It's time to get solar powered. This is the solar powered podcast. I am Ryan Hall from Royal Hearts Coaching. Royalheartscoaching.com. Life and relationship coaching for kings. On today's podcast, I wanted to speak a little bit about just well, first of all, I wanted to address why I've been gone for a couple weeks.
I've been away from this microphone for for a little while, and that's not something I'm really I'm really looking to do because I want to keep this, I want to keep this podcast active. I want to keep this podcast, going and, you know, just looking to have some, just looking to have some fun with it. But I have found myself a little bit blocked. I found myself a little bit blocked a little bit. Yeah, a little bit blocked, a little bit, I guess, stuck lately.
I guess my version of writer's block when it comes to, when it comes to this particular podcast. But I've also wanted to I've also wanted to let, to let other voices speak out a little bit because I've been feeling like this, I've been feeling like that's what's been needed as of late. Just other voices, other other, yeah, just other voices, other, other people speaking their minds and speaking their grievances with the world.
I never really thought that I was that qualified to be able to speak my opinion and my feelings on these, on these things. But, you know, just long story short, if I wasn't, if I wasn't a little bit antsy, a little bit worried about what is still going on in the world when it comes to this disease and the fact that the crowds were still kind of creeping me out a little bit, then I would have been right there with them. I really would have.
I would have been right there, right there with them with the, with the protest. But that's not what this podcast is about. Oh, believe me. I have my feelings about this, but that's not what this podcast is about. A lot of things have been in the news as of late about the South's history with with racial inequality, with racial injustice, and with, and with a certain flag a certain flag that I've never I've never liked. I couldn't always just I can't stand that damn flag.
But there have been a lot of people who have really gotten out of shape about, about coming after confederate monuments, coming after the confederate flag. And let me tell you, the other day when NASCAR, of all organizations, when NASCAR, put a stop to the to the confederate flag being flown in their, in their events. That got a lot of people been out of shape, let me tell you.
But I'm looking at some of the reaction from this, and I feel like it's a lot of people who are just they're scared of not being heard. They're scared of not being heard, of not being seen, of not being recognized as whole and complete and legitimate. And I get it. I really do. I get it. I understand it. And I respect it. But here's the thing that I think it points to. And I'm gonna speak personally here on this, but I'm using this conversation as context.
I believe a lot of these people who are getting bent out of shape by, by what's been going on with these, with these statues and with the flag, I believe it's people who are really afraid to look at their own shadows. And I believe these these statues getting removed, these flags getting removed, I believe it's just something to do with not being willing to poke at your shadows. Now, what in the world do I mean by poke at your shadows? Everybody has shadows. We all have shadows.
We all have we all have our brightest self, our best self, our highest self. We all have a light that can blind the world. I've been saying that for years. But we also have shadows. We have these areas where we don't like to look, where we don't like to poke, where we don't like to really acknowledge. I honestly believe it's a pride thing with a lot of people.
I believe it's a, I believe it's a pride thing with a lot of people that people, that people are that people, just they they don't wanna look at their own, they don't wanna look at their own shadows because they're too proud. And I'm not speaking out of school here. I've been really hesitant to take a look at some of these things myself, but, a line of scripture that really, that really comes to mind here.
It's, Proverbs 16 through 18. Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall. We're too proud. We are just way too proud to take a look at our own shadows, at the things that, you know, at the things that trigger us, at the things that upset us, that kinda twist us around. I share all this because I've been I've been really doing some deep dive shadow work as of late.
Looking at my own shadows, looking at my own, looking at my own inner child, and how wounded and how fearful and how upset my inner child has been and really still is. Like, just today, I had one of those therapy sessions sessions that that will leave a mark, let me tell you. This therapy session will absolutely leave a mark in a good way, but it will leave a mark on me for the rest of my life. And what we were looking at was really it's one of my it's like it's one of my deepest, darkest fears.
This fear is is it is as ingrained inside of me, than, than anything. And that fear is that if I ever let my that if I ever let my true confidence shine, that if I ever let my true confidence shine, then I would have, like, offended my mother somehow. See, my mom always, she always saw confidence, at least how I perceived it.
But she has always associated she always associated confidence with being pompous, being arrogant, being cocky, calling me a, quote, hall man, which I could not hear as I couldn't not hear as don't be cocky, don't be arrogant, don't be, you know, everything that she hates.
So I was taking a look at some of that today, And the practice, I'm not gonna duplicate it here, but the what the practice was during my therapy session involved me channeling my inner 12 year old and having a direct conversation with him. Speaking, you know, bluntly and directly to him, but lovingly. And it, it I mean, it was one of the most powerful experiences I've had in a long, long time. It really was. It was one of the most powerful experiences I've had in a long, long time.
I'm sitting here recording this podcast today with with just a really with a light heart. Also just received a really surprising phone call, but that's maybe another podcast for another day. The work hurt. The work really sucked. It was painful. It was it was It was painful. It was really it was awkward. I think I cried at least a gallon of tears. It was incredibly powerful.
The more that I think of the more that I think of what's going on in the world right now, of what's, of what's affecting and effecting the world right now, The more that I think that it's, that this is a that this is a world, a country, a population who was just simply scared to look and acknowledge our shadows. We're really scared to acknowledge our shadows and it's showing up in a lot of fear, a lot of anger, a lot of just really a lot of pissed off people.
And I'm not and I'm not please believe me when I say this. Every one of these protests, every one of these, you know, every one of these upset people, they're completely, completely justified. They are completely justified. I will never know what it's like to be discriminated against because of the color of my skin. I'll never know it. But I also know that I also know what a person looks like when they're in deep, deep ontological pain. I know what somebody in pain looks like.
Somebody feels like they're just not being heard or acknowledged or really honored. I totally get it. Oh, don't get me wrong. That damn flight should have been gone long ago. But I understand why people are getting bit out of shape about this. At least on an altruistic level.
I mean, I you know, I know there's still some racist assholes out there, but I wanna believe that the people who are getting bit out of shape about this are doing are, you know, are doing this for, you know, reasons other than they hate black people. I really wanna believe that. Like, I really wanna believe that. It's, you know, it's a scary time to be alive right now. It's a scary time to be alive right now.
The you know, this coronavirus has has, you know, we're seeing spikes in numbers with things opening back up. We are seeing spikes in, in positive cases. And, we're we're seeing spikes in people dying from this disease. We're seeing a lot of angry and upset people in the world. I and and I get it. It's completely justified, but I really hope And the entire point of this conversation, of this entire podcast has been this. I really hope that we all just take a moment.
It didn't have to be a long moment, but just take a moment and really look inside our truth and really, you know, really take a look at our shadows. Poke our shadows if we have to, But let's really take a look at our shadows and remember that all light has shadows. All light. I don't care if you're, I mean if you, you know, if you, have seen the video of the moon landings you see the shadow of the lunar lander landing on the, landing on the surface of the moon. We all have shadows. We really do.
We all have shadows. But what do our shadows tell us? And what can we heal? What of those shadows can we heal? What can we heal? And more importantly, what can we learn from our shadows? Think I'm gonna leave you all with this. Thank you all so much for listening to us this week, here in the solar powered podcast. I'm not gonna go into great detail, but the next few episodes are gonna be devoted to something really cool that I'm working on.
It just one of the more exciting collaborations I have ever done. I'm really excited to share it with you all. This is gonna be, you know, this is gonna be a really beautiful experience for me. Hell, it's already been a beautiful experience for me working on what I'm working on. But my guest on my next episode is putting together something so cool, and I absolutely cannot wait cannot wait to share it with y'all. But that's next time here in the solar powered podcast.
Oh, and the, you know, the next few episodes are gonna be devoted to this. I'm just throwing that out there. Thank you all so much for listening to the solar powered podcast. For more information about coaching and about royal hearts coaching, Visit royal hearts coaching dot com. You can shoot me an email at [email protected], or you can follow me on the social media platform of your choice. And I recommend multiple social media platforms because, you know, why not?
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Until we meet again, this is Ryan Hall saying thank you so much for listening. So long for now. I love you all and go get solar powered. And wash your hands. Come on. What's the matter with y'all?