but I will say that we do

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have to kind of watch our minds like a hawk,
and life is always revealing to us, right
who we have been. I really do believe this,
you know. And I think that while we still

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have some time left, we have a few more. We.
Left at the end of the year. You know, why
wait until January 1 rolls around to to
like, then be like, well, now I'm going to

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do all this stuff. What if we just took a
little bit of time right now to start to be
a little a little reflective and a little
preventative, so that when the new year

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rolls around, we're already building a
little momentum in the right direction, so
we start to think about things now. Instead
of just like throwing our hands up and

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giving up and saying, like, Ah, fuck it.
I'll wait till just wait till January, maybe
we take a little time right now to dream and
to visualize how we want to move forward,

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who we want to be, so that we are being
causal in a way that's going to produce
effects that we actually want. Does that
make sense? Like taking time right now,

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because if our current experience is a
reflection of our past choices, our
thinking, our actions and our ways of being.
Then if we want to have something different

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coming down the pike, maybe we have to take
time right now to consider how we might want
to be different. Show up different, right?
Maybe we want to get you know, some support,

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or join a community or have a mentor, or go
to therapy or start going to the gym or get
a coach or whatever. The thing is, read some
books, slow down like really, just get off

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of autopilot and start to be wicked
intentional about who and how we want to be.
And you know, in chapter 21 of A Course in
Miracles, there's this great there's this

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great passage that I want to share with you.
And I've talked about this before, about how
Projection makes perception like meaning,
like how we think in our mind, right? The

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internal world is creating our experience in
the external world, we project out onto the
world, and then we perceive it back, and we
think, Oh, I'm at the effect of the world.

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The world is the cause of my suffering. It's
all the stuff out there that's making me
feel this way, be this way, did it? I'm not
saying, hear me, loud and clear that things

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that happen outside of us, that are beyond
our control don't have effects on us. I'm
not saying that we can't often control what
happens in the world, but we can change how

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we think about the world. What's in our
control is how we're responding to what
happens in the world. So this little
passage, chapter 21 it says, Projection

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makes perception. The world you see is what
you gave. It nothing more than that.
Meaning, again, what we're seeing in the
world is the projection that what we've

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given it like what we've projected onto the
world. Okay? And it says, it goes on to say,
the world is a witness to your state of
mind. It is the outside picture of an inward

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condition. As a man thinketh, so does he
perceive? Therefore, seek not to change the
world, but choose to change your mind about
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It's a reflection and not a cause.
Perception is an effect. And when you really
think about this, it's incredibly powerful,
because it puts some of the impetus and the

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power and the control right back into in
responsibility, right like, back into
ourselves. So if I want to and again, it can
be anything. It can be like, I want to save

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more money in 2025 I want to, you know, get
in better shape, like I want to have more
strength. I want to have more rest. I want
to have better sleep. I want to have better,

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more connected relationships, like whatever
it is, if currently what your life is
reflecting to you is some shit that you are
done with, you are over, you are not feeling

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it. You don't want it. You want it to be
different, then we have to make some
conscious choices of who and how we are
going to be, and we can't wait around. You

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know, if you haven't listened to that whole
episode, my BE, DO have episode, right? So
often people are like, well, once I have
this right? So hold on one second. Hey,

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thank you for sticking with me. I paused
because I wanted to grab the book creative
visualization by Shakti Guin, because that's
where this concept comes from. And it's

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always really important to me that I give
credit, and I wanted to make sure that I
said it exactly the way that she says it,
because that's where it comes from. So she

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says. She says, often people attempt to live
their lives backwards. They try to have more
things or more money in order to do more of
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So what they're really doing, she's saying,
is that they try to have do, be, right?
Their processes have do be I'm going to try
to have more things or more money in order

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to do more of what I want, so then I'll be
happier. But the way it actually works, she
says, is in reverse, you must first be who
you really are, like your true self, that

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that that self as the divine created you to
be, which really is just love, right? That's
who you are. Is Love. You've heard me say it
1000 times. You must first be who you really

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are, and then do what you need to do in
order to have what you want. So you want to
connect with your beingness who you really
are, and that's going to help you focus and

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facilitate your doing this, what you're
doing in the world, and this is going to
increase and expand your having this. And
this is what I'm talking about, your your

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life has been a reflection of what you have
been doing, the things that you've been
having, and how you've been being and so
sometimes we need to, like, tweak those

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things a little bit, you know, and if your
life again, like I said, is not reflecting
shit back to you that you really love. And
now some of it, I get, some things are

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outside of our control. A lot of the things
that happened to us when we were children,
we were younger, when we were at the mercy
of other people, were outside of our

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control. But now we can choose how we want
to relate, to interpret the meaning and the
purpose we've given to those things. As
adults, we now get to take our power back

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and choose who we want to be, and I want
your life to be, reflecting back, like my
hope for you, like my hope for you, my wish
for you is that your life reflects back to

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you just how loved you are, just how
beautiful and loving and lovable and enough
and creative and capable and strong and
brilliant that you are. And so we have to

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kind of shift sometimes out of maybe who
we've been spending a lot of time with, how
we've been spending our money, how we've
been thinking the patterns and the habits

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that we've created. And this is so much
about, like, the work that I do in the world
with people to be helpful. Again, I can't
stress it enough. It's not like, Oh my God,

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you have so much work to do on yourself.
Like you're a mess. You need to fix

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yourself. It's not that. It's like these
little subtle tweaks. You know, have you
ever looked through a kaleidoscope and you
just shift it? You know, when we were kids,

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we looked through these kaleidoscopes and
you would just shift it, that's tiny Smidge,
and it was like, all of a sudden we had a
whole new perspective, a whole new beautiful

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picture. So so much of this is just creating
shifts in perception, shifting out of
thought systems of fear and moving more into
thought systems of love, gathering more

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tools that will help us to navigate both
like and this is the thing I always say.
It's not woo, woo. It's true, true, right?
I'm talking about not just like, oh, it's

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spiritual principles, yes, and scientific.
Subconsciously, we know that the I am into
practical tools to help us shift, right? I
gave you one here earlier, right? When you

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can't build a better path, here's how you
start your day over again, like six or seven
steps right, and they're fast. They're
quick. It's like you pause, you notice like,

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Oh, I'm about to do that thing, or, Oh, I've
done this thing so many times before. I
already know this outcome. This is not going
to end well. This is going to be like my

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causal thought or belief or action or words,
the things that's coming out of my mouth, is
going to create an effect that I already
know I don't want, and my life has already

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been showing me this is not what I want. So
what am I willing to do? Different? Think
different, say different, be different,
right? Because your life can be a beautiful

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reflection, and it starts from the inside
out. Our life is often reflecting back to
us, what we have thought, what we think,
what we say, who we've been, who we're

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being. And we get to tweak that, change
that, adjust that, expand that, rewrite it,
flip it, whatever we want to call it. We
get, I always and say, like your life is a

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story, write well and edit often, right?
Write well and edit often, and this is part
of that process. So I hope this has somehow
been helpful for you. It's gotten you to

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think, you know, I always say, I'm not here
to tell you what to think, but I do always
want to invite. People into thinking
differently, to just maybe get like, wicked

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curious. That's really what the show is
about. Is spreading more love and talking
about things in a way that maybe people lean
in and get a little curious and think, Huh,

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hadn't thought about it that way, or maybe
right? I always say I want this show to
either educate, elevate, enlighten or
entertain, to enrich people's lives. That's

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what I'm hoping that I'm able to do through
this show. And here's the thing, man, like
the things that I share on the show, I
always say, like, you don't have to take my

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word for it. I always want I want my
clients. I want the people in the nest. I
want everybody to find things out for
themselves. I'm going to share some things.

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I'm going to drop some spiritual
breadcrumbs. I'm going to say this is what
worked for me. Here are some tools. Here's a
way of looking at it, blah, blah. Ask some

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good questions, right? Because you have the
answers inside of you like nobody knows you
better than you. You have your own internal
teacher, but sometimes we forget that, and

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we need people outside of us to help us
remember who we really are and how
resourceful we are, and to help us out, and
that's what I love to do. But I want your I

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always say, don't take my word for it,
because I want you to gather your own
evidence. I want your experience to be your
own proof. I want your experience of trying

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these things for yourself to be come your
evidence, that's what I'm into. So I hope
this has been helpful in some way. I super
duper appreciate you. I appreciate you

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tuning in and listening, and if you are one
of my listeners, and look, I think I
mentioned it. I think I mentioned it on last
week's podcast that I'm going to be starting

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to offer online yoga. So right now it, the
plan is I'm going to start with one class
and see how it goes, and hopefully, if
enough people are, like, into it and we're

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digging it. I mean, I had a TV show for 13
years, so I know how to teach online. Like,
I'm not worried about that. It's just that I
think people sometimes are afraid to try new

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things. But I just want to say to you, like,
if you're at all curious, and if you're on
my email list, you're going to be the first
to like, get the sign up link and stuff like

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that. So if you're not already on my list,
go to Karen kenney.com/sign up. You can also
just shoot me a message and stuff like that,
because I still have to figure out, like,

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What the You know, I know what the I know
what the first link is going to be. But
like, the direct link to like, sign up. I
don't have that yet. I'll have it this

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afternoon, so, but I think it's just going
to you could probably just find it by going
to Karen kenney.com/yoga like that. Might
first take you to the page. We'll see, I

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guess I should check that before I send you
there. And I'm doing it right now. I'm
typing as fast as I can. Oh, real time.
Yeah, yeah. Okay, so I gotta go in and tweak

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this. But, yeah, you can go to Karen
kenney.com/yoga I gotta, I gotta tweak that.
But that's where the the link will
eventually be, where you can find it out.

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But if you're interested in doing that, I
would love to have you join me. It's going
to be on Tuesday nights, 6pm Eastern Time,
My Time, it'll be over zoom, and I'll be

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telling you more about it, like I said in
the email, and maybe on the next episode
I'll have more. I think the first class is
going to be on January 7. So we got a little

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time. We got a little time for you to get
the details and get everything you need,
like a yoga mat, some blocks, a strap, all
that stuff, but I'm wicked excited to do it,

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and it's going to allow me to share my love
of yoga and this practice that I love, that
has been so incredibly helpful in healing in
my own life with so many other people. And

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it's one of the reasons why I had a TV show
for so long, is I wanted to be able to bring
yoga to people who maybe otherwise could not
get to a class in person. So I feel like I'm

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kind of going back to my roots a little bit,
which is wicked exciting. So I mean, I, of
course, I love teaching in person. I'm going
to also be doing that in 2025 I have a class

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coming up in January at yoga from the hat in
Laconia, so that in New Hampshire. So that's
going to be wicked fun. I think that's on
January 10, anywho. Thank you for listening.

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Thank you for sticking around this long. I
hope that you know we start to find, if your
life already is not reflecting beautiful
things back to you, that we can start to do

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some things now, build a little momentum,
momentum as we're going into the new year,
so that when we hit January, we're not
starting from behind, like we've already

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been thinking about these things, starting
to implement, maybe a couple of things,
right? Just even if you just think one new,
like habit per quarter of the year, like,

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you know, just like habit sat gradually and
slowly, but just start with something that
feels really important to you, and let's
just start to think about it, and daydream

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and visualize and put some things into
action. I'm really into practical
application, so let's see how it goes, and
let's see what starts to be reflected back

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to us in 2025 would be wicked curious to to
hear from you, but gather your own evidence.
Find out for yourself. Let your own
experience, right, show you. Show you and

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not just take my word for it, okay, but
thanks for listening. Okay? I appreciate you
wherever you go, right? May you leave
yourself and the animals and the people and

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the planet, the environment, better than how
you first found it, wherever you go, may you
be a blessing. Bye. Bye.