Today we're going to talk about Energy Vampires, for sure, because I was reflecting at the end of last episode.
episode about people I thought were my friends, like true and loyal friends for years, like years of my life. And I considered myself a smart person.
That was a very like humbling experience. Because yeah, like I realized that I had let these people say to me all of the things that I needed to hear them say in order for me to stay stuck in relationships where their actual actions didn't at all match the words they told me.
I mean, and there were a lot of them. So, yeah, I mean, and why the reason we stay in them is because that actually causes confusion. It causes cognitive dissonance.
dissonance, which will keep your shit stuck for a long time, sometimes lifetimes. Yeah, I had to, you know, I mean, that's the thing about when you're when you're stuck in those relationships where your friends,
frenemies, whatever, are like feeding off of your dysfunction, feeding, feeding off of your confusion, feeding off of your frustration and hurt. and they're constantly keeping you in a dysregulated state.
- Right. - So they can like siphon that dramatic, chaotic energy. Yeah, you just gotta walk away from that. - It's so hard though because we believe that we can change people.
Even, you know, first of all, we don't notice it 'cause we believe the words and we're not looking at the actions, right? - Right. - And then when we do recognize it, that we have the shame, the toxic shame, we shame ourselves for having fallen for it 'cause I believed I was an intelligent person and all this stuff,
I should've seen it. - Yes. - And that keeps us stuck for a while 'cause we're like, "Well, I don't want anyone else to know "that I know that this was bullshit "and I would've been buying a--" - Yeah, what does this say about my reputation?
- Oh, yeah. - Like, how are people gonna view me and all that garbage? Like, yeah. - Which keeps you stuck. - Okay. - It keeps you stuck. - It-- yeah you just got to release that we just have to be like yeah that happened let it go yeah we did yes this is gonna it's not maybe that should be our theme song but we can't because no I can't afford it but seriously and you said dysregulated and we haven't talked we've
talked a little bit about the nervous system and we talked about somatic therapies and somatic exercises in one of the previous episodes, but do you wanna talk a little bit more about the nervous system and what dysregulated means?
- Yeah, so I think the easiest way that I have heard it described is like, you have your sympathetic and your parasympathetic nervous system. So it's like the way that your nervous system system is sort of created.
And so when your sympathetic nervous system is activated, you go into like fight, flight, breeze, or fawn response. You do one of those four things.
I've also heard fuck instead of fawn. So that tracks. That distracts me. Anyway. Anyway, so you go into that that nervous system response.
It's like you're It almost is like your your survival instinct kicks in and you that's your lizard brain It's it's trying to survive You cannot connect with your higher self from that space.
You cannot access your internal guidance You're just sort of like reacting, you know, like with an animal response and That's not definitely that's not the place from which we would like to operate right so Part of what I've been working on is Consciously connecting to my parasympathetic nervous system through my breath through activation of my vagus nerve.
So through like singing You know breathing exercises trying trying to get to that part of me that has my nervous system in a,
in a relaxed, competent, calm state. So if I can, if I can access my parasympathetic nervous system in the ways using the tools that I mentioned,
and I can get to that space, that's where like we, we like I talked about in a previous episode I'm able to access peace I'm able to access gratitude I'm able to show up in a mindful way as opposed to just reacting from a place of fight flight freezer fuck yeah and I learned I'm learning too that they're science or new science to understand the responses they used to think it was only a fight or flight flight.
And then they came, then they learned like, I don't know, 10 years ago or so about freeze and fawn is newer and they're learning about other ways. So really the thing I love about language and science and concepts in general is that it's so funny 'cause when we learn one,
we think, oh gosh, this is like brand new. Ain't no new under the sun. - No. - This has been the way, we're just giving work. - We're like the Czechs mix of spiritual pocket. podcasts. You just, they got a little bit of everything.
Just all mixed in together. - That's it. And so-- - And we didn't make none of it up. - No. And, but you know, you could get excited about something that you can name. I mean, part of how you get out of shame is being able to name what you're experiencing without attaching your own identity to it without making it about you.
It can be just about what's happened. - Yeah. And that's how you can move through it. The breathing thing I thought you mentioned is great and I wanted to offer really quickly,
if you don't know what that means, 'cause you're like, "Bitch, I breathe all the time." (laughing) I know for me, part of my response to stress and anxiety is I hold my breath. I don't even realize it. Then I breathe shallow or I'm holding my breath.
And one of the ways you can counteract that and start to train yourself to be more conscious about your breath. breathing is to breathe on account of five. You can even do what's called box breathing where you breathe like five in hold for five five out hold for hold out for five right and that's called box breathing because it's 5555 and just just stick that into your back pocket for future reference if you're ever
like in the car in traffic and freaking out and you need yeah and these are these are these are tools in our toolbox so again like we don't gate keep. There's nothing new under the sun We're just gonna like completely park everything out on front street right feel free to browse.
You know what I mean? So yeah use these yeah, like use these as you feel they are helpful to you I feel like The experience of this podcast is probably gonna be like just kind of letting it wash over you and see what catches in your curiosity filter,
you know, like whatever kind of lights up for you about what we're talking about, that to me is your own intuition telling you what to go investigate. We're just giving you like a smorgasbord of things to be curious about,
just so that you know, hey, you've got all these other rooms in your mansion, you can go look at, you know? Don't forget about it, but the energy vampires keep us stuck because we are in that dysregulated state.
whether, like you said, it's fight, flight, freeze or fuck or fawn. (laughing) No comment on which one I usually go to. (laughing) Anyway,
I am not in a dysregulated state right now, so I ain't got nit and gomen now. That's how it is, dry phone, for sure. Let's keep it that way, I like my piece. But your piece is gonna cost you.
you know? That's the other thing I wanna say about this is that you're in these, we all are in some way, shape, or form in these toxic dynamics. And our society is built on this kind of a toxic dynamic,
power dynamic being out of sync, out of equilibrium. And so in order to get to your piece, you have to be willing to pay the price. And the price is...
to make the hard decision to move away from what feels comfortable, but you know ultimately is destructive for you. And that's gonna be just, that's not gonna be comfortable.
It's gonna be uncomfortable. - It's radical self -love that you're giving yourself to protect your piece. It's the permission you give yourself to protect your piece.
- That's it. That's it. - Some people haven't even ever. ever found their peace first. - Yeah, I didn't. - Yeah, true. - I hadn't found my peace until a few years ago. I've just been in this hyper -vigilant mode my whole life trying to tend to everyone else's needs.
- I'm doing a damn good job of it, man, I mentioned. - You were conditioned to do that, girl. - I was such a good little. - Yeah, you were such a good soldier. - Don't ask nobody, I actually was in a relationship with what they think, but.
- From my perspective, I did a really good job. - Yes, girl. - But, you know, having to-- choose myself was one of the hardest things I've ever done, because as I got out of a relationship, there was this void,
you know the void, that was there. And I was like, oh, shit, now gotta be with me. - Yeah. - Who is that? - Girl, that was one of the hardest,
the hardest things for me to overcome. And I don't even want to say, overcome because that sounds like I was engaged in some battle or whatever but being Alone with myself.
Yes. That was such a journey. Yeah, that was that took so much courage and surrender Yes, and in presence and of mind, you know, just to Just to be like I'm gonna I'm gonna white knuckle this.
Yeah, and that's all that's all I could do in the beginning Yeah, what would you know? It's sort of like what they talk about when you start meditating where it's like, you know start with 30 seconds start with a minute like start with whatever you can accomplish without Totally getting just freaking yourself out.
Yeah, and then kind of just build from there. Yeah And I've always thought that that was really beautiful, but yeah, like I don't know. Yeah,
the the piece is gonna cost you, it's gonna cost you some toxic people in your life who do a really good job of pretending like they're not toxic. And I mean, a damn good job.
I mean, some of these motherfuckers out here with their language, they co -opted from therapy and from the holistic world. I mean, they really sound - - I know, they sound like sociopath, and I'm not trying to diagnose anybody.
I'm just saying like, from what I've read, like you can't just go around, and, gaslighting people. - No, because you're projecting out your own shame. - And be a crazy narcissist and be like,
everybody needs to just fall in line with this completely made up shit that I'm churning out. - Right, and I'm gonna make it your problem. - And I'm gonna call you crazy if you don't get on board.
- There's a cost either way. When you're dealing with someone who's in narcissistic behavior, let's just call it that, the other term I love is an extreme take. taker. So someone who's an extreme taker is typically partnered with someone who's an extreme giver.
And if you're listening to this, you're probably an extreme giver unless you're an extreme taker that I used to date. Y 'all,
you know, there's some benefits to having your own podcast, okay? You get to be a little bit petty. It's just for fun though. I love everybody. everybody. Because honestly,
the mindset that a narcissist or an extreme taker is in is not a happy mindset. It's a mindset that is totally driven off of complete self -rejection. - Yeah, yeah. - 'Cause they cannot spend a single solitary moment alone to look inside their mansion.
They're not even in the mansion. They're outside on the street in front of the mansion of their own internal world because they're so terrified of all the monsters that they've shoved in there. And that's deeply, deeply sad. and a lot of times when you're an extreme giver or a codependent you see that with absolute clarity and you want to save them because you think it's possible it's not possible unfortunately yeah you
can only save yourself and that's what I was talking about like I could not be alone with myself for a single fucking second ever I would like I did so many crazy things not to be alone I put myself in so many unsafe situations situations not to be alone.
I did so many shitty things I didn't want to do not to be alone. And being around people I didn't want to be around just because they were people. Like I could not enjoy my own company.
I couldn't stand my own company. - But look where you are now. - And that's why I drank. And so it's like you have to really be, you know,
like we need to spend time with ourselves. We deserve to spend time with ourselves. - In your own energy. - In our own energy. - Yes. - That is such a gift. - And learn how to do it 'cause you don't know how to, I didn't know how to do it.
I drank because I couldn't do it. - So don't blame yourself. - No. - For not knowing how to be alone. You have to learn it. It's a skill. - And this goes, 'cause it goes back to having like people to talk to or things to listen to.
or anchors to be like, I'm not crazy, this is just the energy we're in now. I'm having an awakening experience. I'm not insane, I am just questioning all of these societal constructs because they don't feel real to me 'cause they're not fucking real.
- 'Cause we made everything up, y 'all. - I just don't understand, I don't understand how people with seriousness act like humanity has anything to do with it. business being like the big boss on earth.
First of all, birds are so much cuter than humans. Do you know what I mean? And like the variety, hello. - And like dogs, how fucking great are they? - Amazing. - Loyal and trustworthy.
- And the binobo, the binobos got it down. - Yes, I mean like what? - That's the first part of society. - We're not trying to like, yeah, like we're not, we shouldn't be in charge of anything. - Why did we think we were in charge? - This was a terrible idea.
- We shouldn't, yeah. - You know what I mean? And here's why, because we got conditioned that we were somehow not of the earth. Like, it's for us, but we're not of it. Y 'all, we came out of this bitch.
Ain't nothing ever been created. - Yeah, and we're going back, and we're going back. - It's all just some big washing machine. - Yeah. - You just, right now you're a human being with the conditions that you have. Enjoy it. It's fleeting. It's always moving and changing.
Nothing that your experience is ever going to be. like this again. And that's good and bad. And so just cherish it. There's sorrow and joy in every moment. And we can extract that.
- Yeah, 'cause don't they say like matter can change when it's observed or changes with physics? - Yes, so like, what are we observing? - What are we observing? This goes back to what you were saying about manifesting what we want,
the world we want to live in, whatever. - Whatever. - Yeah, like how we want to feel. That to me is the energy we're putting out. How do I want to feel? - What kind of world do you wanna build with your energy?
- And focus your energy there. Like it automatically happens. You just, you bring in that energy and you work with that energy and you're like, how can I best embody and express this energy that I'm calling in to me?
It's like my spark, you know, like what? what can I do with it? Like that's your gift, that's what you're here to do. - Yes. - Yeah, you don't have to like cut that shit off. - Or ask anyone permission.
- Right, you just get in there and just see how you do. - I love that. And I think one thing I wanted to come back to too is because we're talking a lot in higher terms like energy and processing emotions and things like that.
I want to, I want to be. clear in learning to be by yourself. I want to be clear what that looks like is probably a lot of alone time, probably a lot of journaling, probably definitely a lot of crying.
Crying is an emotional and physical release. It moves the energy through your body and it releases it. - It's one of those things, like we're here meant we do that. - That's what we do. - We came here doing that.
- It's okay to do and you need to do it. And, And feeling that is gonna be messy y 'all. And we haven't in our society been given permission as women especially to be hysterical and be angry and to rage.
And that's why it's so precious whenever we get the opportunity to go on retreats or something and really be able to have the full expression of our emotions. - And spend time with each other in that container.
Spend time with each other in that space and be-- like, I honor you because I see me and you, and I know that you see you and me, and we have this bond as women.
Reconnecting to that is so powerful. - We used to have each other in villages. - So we both have gone to retreats in Mexico and that's what white girls do,
you know? So we did it. - Yeah. South because the airfare is great. It's right there. Yeah, it's right there. Yeah, it's right there. Anyway, my and we both have transformative experiences,
right? With these indigenous, indigenous rituals and practices. And don't be freaked out about rituals. It just it's like a it's just a practice. There's just a lot of things like with language,
as we talked about in the previous episode, we just need to investigate and interrogate if we have an immediate gut reaction to something. that's negative, just look at it and go like, "Oh, I wonder if there's shame here." You know,
that's how you get unstuck is you go like, "Get curious about your own reactions." - Yes, and like, how can I be really present and tuned into this moment, recognize it as an experience so that I don't attach a label to it, I don't attach meaning to it,
and just have this experience. In short circuit, the whole fucking cycle, we know how that goes. - We know how that ends, we got the T -shirt. - T -shirt, right, so like, we can...
throw a wrench into that, so to speak, and just be like, yeah, no, I'm gonna fucking take this shortcut right now. I'm gonna get really present in my body, and I am going to look at,
you know, how I'm feeling, what's going on in my body, and if I can allow it. That's one of the techniques that Tara Brock teaches.
She's another meditation teacher who's also a psychologist. Can you put a pen in Taylor Brock, Tara Brock? Yeah. Hey, do you do you need me?
Do you need me because I'm recording a podcast? I just answered because I thought something was wrong. So I'm going to hang up now. OK. All right. Love you. Who was that? I was Ainsley. Oh, she was FaceTime of me.
And I like this is how my OK, we can pick back up now. Well, you know what? You don't even have to cut any of that out. My kid called me. me and she's a grown girl. So, you know,
I was like, oh, I'll have to hit her back. But she facetimed me, which she never does. So here, let me walk you through my mental process here. Well, I'm not gonna answer the phone right now because I'm recording a podcast,
obviously. I go to set my phone face down on the notebook and then I think to myself, what if she's in a car accident and she's reaching out to me because...
because she needs to hear my voice as she transitions to the next world and I just fucking, you know, didn't even answer the phone like an asshole. And that's exactly like,
you see how you go from like zero to one million in the snap of a finger. And then I'm like, Oh, hold on pause. Now I need to take this call and I answered the phone and she's like,
what is that? You know, like, she's just on a girl's trip letting me know she got where she was going, you know, like a good kid or whatever. But of course my mind went to tragic auto accident with fatalities and my kid is gasping her last breaths into my phone.
- And that experience is in your body now. - Yes, what the fuck, you know what I mean? Like, that is some shit we should all be talking about. - Yes, yes. - Yes, because in that...
what we're talking about really is how immediate that reaction is and how if you don't have any awareness of it, you can invest and attach to it and then it can be a much more explosive.
- I spun myself up, I spun myself up, you know? And I always think about these things in retrospect where I'm like, oh, you know, would I blame myself if that had been the case? And I'm like,
and I really think, and I could be wrong, I've never had the... the experience, but when I kind of role play into it, I'm just like, no, I don't think I would, 'cause there wasn't any,
you know, I was engaged in something, there wasn't any malice, there wasn't any, you know what I'm saying, like would I blame myself for that? No, like I don't think I would. - Right,
right, no, we're not supposed to, that's the point, we're just observing the figure. - And then that makes, it's an unfolding. - Yeah, and it makes, makes me able to do things like, okay, I'm not, play the tape to the end.
What's the worst thing that could happen? Okay, well, that's not even probably gonna happen. It's not that bad. So then it makes me reevaluate that risk and be like,
yeah, I'm gonna honor this time and space that we're spending with each other, - Yeah. - creating, by not paying. up my phone and having my crazy mind override it with like your kids probably did.
- Well, but let's use that because I love it. It's so relatable. Oh my gosh, my sister has this happen all the time. She's a fourth grade school teacher and she was a middle school teacher in the last,
in previous years and my, her oldest daughter, my niece only FaceTimes does not text for some reason. I don't know what the heck that is about. It's just, this new generation. These kids nowadays don't even text.
And she'll FaceTimer all day, knowing she's a school teacher teaching. And Abrea, of course, my sister's like, I guess I gotta answer 'cause she might be dead. Same thing. - Right. And it's just sparking your adrenaline. - Yeah,
and we're taught that. - Yes. - Like, I don't think they think that when they're called, you know what I'm saying? Like, it's nothing but what we've been conditioned to. believe yeah,
somehow And then it's like how fuck it this is what keeps happening to me because I'm like oh this is a conditioning You know this is conditioning and then I'm like my very next thought usually is like that's so fucking gross It is like what an attack on my autonomy.
Yep. You know what I mean? Yeah, like That's fucking disgusting. It is and and it's subtle you guys so if you're listening to this and you're like I don't don't get it or like,
I'm not sure. I understand why she wouldn't have answered because like, yeah, you're right, it could have been. - Right. - That's why Izzy. Just know that it's subtle. Like this journey, you're gonna get to the same circumstance over and over again,
it's cyclical. And every time you're gonna have slightly different perspective on it, you're gonna get a little bit of a different view on what's going on in your body. how you reacted to it, how you might want to react differently in the future.
That's where we come down to boundaries and energy vampires, too, when I talk about energy vampires not transitioning straight from kids to energy vampires, because I'm not drawing a correlation there.
Right. Right. I mean, I don't know about your kids, but I think, you know, kids in general are just, you know, you got to give them what you got to give them. But I'm talking about friends, workplaces.
workplaces, acquaintances, acquaintances who make demands on your time. Who do things like that? We'll just call you out of the blue when they know you don't-- - Who show up.
- Yeah, who just show up without announcing themselves. And you maybe even have said like a couple times, you're like, oh, I hate unannounced company and they just keep doing it. Like, yeah. - That's an attack on your energy 'cause they wanna get fed off of your adrenaline.
and your frustration. I know that sounds crazy, but that's literally what's happening. - And in a lot of cases, 'cause just to reiterate, we're not judging anyone, in a lot of cases,
people won't realize that that's what they're doing. - For real? - People are not consciously like, oh, I think I'm gonna go siphon off some of Maddie's energy.
- Mm -hmm. - Nobody's like thinking of it that way. They just have a need that you have filled in them before and they are looking for that hit of serotonin or dopamine or whatever chemical reaction.
They need to feel good right then and they're gonna seek that out. And so like, we don't have to spend a lot of time trying to figure out the deeper root cause. It's just like,
I just wanna hit a view and I know how to. get it So I'm just gonna take it until you cut them off and then like I said, I mean it doesn't have to be some big long drawn out right Deconstruction process it could just be like I mean it may be maybe it needs to be but like it also could just be like Oh,
this person is not this is not a healthy attachment Mm -hmm, and I do not any more intend to give this person access to my energy But it's both right so it's like a deep and and long lasting deconstruction process,
but it's also a quick action that you can make to protect your piece in the moment by putting up a boundary. And what boundaries are, and I think we don't talk about this enough in our society, and I think we will in coming years,
but we're on a cutting edge, yeah. I'll talk about boundaries out here. Boundaries, I think people think are selfish because you're saying you're trying, people I think incorrectly believe boundaries are about dictating other people's behavior.
and boundaries are not about that. Boundaries are about saying this is what I'm available for and this is what I'm not available for. - This is an example of like not a boundary that I think people would think has like boundary vibes.
A boundary is not. I expect you to answer the phone when I call you. Like you, you, you need,
I'm setting this up. boundary. You need to pick up the phone when I call you. You don't dictate other people's boundaries. You only get to speak to your own boundaries. That's the difference.
- One is a demand, the other one is a boundary. - Right. - And you, like I'm not available to you in this, in this environment, like whatever it is. You know, like so you're on the phone and you're having a conversation and someone starts to raise their hand.
voice to you and get like aggressive and you say, "Hey, I need you to back off. Like, I can't deal with your tone of voice or whatever. Like, can you back it down?" And they then openly scream at you.
You know, you don't get to dictate what I do. No, you're right. You don't. But you do get to dictate your engagement and that is the point at which you disengage. Right. you ask them to make you Feel more comfortable in the in the situation.
They Did the polar opposite of that right and so your boundary gets to be and I'm done here Yeah, like I'm not gonna engage you in this. I'm not I'm not trying to affect your behavior whatsoever You you do you this is the key But I am not going to be available for this and the way that you can do that is you just work on your own internal emotional regulation so that you don't need to be in that relationship
with that give and take and that dynamic that spikes your adrenaline and sends you spinning because that's a familiar, and these are familiar states of being for us. - When chaos is your comfort zone,
that is where you always go. That is where you go because you're comfortable there. You know how that works. - You know how to navigate it. - Right. - But you really don't and your body's actually - Yeah.
like getting totally thrashed chemically. - Right, yeah. - And you're gonna go into burnout. - Yeah, exactly. Yeah, it's not a place you can live. - No. - But it's a place you keep feeling drawn back to, like we keep wanting to go back to what we know.
- We spike our journal. - Yeah, exactly. - Yeah, to stay in that. - And then, I mean, and that is why some of us like, you know, do that on purpose. - Yep.
- But they, if there isn't drama, they cannot operate comfortably, so they will create drama because they don't know how to operate without that.
- Which is really sad, and I mean, I think about that a lot whenever, because I'm a former extreme giver, and like very recently, farmer girl.
- Yes, girl. - I'm a few weeks drive here. here. - I remember. - Do you remember? - I remember. - She remembers, okay. - I remember it like it was yesterday. - Oh, it feels like it was yesterday, 'cause it almost was.
And in the process of being an extreme giver, like, you know, obviously you have your own narratives, like, well, I wanna help people, and I understand that they're dealing with their own demons, and you wanna try to like-- - And I believe in abundance.
- I believe in abundance, I believe people can change and all that stuff, and that's all great. And I'm-- And I mean, try it. - Yeah. - Sure. But the danger comes in kind of falling asleep to the fact that you're in this unequal dynamic and then just letting yourself get stuck.
- Yeah. - And so really, we're not saying don't - - You stop flowing. You stop flowing. - Do life, like be in relationship with whoever you wanna be in relationship with,
whoever you're drawn to, do it, have fun, and do it to the extreme. And then pay attention to how it feels in your body. Pay attention to how they behave versus what they say and make sure especially if that shit is not in alignment because that is a sign to walk away because those people,
you know, after you've given them the heads up, hey, this is not okay for me. If they turn that into like, they think you're attacking them. This is another thing with narcissists or extreme takers.
Whenever you point out their behavior or ask them to be accountable for it, they turn it into, it's this thing called DARVO, which is like deny, accuse, reverse victim, and oppressor or whatever.
You can look it up, it's an acronym, D -A -R -V -O. And these are good concepts too, to keep in your back pocket when you're dealing with people who are in that extreme taker energy. Because you'll notice the pattern of when you say,
"Actually, this didn't feel right." good for me, and they get really defensive, and they up the ante. And the whole point of that is to trigger your dysregulation so that you will what?
Go right back into sleep mode, trance mode, and you'll just stay where you're at. - Yeah. - And the best advice we can give you is to work on your cutoff game,
and your cutoff game can only be good if you really love yourself, and you can only really love yourself. if you've gone inside and explored your internal world and held yourself with compassion and love,
reparented those parts of yourself that were fractured, tear down all of those programs and conditions that the conditioning that was put into you by caregivers and society and religion so that you can see the full breadth of who you are and know that that's good that that's okay and then you you can be more present,
then you can flow and you can play these games with these people and see if they're ready to change. And if they're not ready to change, you peace out and you say all the love to you, you know? And I'm not saying you're not gonna have your own feelings to process after that.
Being in these dynamics is gonna obviously, it doesn't matter how zen you are, you're gonna have a physiological response to having been in. relationship with others. - Most of the time when people are talking about setting boundaries,
it's not setting boundaries with the public at large. - No. - Boundary setting is something that people are really focused on doing with their close intimate partnerships and family relationships.
So it's like, this isn't nothing. - Right. - This is hard work. - It's hard work. - It's hard work. - And so I want people to respect that this is where the work is.
Setting boundaries is high level shit. You know, it's - - And you can't even, it's like you can't even begin to want to do it because you know the cost is gonna be so high if you don't have enough love for yourself.
And again, this is not saying like, oh, well, if you don't have love for yourself, fuck you. - Right, like we're, we're here to help you get it. - Yeah, we're not judging, that sounded so judgy when I said it, what I mean is,
when as you're on your journey to self love, 'cause you're on that journey right now, if you're listening to this, you're in our energy, you're one of us, 'cause we're on a journey. - We're on this journey and you're gonna get there and then all you have to do now is view your life through the lens of love and compassion for yourself as much as you can.
can make yourself less available to things that hurt you, that don't feel good to you. Again, this is a step -by -step process. Nobody does this overnight. I hate to break it to you.
This is not really like a fast thing. - No. - And that's okay because life is about the journey. It's not about arriving anywhere. You're always arriving to wherever you're supposed to be. - Yeah,
the arriving is recognizing that there is no arrival. - There is no arriving. - There is no arriving. like, if you can, if if we all can just start to work in a in a in the same direction,
you know, work, work toward a common goal of just releasing obligation and like just rewiring this whole driving driving energy and and letting go of guilt and shame and just being like,
"Yeah, no, that doesn't serve us." As humanity, that's what I look forward to. And I hope that whatever is after this is a big zoom out so we get to see what it all meant.
And we get to see the meaning in the chaos. Like we're down here seeing the chaos. in the meaning, but I want to see the meaning in the chaos. And I hope that we get that zoomed out view,
you know? And I just want to, I want to know what all this, I want to know what all this was. I want to get, I want to get the answer to it. - I love that.
I love that. - And I hope that that's what we get. Like I hope that that's the next thing. It's like, you're like, oh, damn, like, that was such a cool like plot twist. Like, you're like, oh, damn, like that was such a cool like plot twist. Like, I see how it dovetailed here,
and like, oh, my God, and then all of these people were affected. You know what I mean? Like, we're all, we're each in a thread in this giant tapestry, tapestry, this galaxy of a,
you know, tapestry, and yeah, and then we get to see, like, oh, that I was that color, so she was that color because we were weaving this, you know what I mean? It's just about playing with...
viewpoints and mindsets that are more beneficial to you. The whole journey is not about what's right or wrong. We're not saying any particular religion is right or wrong.
We're saying if you're in a mindset right now or in a high control group or a religion that doesn't allow you to explore your own internal world because it warns you that it's bad and it's bad.
and it benefits from you not ever leaving that tight mindset because it's either getting siphoning funds off of you or energy or both like free for the labor and volunteer.
I mean, I used to volunteer at church like a whole second ass job. - Oh yeah, 100%. - You know, and that happened to me even whenever I went into Buddhism. So like I carried that Christian work ethic over into Buddhism and like they were more than happy to lead.
have me free with myself, but then that was my journey. I had to see how I felt I needed to perform labor in order to feel like I deserved to be even in the room.
- Right. - You know, and it's just all these little learnings. - Yeah, we have to earn our way in there. - Right, we don't yet know. - I mean, this is, again, where we're threading the needle, we're holding paradox. You know, we are,
I think, it's beautiful to have a mind of gratitude and honoring the traditions that we're able to learn that help us as like little, I always think of other concepts as kind of like,
what are the, what am I gesturing, y 'all can't see. What's it, whenever an old person has a cane? - Thank you. - Yes, girl. - I'm thinking of a colander.
colander and I couldn't think of a more cane. Now we know, okay. - You just have a trouble with some C words today, girl. - I just have a trouble with some C words. I know some that I could say about some people,
but anyway, I'll do that next Tuesday. Anyway, yes, girl, yes, girl. These other concepts are canes or support structures to get us out of the rut that we're in.
in these other tight and high control group ways of thinking. When we're deconstructing, we're gonna need something to lean on to get out of that,
to get a different perspective. And that's what these are. It's nothing is perfect, certainly, and you should take what resonates with you in anything and leave the rest.
And that is the whole, yeah. fucking thing, you guys. Like we have, that's what I was saying. We're like the checks mix of the spiritual podcast world. - Sometimes you get chocolate,
sometimes you just get pretzels. - Yes, yes, all mixed together because like we, there's no one thing. It's like you get to a level where you're like, oh, oh, it's, it's so many,
it's infinite. It's infinite possibilities. I can show up infinite ways. Like it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's,
it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, there's just infinity. When you get to that level, you can't unsee it. You can't go backwards, right? So that's what we're doing here is just like fucking infinitely creating.
- Well, and the reason why this is important to talk about beyond just giving people a lifeline whenever they're feeling hopeless and they've gone down the rabbit hole and they don't know who to talk to.
or whatever that they feel like they're crazy. You're not crazy. The world is infinite. There are infinite perspectives and the, I lost my damn train of thought.
I was going to talk. We were talking about energy vampires and boundaries. We're talking about interpersonal dynamics. Radical self -love. Radical self -love. Maybe this is the part of the podcast where we just repeat phrases.
phrases. - Yeah. - It's like a multiple choice quiz, except there's no quiz, there's no performance at all. We're just gonna start naming random concepts.
(laughing) - You don't have to spell it or read it or do anything with it, we're just offering it to you. - Everything, it's like, listen.
- Oh, that's what I was gonna say. Because sometimes, you know, I feel like like I'm way far out on a limb here, you know, where this is a very trip. These are very trippy conversations because they are, you know, we're doing we're walking a tight wire between two really like established ways of thinking.
Yes, many established ways of thinking. Yeah. And we're on that tight wire and we have to like, again, it's like threading the needle. Yeah. And I think about sometimes it just kind of play with the perspective of like, what would, you know,
somebody I knew in church or something, you know, they were listening to this. And I know, you know, first thing out of their mouth is crazy, right? - Oh, 100%. - Well, 'cause they have to devalue you.
- We used to think, we were crazy. - Yes, like if we had listened to this 20 years ago, we would have said, "Oh,
they're super crazy." - Because what we're talking about is changing our perspective to infinite perspectives. And the reason why it's not... crazy is because one, it gives people a feeling of validation that they can also explore.
And two, when you go into these mindsets that are, you know, different, that are not your conditioning or programming, you can bring back creative solutions to real shit,
you guys. Like this is where we get to explore our creativity. This is where our God spark or our purpose. really gets to be expressed in the 3D manifested.
- And it's about experiencing it. It's about embodying it. Like you don't, it's not like a course or like a certification or something like,
yeah, like learn, learn. I love learning. I think it's fantastic. But like as far as like for you, like the evolution of your soul, your spirit is not going to be found in a book.
It's gonna be found when you are experiencing life with all of your senses, intuition included, like you're in there doing the thing,
you know? And you are connecting with whom you are here to connect and creating with them and doing this dance, you know?
- And when you're not, when you aren't able to be present in your life. kind of see through clear eyes, what's here and available to you, we miss those opportunities.
Now, I don't believe that you really miss anything for good 'cause I think everything comes back around when you're ready for it. Just like this podcast would have sounded like complete insanity to us, you know, 10 years ago or 15 years ago,
but it doesn't now 'cause it's us obviously, we think we make sense. - So we might be the only ones, but that's okay. And it's just about giving yourself the space to explore and be wrong sometimes and recognize that you don't know.
- We, listen, the whole thing is for us to get on in here and fuck shit up, like that's what I'm figuring out. It's like, you can't, it's a game. We're literally playing a game.
Like, we are part of... infinity. - Yeah. - We can't go anywhere. - Right. - You know what I mean? - 'Cause we can exit like this mortal coil or whatever.
- And will. - And do. - And drop the body, you know, right. But like the essence of us is infinite. So we can get on in here and fuck shit up anytime.
If we don't like how something is, we fucking tear it down and build something else. We... We rebuild, we change it. Right. 'Cause we're here to fuck shit up. We are. Yeah. And we,
I think I can speak for you in this regard 'cause I know we've had a lot of conversations about this, want to fuck shit up to the effect of creating a new Earth paradigm that allows everyone to be, all their basic needs to be completely cared for without any question.
Like everyone has shelter and food, y 'all. Like literally what the fuck are we talking about? Perfect. - The earth provides all of the raw materials for us to sustain life. Those are gifts for us all to share.
- Yeah, we got in there and got ownership. - We went in there and established a bank and got everything up and monetized it and made it all gross and stupid. - I didn't even believe people like that. - And I understand why people don't wanna look at how obvious it is that we've made this whole structure up and how bogus it is to think that people can own land.
land and property and stuff like that, 'cause I don't wanna give up my property. I don't want other people to have to give up their personal property, but if you zoom out a little bit, come the fuck on people. We all just humans born here.
- Well, yeah. - How many in one person gonna own land? - I know, and that's the whole fucking thing. It's like we all get here, if we wanna buddy up and all live in a commune or something like that.
- We get to do that. - That's awesome. - Like, yeah. we can totally do that hundred percent but we These researchers are for all of us all of us and like and this is where this is where like Dharma comes in This is where like your purpose comes in.
There are people I know because my husband is one of them Who just like to build things? Yeah, exactly like if Ralph won the lottery he would build houses for like like children's hospital.
- Aw. - Families to live in while their children were undergoing treatment. - I love that. - Like not just a room, but like an actual house where it's like your child is receiving treatment for whatever they're being treated for and like you get to live here.
That's the kind of, that's how passionate he is about it. Like that's what he wants to do. - Those people just want to build things? things. Why do we have to always monetize everything?
Why can't we, you know, and this is like the, I always refer to it as like the Star Trek model. 'Cause it's like, people don't, there is no money. People do what they are passionate about.
And they do it for the joy of just being in community and sharing. their gift. - Being useful.
- Yes. - And I know we're coming close to the end of this episode, but in future episodes, I'm sure we'll get into like dealing with the paradoxes of like what that means for people who are otherly abled,
you know? Like who aren't, you know, who have disabilities as they would be termed in our society, you know? We're just different, have different capabilities and making space to understand that.
that we have to keep challenging our belief systems and expanding and including and having compassion for. And all of that is possible if we're not all having to fucking fight over scraps.
- Right. - You know what I mean? - Yeah. - So anyway, that's my vision for the future. - Yeah, and I think that's a choice. - Yeah. - Like I think that we can all start to to plug into this new sort of more collaborative,
fluid feminine energy and stop trying to like parse everything out and be like, you know, like this part is mine, you know, because like-- - That comes from fear, and it totally does.
- It's a journey, I mean, it's a journey, it's complicated, we're all on this journey together, and we'll just keep deconstructing as we go. - Yeah. homework assignment do your best to release obligation of it and to minimize or at least give a lot of mindfulness to striving and driving energy and let go of guilt and shame yeah I love it back
Investigate and Interrogate | Season 1 Episode 5
Oct 31, 2023•47 min•Season 1Ep. 5
Episode description
Nervous system stuff. Energy Vampires. Questioning societal constructs. Ya know—the usual.
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Pavane – Time Variation
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