Live True To You » Episode 2. Finding support and connection on your spiritual path

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Lori: It's okay to be spiritual even if you're not religious. Don't have any crystals to put under the moon and don't have time to meditate.
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Helen: Because that's when life gets fun, becomes fulfilling, and then you discover that it really is okay to be spiritual.
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Lori: Welcome back to another episode of It's Okay to Be Spiritual. I'm Lori, I'm Helen and Helen shuffling away because we've decided for every episode we will ask the universe what it would like us to talk about and share with you. And so, as Helen shuffles today, the cards are very sticky. Here we go. Oh, support for you and also your community of support around you.
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Helen: This is such a great topic. We did write a few notes on the back of the card, but I don't think we're actually going to need them. This is such an important topic, so never do this spiritual journey alone. We actually never are alone because you've always got your spirit guides and the whole team behind you. However, it's just so physically satisfying to have people to talk to about this.
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Lori: And I just want to, uh, point out that when you go into the journey, it may not be intentional. So with me, I didn't intend to go into this journey. So I sat by my lonesome for maybe nine months until I met someone that I connected with, and I had the the moment. Are you thinking, do you know what I know? Do you know? Do you know that I know what you know that I know. So we had one of those moments. And my friend, she.
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Helen: Swears she doesn't read your mind. Is she telling the truth?
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Lori: And so I felt in my body that my team was saying this, this person, this person that you've met is one of you. So and I just want to also point out not not in a creepy way, but I was doing some spell candles under the new moon for community. Nothing. Nothing sinister. Nothing against my highest good, but I would. So I fell in March 2023 and by May I was doing spells, you know, because that's just what I do. And so I was manifesting for like minded people because I was really lonely and I didn't know who to ask. And the few people I'd reached out to had promoted themselves as spiritual guidance or mentors online, or I would have a reading with someone, and all I did was confuse the hell out of me.
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Helen: Oops.
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Lori: And I they were saying things like when you get light of the dark will come for you have you seen the shadow people in your room?
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Helen: What
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Lori: You know as you... And it just scared me. And I just knew.
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Helen: That's unnecessary. No one needs to be scared.
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Lori: Unnecessary. Completely unnecessary. So none of and I haven't. No, I haven't seen the shadow people. Thanks. You know. Thank you, but no. And so I did have someone who I. Who was another reader that I'd had a reading from. And I messaged him, but we just didn't have that connection. And I really wanted that personal connection, not an online one. Even though my spiritual bestie now is online and, you know, we chat and we are physical people and we do zoom chats to catch up. But I was manifesting community because I felt lonely, and I just wanted someone to sit beside me and go, you're not crazy. That's what happens. And that's actually really beautiful. And let's share your story and let's laugh at it and I'll share mine. Mhm.
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Helen: Yep. The other thing to me that support means is, you know, this spiritual journey is like up and down, up and down, up and down. And so when we're in a downer, we need to find a way to bolster ourselves and find some support. And if that person can't sit beside you right in that moment, then pick up a book, listen to some music. Like, to me, support means every aspect of your life is supported. So I cannot tell you how many times when I've felt, um, challenged, uh, things have been moving or things have been clearing and I've felt really heavy, the self-doubt has started to creep back in. You know, all those things then I, I love to read, so I always pick up a book. For me, it's usually A Course of Love or some something. Um, maybe from Tina Louise Spalding or from, um, Gina Lake, but something really, really high vibration. And then I can feel the vibrate if I allow myself to absorb the vibration of the book, then that starts to lift my vibration and lift my thinking. Uh, so yeah, to me, community and support yourself is a physical thing. Like, how much fun are we having sitting here? But it's also a thing about what you surround your life with. You know, are there plants in your house? It's like, come in, can you pick up a book when you need to? And so on and so on.
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Lori: And it doesn't need to be some woo woo. You know, doing spells and, you know, throwing cinnamon through your door or putting salt, you know, around, you know, all.
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Helen: These things I don't even know about.
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Lori: Do you not cinnamon the door!?
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Helen: No!
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Lori: No, neither do I! I just know about it. But supporting yourself on on the journey or just even if you're not on the journey, but having having some type of support for you that is just yours that you can do when things are getting overwhelming. So for me it's exercise. Mhm. Whether that's going for a walk in the afternoon, whether you ride horses and you want to take your horse out for half an hour. Whether support could be catching up with a like minded mum friend and taking your kids to the park or meeting, meeting someone at the dog park and just doing that supportive practice that gets you into another headspace and other energy. And I like physical movement because it shifts the energy
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Helen: Yeah, nd it really does.
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Lori: If you're if you're just going through it and you don't want to talk to someone, because sometimes we don't want to delve into the depths of of whatever we're processing and having that for you, where you just go into a different space. So for me, it's tennis. I played tennis twice a week and that's always there. And I always go, you know, I will never not go. And maybe Pilates, you know, I just fit it all in because these are the supportive practices for my energetic body and for my mind. And that isn't a spiritual thing. That's in every one thing.
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Helen: Yeah. Or you can make an everyone thing a spiritual thing. So sometimes if I love to swim, so if I'm having one of those times when stuff needs to be cleared out, I imagine it just rushing out as I hear the water rushing past me when I'm doing the laps. Like you can do laps any old way, but that way can work if that's what you need at that time.
00:07:14
Lori: Andwater is so cleansing, particularly emotional cleansing. Mhm. Yep.
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Lori: So Helen, can you tell us an instance in your life where you have felt really supported.
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Helen: Oh yeah. So I think it's worth starting this story with the synchronicities that started. As I just said, I love to swim. So one day when I was at the pool, the woman who managed that particular pool, she knew that I was into Heart Math, that I'd done my heart math training. And I talked about the heart, and she said, oh, Helen, have you heard about this guy in Brisbane who does Heart Resonance? And anyhow, so that led to another conversation and another woman that I swam with said And have you heard about this book called A Course of Love? And so that synchronicity and those conversations unfolded, and I ended up doing both the Heart Resonance and A Course of Love. But the Course of Love a group was the most incredible support on my journey. The.. there was this wonderful group of people, all about roughly 40 years older than me, who had all studied A Course of Miracles and were now studying the following text, which is A Course of Love. And they just enveloped me into this group of about ten wise, wise souls and held me in that group as we read through the text and as my, you know, more of my spiritual journey unfolded. Oh my gosh, it was such a blessing. And so now to sort of pay it forward or back, whichever way you look at it, I now run A Course of Love reading group online so that people can join from all over the world, Obviously local people join as well. And, um, that's in a way sort of me honouring the beautiful way that I was held in that community. What about you, Lori?
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Lori: So support for me is still very self-support. I feel being new in the journey and only just starting to connect with like minded people and and putting myself out there in new situations. The support is very from The Universe for me and I feel it doesn't. It doesn't necessarily look like like this, like this is a beautiful way of support, but until you find that connection, you, you are supported so much more than what you realise.
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Helen: Yes, yes.
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Lori: That support comes in in the signs and the synchronicities and the the goosebumps and feeling that I'm not alone, that there is something else out there supporting me. And if I actually stop I will realise that that beautiful conversation I had with someone where they they mentioned, oh, I saw a feather this morning and that's, that's support to me because that's just The Universe saying there are more like you out there. You know, we are here. And when, when, when you need them, they will find you. And the right people are all coming in at the right time. And when you realise that and you start to see the numbers and, and I get a lot of native animal symbology, so the animals will start to drop in and I will realise that there is something up there and I know what it is. But you know, I know that my higher self is supporting me on the whole way and I just need to pause and see how that's working. And it maybe isn't the traditional way that you see support.
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Helen: But also we're supported when we don't know where supported. So one of my girlfriends from all the way back at uni, uh, has recently sort of woken up, I guess, through a oh, I don't need to tell that story? But she's woken up and she's rung me up and gone. Helen basically WTF? I probably shouldn't swear on this podcast. What is going on? You know, I've just had a reading and I thought I was getting a reading about, you know, my her personal situation, but they've actually told me I'm a Pleiadian Starseed soul and and what does that mean? You know, like so in a way, her spirit guides and, you know, our soul plans and whatnot had had me on just sitting on the sidelines holding her hand as a friend through life. But we hadn't really discussed deep spiritual things until she had this reading. And she's like, on the phone, Helen, I think you're the only person I could talk to about this. What does this mean?
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Lori: And as you start to verbalise what you're seeing, you will realise the person that sat beside you in the office will suddenly turn around and say, what did you just say? I have been wondering that I wondered why that kept popping up. Every time I walk in here, it's 8 2 2 and you're here and you will just start to realise that the support is always there. You just can't see it or you're just starting to see it. Mhm.
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Helen: Yep.
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Helen: I think there's a really beautiful lawn and A Course of Love. I've talked about it in this episode, so it's come to the forefront of my mind that um there's an attitude of gratitude between us now. And that's coming from spirit. You know, we are offering an attitude of gratitude for all the support and the support in places when we don't realise it, and the support in the surprising ways when we're really feeling down and maybe a bit disconnected and then, um, you know, spirits offering gratitude for us receiving an excitement, they get so excited.
00:12:53
Lori: And supporting other people. Helen, how would you support someone that needed that extra bit or that you thought may need support and they weren't reaching out, or they are reaching out?
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Helen: Well, that's my favourite thing to do. So maybe I'd like to answer this question as if I didn't do this work. And you know, it really comes down to holding space. So I feel like, you know, I've been crafting that art for some time. So what I want to say is, if you haven't been crafting that art for some time, don't worry, you can still do it. Just avoid anything that's judgement, comparison, control. Avoid telling the person what to do. Reassurance of course, but just do your best to hold space. And the best way to do that, if you haven't been crafting the art for some time, is to just get out of your head, open your heart, and be present for the person.
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Lori: Agree and understand that you perhaps may be triggered as well. Oh yeah, and seeing the bigger picture, right? You're not just sitting beside someone. It is a growth opportunity for you. And don't run when it gets hard. You're sitting in that space holding space for that person to help them grow. But you may be learning things about yourself as well.
00:14:20
Helen: Oh, yeah. Always stay alert. Observe everything. Just don't, um, attach onto it. Like just. Yeah. Be present.
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Lori: I think that wraps it up.
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Helen: I think it does wrap it up. Support can come in many different shapes, sizes and forms. Look for it all. So until the next episode. Hey, Lori.
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Lori: We'll catch you.
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Helen: But remember to send in your questions. We love a good question.
00:14:46
Lori: See you next time.
00:14:47
Helen: Bye.

Episode 2. Finding support and connection on your spiritual path

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