THE INTERSECTION OF HUMAN DESIGN & SPIRITUALITY
EPISODE #15: THE INTERSECTION OF HUMAN DESIGN & SPIRITUALITY
In this episode, Leah dives into the Intersection of Human Design and Spirituality. She discusses all of the following:
06:39 BTS on my Human Design App
08:53 Why I'm stepping into teaching
19:40 What is spirituality?
20:30 The point of spirituality
23:05 What is our highest self?
23:28 What can we do to be "spiritual"?
24:25 Being human vs spiritual beings
28:22 Language spiritual people use that confuses others
33:08 Practices to deepen your spirituality
Leah, 5/1 Sacral Generator, shares with us how spirituality and human design are similar. She explains how you can use both of these to live in alignment with your highest self. Leah discusses what spirituality is and how the language can confuse people but why you shouldn’t let that discourage you. She also shares some of her favorite ways to deepen her spirituality and how you can too!
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EPISODE TRANSCRIPT
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Hey guys, welcome back to another episode. I'm excited for today's episode because I want to talk about human design and spirituality and how they both sort of intersect together. Because a lot of times I think that we look at spirituality as one thing and then we look at these different systems that we have in the world like Akashic records or astrology or human design or.
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You know, religion, anything we look at those as sort of separate from what spirituality is. And so I wanted to dedicate an episode to talking about what spirituality is and then how human design ties into that and how you can really just live a more sort of spiritually centered life. And, you know, as always, I like to give a little bit of a personal update into my life and I just want to say, thank you.
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Again, I think I shared last week that there's just been so many people, , kind of listening to this podcast now, and it's kind of crazy, and I still don't feel like it's real, but yeah, I just want to say thank you so much because it still blows my mind to this day that so many of you tune in and care to hear what I have to say, and I don't know, just all the things, I know it's silly, but It really does feel crazy to me sometimes that I have this platform and all of you here.
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So thank you and so right now I, when this releases, I will be taking a vacation. I have never taken a vacation since I started kind of doing this full time and honestly it's not that I ever really needed like I never felt like I needed to. Something really interesting is like last summer I realized this because we got invited to go on a trip to Hawaii and I remember feeling like I didn't have to take a vacation from my life.
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And I think I've noticed this quite a bit in my everyday life, just on weekends and things too. I no longer feel the need to escape my life the way that I used to. And I think that's a really beautiful, , just thing. It really, I mean, that's purpose and it honestly ties into spirituality in a lot of ways too.
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But why I'm saying this is because I find myself so overjoyed and excited by the work that I do that I never really feel like I have to take a break from it. There's definitely like moments where I'm like, okay, you know, that's not where I want to spend my time. Or okay, maybe I, you know, overbooked myself this week.
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You know, we're all learning along the way in our lives. And so I definitely have moments like that where I'm like, Oh man, I wish like, you know, I wasn't working today and I'll take a day off here and there. I just don't wake up with energy, and I have, you know, the luxury a lot of times to be able to shift my schedule around or make changes, but what's been really nice is that really, like, I had a moment where last week I got a little bit ahead of myself in terms of my work that I had to do, my to do list, and I thought, you know what, my mom was coming out to visit pretty last minute, and then I am heading to Denver at the end of the week that this podcast releases, and so I thought, I should just take some time off.
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I never take time away from work. I never clear my mind. I've never one time ever put an out of office on my calendar, and oh my goodness, the spaciousness that I feel just through doing that is incredible. So. You're listening and you have the luxury of being able to maybe adjust your schedule, take a break, do it because I feel so much more present and clear and I know that there's going to be a day next week where I'm going to be like wanting to work because again, I love what I do, but I know that like that's going to bring the inspiration and creativity even more to my life.
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So. I wanted to just touch on that because I think it's just so important for us as we just move about our everyday lives is just to take time for us and to take time to, you know, just have space and do things that you love and be present. So that is what's going on with me. I did share that I am in the process of working on a human design app.
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And I'm really excited to announce today that You are going to have the chance to donate to this project and you're going to have the chance to be one of my first ever Users in this platform and I haven't even started building it quite yet We were just in the idea phase and figuring out what we want this to look like And how we want it to function and really what is going to be the magic of this human design app But I am going to be launching a platform It's through something called kickstarter where you can actually invest and donate in this part of my business and why I am doing this is because Number one, apps are really expensive to develop, more than you could even imagine.
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Developers are very skilled, specific people, and everyone wants developers right now. , developers, if you're, if you're looking for a job and you're any little bit of good at coding, I really highly recommend that you maybe learn how to code a little bit deeper, and maybe get, sharpen those skills, because there's always going to be Job opportunities in that realm.
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And so that said, I wanted to just share that I am, you know, needing support and help in this project, bringing this dream to life. And as we talk about manifestation, I, this, this whole thing kind of came around in a beautiful manifestation. For myself, and I'd love to have you all part of it. So in my Kickstarter, I launched a few different ways that you can actually be a part of this project.
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And so depending on what amount you donate, you actually win different rewards. And so there's different levels. So if you were to donate like the most amount of Money to help fund this project. you are going to get free one on one coaching with me. You'll get access to every single one of my trainings, my human design training that I'm releasing this summer.
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You'll get access to get a guidebook. You will get this giant bucket of just all of these offers and things that I do already in my business. And I shouldn't say for free, but basically there are rewards for each tier that you can donate. And so. I am excited to get people, you know, on board to want to back this project and want to see this thing come to life in my human design app.
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It will be a place for you to learn about yourself, so you will learn everything that you'd possibly ever would want to know about your human design at the luxury of your fingertips. You'll be able to add your friends, see their charts. Share things with them. I will have in there different tips for you.
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We will be working through transit. So there will be a whole function on, you know, what's kind of the energy that's happening in this moment. What you have access to in your chart. , there's going to be just so many layers involved in this app and how it's going to function. And I'm just so excited to see it come to life.
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I, there's There's really not that many human design apps that exist today, and there's a couple that are pretty good, and there's quite a few that aren't really great at all. And so I'm excited to be a part of, you know, one of the first human design apps that really comes to life. And so, yeah, I would love to just get people behind it.
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If you donate, you also will Get, you know, got first access to it. You'll get the beta version before it launches to the public. So you'll be a part of, you know, a launch party and just the entire process. I'm going to add you to my, my close friends list on Instagram. And so you'll get all the behind the scenes of everything that's going on with this app.
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And so I would just love to, you know, get more people excited about it. And so if that sounds like something that you're. If you're excited about two, then I will have the Kickstarter linked below and I'd love for you to be a part of this campaign and hopefully we see this dream come to life. I'm aiming right now for it to be something that comes into the world, hopefully by the end of this year or the beginning of next year, but we'll kind of just see how timelines shake out and things like that.
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So that's what I am moving through at the moment. And then if you haven't been paying attention, I think I announced this last week on my podcast, but I actually can't remember, but I'm launching my first ever live human design training. As you guys know, I used to teach human design in a mentorship style.
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It's still available on my website. I think I'm probably removing it the week that this podcast releases, but, you can still work with me in a mentorship style to learn human design, which is basically like, Right now, how you learn human design in most platforms is like either through a live training or through self paced courses or something in between or greater.
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And I did my mentorship style. So basically, if people wanted to learn with me, we did it one on one. It originally started with 12 sessions and then it moved to four one on one sessions and Boxer Access. So that's what it is today. But I have not really been promoting that program. I don't I have a ton of people moving through it at the moment because I have been turning it into something bigger and I am proud to announce that I'm launching my first ever live human design training and this is a live program to learn human design with me.
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I just am loving teaching. So right now I am in the, this group program that I created called the method. I have been teaching in this group program and I have a few one on one clients moving through the method as well. And I called it the method because it's like the method of really experimenting with your human design.
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And in this program, it's a really integrated journey of embodying your human design and spiritual wellness. And so I'm actually going to talk a little bit about some of the modules from that program today to link human design and spirituality together. I, in this program, I don't teach you human design.
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So it's not like you take this program and you learn human design. You're going to learn a lot about your human design specifically for you. But it's like, if you're a projector, you're not going to go through this program and learn everything about a reflector. Or, you know, if you were a 3/5 profile, you're not going to learn everything about a 6/2 in this program.
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You're going to learn about you and embody that and go on your own deconditioning journey and experiment. And so I love this group program. I plan to offer it twice a year. And it's been really great to be a part of. But something that I've learned through this program is that I just, I just love teaching human design.
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And I'm very Passion about it. We just had a call last week and someone asked me a human design question and it's instantaneous how I can tap into human design and just start talking about an aspect or what this means or how you find this in your chart. And obviously, I think it's because I've been doing it a lot longer than the method.
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This is my first cohort. But I just realized that I would like to teach a live course. I was originally just going to launch a self paced version to become a human design reader and to learn human design. But then I was like, honestly, I think I want to do a live course because I'd love to get people together.
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And originally I was thinking about doing it just two weeks really fast paced quick and like every day for two weeks and have this really immersive experience and I did a poll on my Instagram and I didn't either. I offer either two weeks, six weeks or potentially 12 weeks and Most of y'all wanted to do around six weeks.
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And so that's what we're going to do. So it'll be a six week program. I am still nailing down these specific dates, but the waitlist is open right now. And if you're on the waitlist, you will get early bird pricing for the program. I'm not going to cap the program at how many people can join. It'll be a totally unlimited number of people can join this live, but What's going to happen is we're going to have two live calls per week.
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They're not mandatory. They're 100%. If you can make them, it will be recorded. You will get access to a free community with all of the other people going through the program. There will be obviously Q and A areas for you to ask me questions and it's just going to be this really immersive, fun experience.
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Six weeks to learn human design. I don't think I've ever seen a program that short. And I don't want it to be short where people don't have the chance to embody their human design. I just want people to have the information and then they can start to integrate it. And so you'll have an ability to understand how to integrate it into your life.
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We will help support you on understanding how to give readings, become human design readers, start a really amazing, you know, business doing human design. So all of that will be included into the program. There will be worksheets, some fun quizzes, and it'll just be a great way for you to learn and understand the system through my lens and my experience.
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And a lot of people have been asking me, like, what is your background in human design? My background, which I talk a lot about in, I think, throughout a lot of these episodes, but specifically in the first episode called My Human Design Story. But I've been doing human design for almost three and a half years, and I fell in love with the system.
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It was a full bodied, hell freaking yes for me the second I learned about human design. And for me, I dived right in immediately. I knew I wanted to become a human design reader. I had purchased the definitive book of human design. I had a session, and I told the So the girl who gave me my first reading that I wanted to learn this and she taught me along the way I signed up for a training and then I took another training and then I just started practicing I really dove straight into it was a first a little party trick as I used to always say When I would you know be with friends and out, you know having drinks or whatever wine with girlfriends like oh my god let me get into your human design and then it turned into something a lot greater because it was like one person led to the next and Yeah, it kind of turned itself into this big thing, and I love it.
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I love what I do, and so I have had quite a few years of experience now in this space. Not only have I been learning, and you continue to learn, like there's no one who does human design that just stops learning and knows everything. It's a It's a journey and you learn so many things just throughout your human design experimentation, because it really, they say it takes like seven years to experiment with your human design, but that said, it is something that I continue to learn, but I've also found myself loving to teach and share and naturally I'm a 5'1 so of course that's the kind of role that I naturally am stepping into, but I'm really excited to do a live program because I just want to Build a community.
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I want to get to know all of you. I want it to be fun. I'm not going to price that outrageous. Like I don't want to, I don't even want to judge anyone and say like people have priced this stuff so outrageously it will be for what it's worth. Like it's going to be a lot of time and investment on my part, but I want.
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You guys to be able to afford it. So there will be payment plans and other opportunities for you to You know understand the the content in the best way possible and the most affordable way possible. So that will be Coming here in the next few weeks, but the wait list is open now So get on that wait list if you want to get the early bird pricing Which will be several hundred dollars cheaper than the actual pricing So you definitely don't want to miss out on the early bird pricing.
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So absolutely get on that list and then What you will, what you can know now is that after that live program ends, I will offer my human design training as a self paced course that anyone can take at any time. I've actually been putting that portion of the program together for quite some time now, just here and there, but what I will tell you about that program is that it will be actually a three tiered program.
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So a lot of my listeners don't want to become human design readers, and that's something I've realized, obviously, like, not everyone wants to do human design, but a lot of y'all are really interested in understanding the system enough to either integrate it into And Your coaching business. I know someone who is a chiropractor learning human design.
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I know someone who is a therapist learning human design. I've had astrologers learn from me. I've had other manifestation life coach type of people learn from me. So I know a lot of you have businesses and things that you want to incorporate the knowledge of human design into but you don't need to know like You know, the deepest layers possible for that.
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So the program I'm putting together is a three tiered program. So there's going to be a level one, level two, and then a level three. And so the integration level one will be the integration level where it's going to be all about understanding human design to integrate it into a current business or offering or something else.
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Level two will be basically to become a reader. So you'll learn things like channels and gates, and just maybe some of those deeper layers that you need to become a human design reader. And then level three will be an advanced training. So that's where you'll get deep into the primary health system. All of the deeper layers like the line levels and the variables, including your digestion, your environment, strongest sense, perspective, motivation, all of those things.
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So I am working through that program, but the live reader training will be a fully immersive program into all of these things. So level one, level two, level three. And then afterwards, the self paced course will be broken out. So you can wait for that. If you are in the, if you're in my mentorship right now, you're going to have access to all of these things already, immediately without doing anything for the price that you paid, you know, over a year ago.
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And then if you're in my, if you end up doing the live training with me this summer, you will also get access to all of the level 1, level 2, and level 3 content and all the changes that come along with all of that. So. I'm super excited for all of this to come to fruition, it's been a long time coming and I'm just excited for you guys to have my spin on all of it.
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Okay, that's a lot of updates, so in the description below, there will be a waitlist for my live training. There will be a link to my Kickstarter campaign to donate to my human design app. And that's it. Those are all of the things that we just talked about. I hope that you want to be involved in some way in all of that, but I'll actually, I'll also list below the method as well, because that is the cohort that I am currently moving through, which will also be available again in the fall, so I will have the waitlist if you want to go on an integrated embodiment journey with human design, so if you don't want to learn human design, you're just like, I already know a lot about it, and I just want to like embody it, and and learn about my spirituality, then that's a program for you.
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Okay, let's get into the content of this episode. And so again, this episode is all about spirituality, what is it, how does human design tie into spirituality, and all of that. Let's start with spirituality and what it is. So spirituality is a very broad term and it can mean a lot of different things to a lot of different people, but at its core, it does refer to the sense of connection to something greater than ourselves.
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And so some people look at spirituality as the relationship with a God within their religion. Some people look at spirituality as meaning and purpose in their life. Some people look at it as The way that they feel oneness with the universe, but spirituality is really the search for meaning and purpose in life beyond our physical existence.
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It involves a deepening awareness of our inner selves and a connection to something greater than ourselves. So whether that's universe, nature, higher power, or simply just a sense of oneness with all living beings. And really, spirituality can help us find joy, peace, fulfillment, and it provides us with a sense of purpose and direction, and it can be expressed through a lot of different practices like meditation, prayer, human design, yoga, spending time in nature.
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But ultimately, it's really a personal and individual journey of self discovery and growth. And so, how does spirituality tie into Human design. How it ties in is because human design is a way of connecting with one's inner wisdom and higher self by understanding our unique human design charts. We can gain insight into our strengths, our challenges, our decision making tools, our intuition.
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We can align with our true nature, and that always leads to a greater sense of inner peace, purpose and fulfillment, which again are all a part of spirituality. And so, you know, human design is a tool for self care and self improvement. So, by understanding our energy type and understanding how we can work best with our physical, emotional, and spiritual well being, then we can achieve our goals through human design.
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And so, it ties all the way back to spirituality because that's really what spirituality means. And so, human design is incorporated into your spiritual journey because it is a powerful way to deepen your understanding of yourself. In this world, and so that is why it's so important for us to understand our human designs because it connects us back to ourself and connecting to ourselves is everything that you need to know about spirituality, not everything you need to know, but I would say that is the point of spirituality, you know, both of them provide self discovery alignment with our highest version of ourselves.
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Which is basically that each of us has this divine essence of the person that we want to be or that, you know, is the highest version of us. For example, like, I oftentimes think about the highest version of me and what that girl looks like and what she does. And she's amazing and she has all of this rich life and she's so fulfilled and everything is beautiful and balanced and centered and everything is in beautiful alignment with her relationships, her home, her family, her, her spirituality, right?
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Like again, it's kind of all tied in there. But when we think of our highest self. We use human design to get to the version of our highest self, but we also can use spirituality as a way to get to that. And so we're talking a lot about spirituality and what it is. And we're more so talking about the concept or I guess the philosophy of what spirituality is, but what can someone do to be spiritual?
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How can we become a spiritual beings? And there's two things I want to say here. One, we are spiritual beings having a human experience and we're not human beings having a spiritual experience, okay? So oftentimes we will spend so much of our humanness trying to remember where we come from and that's, that's what I do.
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That's, that's literally my job. That is what I love to talk about. I am very. Well aware of where we come from and how that affects everything else in, you know, our, our humanness, right? I am someone who loves to talk about that But I also have to remind myself and others that we are here again having that human experience we have to come back down to nature and ground ourselves and to, you know, experience pain and heartbreak and grief and some of the things that just come along with being human and It's a part of this process.
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But in terms of really spirituality, though, like ways that we can remember that we're spiritual beings are through different practices. So meditation is probably the most, I would say, useful and amazing practices to get into your spirituality Patreon Understand your soul. I saw a quote recently. This wasn't a quote was actually a video of it was Dwight from the office.
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I don't even know his real name, but he was on some podcast and it was like a tick tock or something that I saw where he was talking about how he witnessed his. You know, the passing of his father and seeing his dad's lifeless body laying there reminded him how much of our bodies are really this vessel because he's like, you know, I saw his I think he said something like I saw his eyebrow hair sticking up and when he looked at that, he's like, you know, that was that was just this vessel that his soul was inside of because that really just looking at the lifeless bodies like that's not even him.
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It didn't even look like him. And so I That's very morbid, of course, but it's also a really beautiful reflection to remember that like we are such soul or souls and we're spirit and we have energy and that's what makes us who we are as people. And so how can we work with our divine self, our divine essence and our soul and how can we connect that back to our body and our mind and all of these things?
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And so, so spirituality is really this beautiful practice of. Understanding our energy, aligning with our higher selves, understanding the connections of how our mind operates, what our body needs, the vessel, right? And then what our soul is desiring. And so meditation is a beautiful practice. We can also use different spiritual tools.
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So whether you like, perhaps it's a pendulum, or perhaps it is your oracle cards. Or perhaps as journaling, we have different tools that we can use to tap into spirit. We can pray, we can talk to God, we can talk to our spirit guides, we can ask for guidance, we can ask for messages. We can ask for signs, angel numbers, right?
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So there's lots of different things that we do to live spiritually. Crystals. Crystals are a way to alchemize energy and to help us be protected in different energy fields and auras. we can also use things like breath work to understand our body and how our breath is connected to our energy and how that moves about.
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Through us, we can understand our mind. We can do things like hypnotherapy and expansion of consciousness. And so there's lots of things that we do to be spiritual. There's a rituals we practice, and I'm just like naming a million rituals, church, you know, like yoga is a very spiritual practice. So all of these things we do to remember that we're spiritual beings.
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And again, I think this kind of ties back to faith because. We talked a lot about this in the last episode of faith and how all that's tied in, but I think it's just this beautiful culmination or Overlap of all these different things that really make us, you know, the people that we are. That's how we grow spiritually and Human design is another tool that you can use to understand your gifts and your spiritualness and I think it's a great tool to understand your body mind and spirit because With our body, we understand, okay, where is my intuition which comes through our body, right?
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How can you feel the energy in your body, right? And then we talk about the mind and how the mind is this thing that sort of conditions us and sometimes controls us and leads us to misalignment or an not self theme. And then we talk about our spirit and our spirit is really the sort of consciousness that we have, the awareness that we have, and all of these are broken down into those design crystals, which we talked about last episode, but it's just really cool to see kind of the intersection of all of these different things.
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And so, When I talk about human design, I am talking about spirituality. It's a spiritual tool. I obviously am so into breaking human design down into practical everyday tools and spirituality. I'm someone who loves to demystify things. And I will say, I love the. I love mystical things, so it's not demystifying because I don't like demystical things, it's because I want more people to have access to this sort of work.
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I recently had a conversation with Zander, and he was saying something to me like, more people would be spiritual if the language was more simple or something like that. He's like, because sometimes you say things like, Inner child or deconditioning or some of these words, and he's like, you know, you're just talking about being a good or bad person, or you're talking about very, you're talking about very simple concepts, but giving them different language that makes people feel like it's not accessible because Transcribed I don't know, there's not very many males, I'm sure, that are like, oh, I want to do inner child work, or I want to tap into my feminine.
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That really is kind of language that isn't super accessible, because it's like, what the fuck does that even mean? I know what that means, because I'm a spiritual person, and I'm into this work. I know that inner child work just means, you know, basically just sitting with the desires of what your younger self needed, and You know, helping heal that by remembering what that child needed and sending beautiful thoughts back to that version of yourself, right?
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That's inner child work. That's not that crazy, really. It's just like, I'm sure all of us, without even putting that language to it, can think of a moment when we were a kid where perhaps something really hard happened or embarrassing. Or something else and you can think of that moment. You can think of, okay, what did that child need?
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That's in her child work or shadow work, right? Digging up our shadows, thinking of ways that were, you know, not our highest selves. We can think about moments where we did something that was perhaps shameful or perhaps that we hold a lot of guilt over that we judge ourselves for or other people have judged us for.
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And so there's different shadows that we have that we have to like confront. To, you know, understand why we do certain things, and so that's shadow work, right? But then we call it shadow work, and people are like, what the fuck is shadow work? Or, we talk about, you know, I mentioned deconditioning, and it's like, what does that mean?
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Which is basically just an unbecoming, right? Becoming the best version of you by You know, kind of removing the things that aren't you so that's really what we're doing. But then we talk about okay Centers and all of these different words that just get confusing to people but i'm sure my audience isn't that confused by these concepts because they are a lot of what I talk about in this the spiritual world does talk about and I think The thing is that all of these are going to become more everyday words that we That we share.
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Oh, and i'm remembering why we were talking about this because this is a life update So I started hypnotherapy last week And I'm so excited about it because I think I've shared before that I don't love to fly. I don't have, I would say a full blown fear of flying. I just don't enjoy it, but I know it is a fear, because I will have dreams where I think about bad things happening to planes, and I had three experiences related to planes that happened all within a year in 2019, and I just, and I never had problems flying in my entire life, and then through these experiences, I've developed just this sort of like fear of it.
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I still fly, I have to travel all the time, And so I moved through it and I pushed through it, but it is becoming a little bit hard for me because what I've been doing is basically when I know that I have a flight coming up, it's like what I think about constantly and I couldn't sleep two days a couple weeks ago because of just the thought of having a flight coming up soon and just like things like that where I'm like, this is getting in the way of me living my best life and I really desire to travel the world and I want to do, I've been to Europe, I flew to Europe by myself and like I want to do that again.
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And. And I want to be able to see the world and meet people and host retreats and so many things, so I'm like, I have to nip this in the bud and all of the things that I've been doing, which is pretty much just exposure therapy, continuing to fly, I don't take medication, I don't drink, I don't do anything other than I overly control what I'm doing days leading up to a flight.
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And that's not cool either. So I'm trying to Get rid of this fear and I started hypnotherapy and I had one session already. I'm feeling a lot lighter about the thought of, you know, flying on a plane and I realized it's more of a control thing and something that is making me feel really defeated in life and stuck in life.
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And so I'm excited to move through it. But why I'm bringing this up is because hypnotherapy is another thing that people are like, Oh my gosh, that sounds like some crazy ass shit where people are like hypnotizing me. We imagine all of these Like movies or shows where we saw hypnotist like crystal balls, you know, like just doing You know, weird things, the big blue eye shadow and, you know, you, you can, you know, picture that what that person perhaps looks like, which is totally fine, but I think people put a weird lens on it when hypnotherapy is a, a practice that all, not all therapists, but quite a bit of like licensed therapists who have their doctorate, who perform therapy and hypnotherapy.
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And it's just a way of getting people into a sort of like a trance. It's like, there's different waves. I have a whole podcast episode dedicated to this topic, so look forward to that coming up soon. But, again, it's just another way that a lot of times spiritual language can feel inaccessible. So I'm very passionate about demystifying, breaking things down, helping it be more understanding because I think that we all deserve to live our best lives, and I think being a spiritual person is one of the, I would say, a cheat code to getting there, really.
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It's a cheat code in life, and I love it. So, that is what spirituality is. Spirituality is a connection to oneself through you living your highest life, and there's lots of different practices in which you can get there, whether it's your routine, a morning ritual, your church that you're a part of, your faith, your journaling, your meditation, your breathwork, your cards, your pendulums.
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There's so many ways that we tap into ourselves. And that is how we become a spiritual beings. And that is how we remember that we are greater than what is on this physical plane. But the other thing, again, that I want to remind you that it's so important to be a human at the end of the day, it's so important to be on this earth and to experience earthy things.
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But it can be a really beautiful reminder that when earth or humanness gets a little bit hard, that we also are able to remind ourselves that we are a part of something greater than this, not to let things Maybe get in our way, right? So that concludes this episode on what is spirituality, how human design ties into that, and some updates on what's happening BTS at The Design Review.
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I'd love to hear your guys feedback on this episode, so If you have any feedback, definitely shoot it on over via DMs or via email, but I can't wait to hear what you guys think. And I love you so much. Have a beautiful rest of your week and happy June.