Hi, I’m
Weston

After providing over 15,000 hours in session and speaking, I recognize that… “You’re much stronger and more empowered than you think you are…”

Know Thyself

Sometimes the hardest thing in the world is to actually see yourself. You may have taken personality tests, apptitude tests, and maybe you’ve wondered if your neudivergent?  But if you were to know anybody, it would seem logical that you’d know everything about yourself.

Know Thyself

How you think, process, socialize, rationalize may not be nearly as important as getting in touch with your Higher Self.

Almost everyone THINKS they know themselves.  But you don’t. Have you ever had a close friend tell you something about yourself that you didn’t know?  There’s a lot to uncover in getting to know your real self.

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Transcription: Know Thyself

[00:50.370] – Weston Jolly
Hi there. Thank you for joining me for True Connections with Weston Jolly. This is our 77th episode. Today, I want to talk about you. Our topic which is Know Thyself.

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The biggest treasure you’ve yet undiscovered.

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Now, you would think with the topic as knowing yourself, that if anyone in the world were to know who you are, it would be you, right? So isn’t it logical that you would know quite a bit about yourself? So if I asked your name, of course, you would give me that. Your height? Sure. What about your weight? Without looking at a scale. Can you tell me what your weight is?

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Now, again, our whole intention is to have an understanding of who we are, to know ourselves. And we use all kinds of means to do that. When we think of, for example, becoming aware of who we are, sometimes we’ll use maybe something like a personality test. A personality test can tell us different kinds of things. It can tell us maybe that we have that we’re a conscientious person, or maybe that you’re agreeable, maybe neurotic, or open, or extroverted, or introverted. Do you associate with any of these top characteristics of having a big personality?

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Does anything resonate within you?

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But why would we need to have a personality test? Because, again, you would know who you are.

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If we shifted our attention over to an aptitude test, which, of course, is showing us what strengths and weaknesses that we have, wouldn’t it be logical, again, that you would know that you are very good, athletically, and maybe smart as a whip, intellectually, and yet maybe have some other pieces that aren’t necessarily strengths as would be determined or measured by other people?

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Now, in a work environment, being tested for your aptitude is quite common, right? Where a prospective employer wants to have an understanding of how you work, basically how you process and how you’ll work within their organization. And so they offer aptitude tests such as; numerical reasoning or verbal reasoning or situational judgment, cognitive abilities and spatial awareness and mechanical reasoning and abstract reasoning and verbal reasoning and on and on it goes to find out, again, what your strengths and weaknesses are. But my point is, do you know these things about yourself? Again, we’re just talking about the physical.

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If we talk about your mind, how your mind processes, would you consider yourself to have a normal mind? That sounds like a leading question, right?

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But maybe you have a neurodivergent mind. Now, that means that maybe you think differently. Sometimes ithe term neurodivergent we give consideration to other categories such as; autism spectrum disorder, or maybe even other categories such as attention deficit hyper activities for ADHD. And yet that’s not really what I’m asking. But if that’s something that is appropriate to who you are, that’s something to know.

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As a quick side note, there is someone that shared with me actually a neurodivergent synopsis of who they are. They literally handed out a little a brief of how they think, socialize and process. Now, not many of us have done that. I don’t know if you walked into your job recently and handed them a little document, a little manifest in terms of how you operate.

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I’m not talking about how much you weigh. I’m talking about how you think or how you get along with other people, what people you like, what energies that you bring to the office and what energies that aren’t necessarily great energies.

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Are these things that you’re able to see of your own self? Now, we’re still talking about the physical. If we talk about, again, your body type, that should be easy, right?

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How would you describe your body type? Are you an ectomorph or mesomorph or an endomorph? And of course, these are just very interesting terms for someone that is maybe thinner as an ectomorph to someone maybe that is a little bit thicker in the endomorph category. But again, these body types, just those three categories, should be easy for you to determine where you fit.

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But then there’s the shape of your body, right? You could be triangular shaped or rectangular-shaped or oval-shaped, hourglass, etc. Do you know that about yourself? Have you given consideration to that?

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And if I ask a question about your blood type… Do you know your blood type? Are you “A” or a “B” or “B-”?

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Let’s continue shifting this discussion, of knowing yourself, a little bit towards the spiritual. What if I asked you your birth date? Clearly everyone knows their birth date, but maybe you don’t know what time you were born. And that could make a difference when you were looking at your astrological sign.

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And so if we looked at different astrological signs, such as Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, etc, we want to give you an opportunity through these categorizations to have an understanding of who you are.

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This is all about knowing who you are. But if you have used tools such as maybe Astrology to to reflect back to who you are, there’s something else to give consideration to, and that is, are you accepting what is being shared? That’s really big. That’s something we’re going to talk about in a half a moment.

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As an example, if you are… I’ll use myself –a Gemini. When I first read the about my astrological sign, and I’m talking about when I did this upteen years ago, some pieces of it made sense to me, and the other pieces I felt like it was an over generalization. Now, that was my initial consideration. I wasn’t trying to be prejudiced against the process. I just didn’t necessarily see the depth of things that were being shared.

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Some of the concepts about my personality or how I process or how I view things made sense. And yet I was curious. And so I shared this, my astrology synopsis about the whole Gemini Kingdom, if you will, with others around me, especially with those close to me to see what they thought.

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And of course, my children and even my partner confirmed that, “Oh, yeah, these things are really you!” And I was like, “Really? I’m really having a hard time seeing that about myself.”

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This is really what we want what I want to focus on with you today. And while we’ve been talking about things from body to mind to aptitudes, and how you process, we haven’t talked about how you socialize, blood types, astrological signs, these are all beautiful characteristics of you.

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You becoming aware of who you are and what you’ve come here to express. Yet there’s so much more. And really, what I want to put our emphasis is on getting to know or maybe even rediscovering. This is why I’m sharing that this is the biggest treasure yet you’ve undiscovered, is getting in touch with your True Self or your Higher Self. And what does this mean? Sometimes that language is thrown about a little bit in terms of what is your Higher Self. So let’s discuss that. Your Higher Self is indeed this soul, that’s you, on the highest plane, coming into this embodiment and participating here. So if we tap into that, your Higher Self, should we say that’s the true essence?

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That part of you is filled with knowledge, and I’ll use the term perfect knowledge of who you are way beyond your DNA, your family tree, your body type, your blood type, etc. Again, all of these pieces physically are, I like to use the term Hansel and Gretel-like-breadcrumbs, leading you to an understanding of you are.

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So, to know yourself, is to really become aware of who you are – instead of just trying to give consideration to what you may or may not be. So, you getting to know yourself beyond the physical is intentional with our putting focus attention on your Higher Self or your Real Self. And we can do that through many different ways. There are tools, and one of the best tools that I’ve given consideration to that came to me falling in my lap was automatic writing. I feel so strongly about it that I put forth a course called Secrets of Free Writing. I really encourage you, if you are interested in this topic of really knowing thyself, that automatic writing or Secrets of Free Writing is a tremendous tool to do that.

[09:49.070] – Weston Jolly
Now, there’s a whole bunch of information on my website about Automatic Writing, and please go there because it’s worthy of your attention. I’m saying that not just because of my own experience, but because it offers you a continued reflection. Think of it like Meditating With a Pen(tm) , where you’re literally in this meditative space choosing to get in touch with your Higher Self, and you’re able to capture that through your writing.

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If that’s something that does resonate with you, please check out Secrets of Freewriting

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There are indeed other tools for you to get connected with your Higher Self. Some people may choose to use a tool such as yoga. And yoga is a very interesting tool because it keeps, in my opinion, your body busy in a very healthy way. It really instructs you through focused attention to breathe, which is a source, pun intended, of connecting with your higher self. And as you choose to remain connected to your higher self, you have an opportunity to, again, capture what I will reflect as the real you. Now, sometimes this feels out of sorts with those things that you have incarnated into.

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There are plenty of people that have come into this realm and they look at their bodies and perhaps even their gender, and they wonder that maybe they made a mistake. Maybe their sexual affiliation being presented as male feels wrong when they feel within themselves that they should be female. And so they go to great lengths to make those changes, appropriately so, because this is something that they feel within themselves that needs to be aligned.

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And of course, as you know that, it’s really giving yourself the tremendous gift. Think of the energy that it takes to have somebody go through such a transition where they feel comfortable enough to make that change within their physical embodiment to create an alignment with their spiritual self. I honor each and every person that gives themselves permission to exist regardless of how it might be considered from the outside.

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Now, it’s not just about your body or your sexual orientation. Sometimes this means realizing where you come from in terms of the family tree, even right down to your, again, blood type or your DNA. Having an understanding that these things that make you look like Mom and Dad, or even the characteristics that were taught to you by Mom and Dad, and the community, that they may not be you.

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It takes a brave soul, if I can use that term, to give themselves permission to see that, and to know that about themselves, and to make those changes. These changes come about through free-will choice, which is really incredible if we give consideration to that, that there’s endless possibilities for you to give yourself permission to really exist as you are.

[12:54.690] – Weston Jolly
Again, as a conscious being, and I want that to be understood because There’s no other species on Earth that has to deal with this. Other animals, if you will, don’t have to try to manage themselves. They are, if you will, a giraffe, a dog, or a cat, or a lion. These attributes aren’t necessarily something that needs to be worked at. And yet sometimes people, when they come to an understanding of having awareness of who they are, the question that they might present, and I hear a lot, they’ll ask the question, “Well, how do I be myself?”

[13:33.440] – Weston Jolly
That comes immediately after the discovery of who you are. In your choice to see yourself as you are through automatic writing or perhaps yoga, breathing, meditation, as we’ve talked about for a moment, these are tremendous tool presenting you total access to yourself.

[13:51.760] – Weston Jolly
This can be through guided meditation as well, where someone would guide you, perhaps through a recording, to have you be presented with questions like.

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Who are you?

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What have you come to express?

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And as you give attention to this reflection, whether it’s coming through someone like myself, or through automatic writing, or again, yoga, or meditative state, you have an opportunity to accept that, which is something really, really important because guess what?

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The mind or the egoic parts of you, that’s the part that wants to deny, right? That’s the part that wants to shift or push aside that this isn’t true. And yet when you channel or you participate in this consistently, you’ll find that some really beautiful attributes continue to show themselves.

[14:38.750] – Weston Jolly
Let me share with you this example. I was facilitating a woman, and I channeled that she was “beautiful”. Now, it wasn’t just a adjective that was being channeled to describe her physical beauty. It was describing something much deeper than that. And she had a significant resistance to the word. And she even asked me as the person facilitating, “Could there be another word, beyond being called ”beautiful” that could be used?

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I laughed and I said, “No, that’s actually the word that is being chosen, that I’m channeling the word ‘beautiful’ because of your resistance to it.”

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And she said, “I feel irritated with that word.” And I said, “I understand. And if you force me to use another word, I can. However, from a spiritual perspective, from a pure channeling perspective, that is indeed the correct term. And then she bent a little bit and said, ”I understand.”

[15:35.790] – Weston Jolly
And in this example, she was resisting what we’ll call her spiritual or inner luminescence. Now, she was indeed a beautiful woman, but she wasn’t necessarily seen as a beautiful woman from the inside. A lot of times people saw her external beauty and that was fine. But she was trying or wanting or hoping to give herself permission to have access to something greater. But yet she was denying that.

[16:02.930] – Weston Jolly
I’m sharing this example because that’s something for each of us to give consideration to, because sometimes when we get to know who we really are, we’ll tend to reject it. We can do that when we jump on a scale. We can reject the idea that we weigh that much or we weigh that little. But we don’t want to do that when we really tap into knowing who we are.

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And if we’re using spirit, tapping into Source in whatever infinite ways that you want to have access to, then you’re going to find that they’re very consistent in showing you some really specific things about who you are.

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So if Source is sharing with you that “you’re very loving,” please don’t roll your eyes yeah, all right, whatever. And yet that’s, again, this part of the resistance. We don’t want to do that. In fact, that’s the part most of all that we want to give attention to, focus attention. As we continue to accept that, you’re going to bounce into some really cool things that could be described as uncomfortable as I was mentioning.

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But I’m encouraging for you to accept everything and to stop denying or pushing away the truth. And some of these concepts are as easy as having an understanding of some basic attributes of what you’ve come here to do. Now, again, in this realm, this physical realm of coming to Earth as an incarnate being, not everyone’s choosing to do something that would be transformative from a low level to a higher level.

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There’s plenty of people who are coming to this realm just to participate, like an actor who is acting the part of being somebody who’s “mean or behaviorally maladjusted,” or wanting to take advantage of people or maybe wanting to cheat or steal or even worse. And for those these things are fine. That’s just a part of this realm.

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But if there’s some part of you that has been searching or needing or wanting to discover, again, who you are, again, beyond the physical, then this is that place to really jump into who you are. And seeing that and feeling that and having recognition. So let me share some of those things with you because it’s very important.

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Do you see yourself as loving?

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Don’t just hear the sentence. Feel it.

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Are you compassionate?

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Are you sensitive?

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How do things affect you?

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Whether that’s personal to you, that’s your own body, or even outside of your own body. Somebody could sneeze on a plane and it could affect you. Again, there’s no right or wrong answer here, right? But as you choose to really get in touch with who you are, your Higher Self, you’ll find that there’s really beautiful pieces that, again, continue to be seen again and again.

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So if you find that you have a deep compassion for people, or animals, or even the environment, there’s reasons for that. And when you align with that, meaning to know that about yourself, it isn’t an oddity –like a salmon swimming upstream.

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That species is designed to do that for very specific reasons of spawning. But if we understand what we are in terms of who we really are on this soul level, in this Higher Self level, as we participate in the physical level, it becomes easier. Now, this becomes even funner when we tap into how we want to express ourselves.

[19:26.560] – Weston Jolly
Now, when that becomes aligned, meaning when we align ourselves in terms of who we are, and we align that with something that we’ve come here to really want to express, such as a desire, oh, my gosh, it becomes easy. You’ll find that if you study and put attention to this, that those people who are expressing and really good at it, whether that being an actor or a singer or maybe even spiritually inclined, that there’s an alignment to that, meaning that’s really who they are, and then they’re matching that with this choice to express.

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In essence, it becomes easy. That’s something not as a spiritual aptitude test that you want to give yourself, but you want to remember, as you incorporate that into your physical self, it creates an ease, a comfort, a beauty.

[20:12.700] – Weston Jolly
Ultimately, there’s no resistance. And even someone recognizing that as a tremendous aptitude that you have or this gift of you being very loving or maybe extraordinarily compassionate with animals such as a veterinarian. Those attributes are, of course, spiritual applied from the physical perspective, and that’s match, we can feel that.

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If you have talked to a veterinarian who’s participating in that career, you’ll feel unduly connected to them versus someone who’s just doing time and wanting to help the pet, your pet, and of course, in exchange for money. But most of us who are very connected to our animals will want someone that wants to take care of our pets and animals the same way that we do, which is through love… Then we’re not just feeding or taking care of a pet for the pet’s sake. We’re choosing to participate in a way that’s very aligned with our wanting to share love, even with the animal kingdom; our dog, cat, horse, hamster, rat, or even a lizard.

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It’s really exciting to understand, again, who you are and what you come to express. And these expressions, physically and spiritually, if you choose, can be aligned. So let’s go into that just a little bit. If you find yourself very compassionate and very loving, and yet you are participating in something like telemarketing, where that entity is designed to consciously take advantage of people through that effort, you may find that to be difficult.

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And it could even cause physical issues within your body, which is your body saying, “Hey, this doesn’t match. We have an imbalance.” The spiritual self is saying, “This is outside of what we really want to do.” And yet the body is saying, “Hey, we need to be paid because we need to live, we need to have food, etc. and we’re doing what we have to do.” And yet, there is a fundamental conflict. And that can come in many different forms. And yet when we choose to see that we can create alignment outside of any limitation, which, of course, comes from the mind or the ego. Again, I use the term shell. When I use the term Shell, I want you to think of eggshell.

[22:18.980] – Weston Jolly
It’s this external piece that we think that we are, and that comes from the mind. Interestingly enough, we can’t point to that within the mind body. Where the ego exists and where it doesn’t exist. And yet each of us have an ego. This is why we use the name, your name.

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But when we go beyond beyond this thing that we call a name, which is easy to reflect, we tie or are connected to this spiritual essence. And this spiritual essence is much more powerful than, if you will, my name or your name. And when we tap into that, it creates an attraction to us. And of course, that attraction is beyond in this physical lifetime.

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So you won’t forget me, in afterlife, if you will, because of my spiritual signature. Now, that’s a vibration. That’s something that is tied to my name in this incarnation. And this same spiritual signature has been used in previous incarnations. I have had different names, different bodies, different genders, perhaps. Certainly different lineages in terms of the family. And yet, how can I do that? How can I participate in lineage one and be this character or this person and then come here again in a second reincarnation, in a third incarnation?

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Yet this is all a part of us wanting to get to know who we are on a very connected level.

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Now, to do that, to really connect, and we’ve been using, talking about these different tools, again, Secrets of Freewriting, automatic writing, and yoga breathing, meditation, all of these tools are really offering you an opportunity to go within. When we tap into that connected with in state, again, we’ll find that there’s consistency in showing us who we are.

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Now, sometimes that can be very challenging because if you’re told that “you’re very loving,” and that’s in conflict to what your mom and dad told you that you weren’t or aren’t… And in my case, if you’re told you’re too loving –imagine that —someone telling you that you’re too loving, then that can create a conflict.

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It’s just a conflict to your mind or that condition that you grew up with. This is something that we want to observe, but not be, shall we say, overly attached to.

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We want to go past that. Giving yourself permission to tap into your Higher Self, your True Self, is to really know who you are. It’s the biggest treasure yet undiscovered. As you spend time in this space, which is just basically focused attention, and you can do that just by holding an attention right now –“I choose to know who I am.”

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When you choose that, you’ll hear words from Source like; “Creator” or “love,” you may bump into the competitive mind, again, coming from the shell or the ego. But in time, this conflict will begin to diminish. In fact, you’ll find yourself moving into, we could use the term a divine state. We could also use the terms a connected state, a unifying state, and even a state of oneness.

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This connected state, is something that’s very consistent, regardless of your background, regardless of where in the world that you’ve come from, regardless of a philosophy that you’ve been exposed to from a condition perspective. This oneness is what brings us together. And this is why this is so important for you to give yourself permission to really see who you are, to get in touch with your Higher Self.

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And you can just ask a question, What is my Higher Self? What does it have to say? In this moment, give consideration to what your Higher Self wants to tell you?

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Or like Hansel and Gretel follow the bread trail leading you to have further personal development of who you are. Be attentive to these things, your personality, your weight, your body type, these pieces, the way you think, the way you process, even the way your mind processes. It’s all beautiful clues.

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Some of what you may find won’t be in spiritual alignment with who you are. This part of the puzzle won’t fit. When that’s happening, instead of trying to force a puzzle piece, we want to observe the fact that I am not thinking the way everyone else is thinking, even though my whole family thinks that way.

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I choose to give myself permission to observe that I’m neurodivergent compared to my family. And that’s okay. That means I’m just thinking differently than my family does. And that’s maybe a good thing. And if we see that you don’t have to fight with that, then we are able to accept who you really are.

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And again, that’s a very key term. So you being in comfortable to accept who you are through this reflection of your Higher Self, that’s what this is all about.

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Put focused attention on you becoming aware of what your Higher Self and what it wants to reflect to you. Be attentive to that. Write it down. Do that now.

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If you’re listening to this in a car, fine. When you get home, take a moment, breathe. Become connected, ask, “What is it that my Higher Self wants to tell me in this particular moment?”

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That’s a question I’m asked often, especially by my family members, because there’s an interest for that reflection to be shown to them again and again. When you’re asking questions like that, and when you’re putting focused attention on seeing your Higher Self, you’ll find that there is a pattern.

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This is when all the puzzle pieces start to come together. This is why I say that it’s easy. Suddenly there’s an a sense of understanding of what you’ve come to express, and that when that coincides with the physical pieces, then your claim your choice to physically express becomes really wonderful and quite easy and fun.

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I hope this has been tremendously beneficial to you to give yourself permission to really know who you are.

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This is the biggest treasure yet undiscovered, and so giving your attention to it is without merit in terms of what it will do for you.

 

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