New Year Bonus: A Very Intentional 2022

did it. And I truly believed it for about ten minutes. So so that was my If you would have told me then that we were gonna be saying two, I would have thought it was absolute bullshit. But I'm so excited we're here because I actually feel like two is going to be an incredible year. I am one of those people I used to be all about like starting the new year off with you know, new energy and all the things and all the resolutions, and last year broke me of that. I was like, I don't really

have resolution and I could care less. And so wherever you are as we go into this episode, I'm just gonna say, wherever you are on your journey of I could care less or oh my god, it's a new year, it feels so good, just be there because it's fine either way. And honestly, I saw something on Instagram the other day and it said, just because it's a new year doesn't mean basically like anything's going to change unless

you change. And so I do feel, however, there is this kind of shift of energy that happens that I personally this year unlike last year, and wanting to take advantage of. So I've had some time down after the holidays, and my favorite is between Christmas and New Year's because I feel like absolutely nothing is needed of me. I can actually just kind of go into my own world and through that portal, which is what I felt like

it was this year. Through that portal, I've come out with some really clear lessons and understanding and vision for two and I feel really good about it. And so if you're with me, I thought that I would share what is inspiring me right now, what is inspiring me for the new year, and maybe something will land and inspire YouTube. So here goes all right, So let's dive in, everybody. So here's what two thousand and twenty two is all about you know me, I like to dive into everything.

I like the numerology, I like the astrology. If you've followed me on a laim and you know like if it has if it can give me guidance in any way and connect with my spirit, my soul, then like more power to it. Bring it on. So Remington Donovan, who is a fantastic human being. He's an astrologist and just a mystic himself. He does a lot with mystical cabala and he usually teaches I think over the past three or four years, he's taught this beautiful course online

every year. I highly recommend if you can go grab his course. I recommend doing it because it's so good and it just started clicking with me everything that he was saying. I'll give you a few little tidbits. It's the six year, which is adds up to six. Six is the year of the sun and yellow, the color yellow, which I was like, yeah, I was onto something just a year early. But it's the year of the sun. And it's interesting because I have been drawn to the

color yellow. I don't know if anybody else has been drawn to it. But Eddie got me a new pair of AirPods for Christmas and they're yellow. And then he got me a pair of tennis shoes that have gold on them, and it's like my whole Christmas, all my gifts were yelled low. And then I and then I find out it's the year of the sun and the color yellow, So I feel like I'm set. So if the color yellow is influencing your life right now, you kind of know why you're in tune with the six energy.

It is also the year of destiny, which I found really beautiful. The five year. From what I've learned, the five year was supposed to be rough. It was the year of growth and learning a lot of lessons, and the six years kind of the opposite of that energy. It gives us a break, a breather, and if we are in alignment with our soul, when we get into alignment with the deepest part of ourselves, with our core, everything starts to kind of unfold. In this year, which

I find really beautiful. I don't know if you believe in that. I would like to believe that, so I'm I'm rolling with it. That is a little bit of the numerology of this year, which I just love and I love that it's the year of destiny and for me, the way that life is unfolding for me at the moment, I truly believe that um when we align with our core,

things will fall into place. Something I love to do is and I started doing in a couple of years ago, but for some reason, it's like really becoming an embodied practice for me this year, and it's finding words for the year that are kind of my beacon, my guiding light of sorts. And usually there's three words for me. This year there's five, and these are my words. I would share them and I'll break them down for you because it was actually in the year's past I've kind

of had them as my beacon and guiding light. But this year I've found that there are ways in which I am wanting to incorporate these indo my life, and they've already started showing up for me, and my soul is just basically showing me how it wants to be incorporated. And I also feel like these will expand as I

go along. So I highly recommend if you feel called, if there's words that are calling you as a part of your journey right now, pay mine to that pay attention it could be you might not have ever done this before in your in your practice or as a practice. Just play with your soul, Play with your soul, play with your spirit. Just amuse it for just a moment

and see what's popping up for you. And you might not know what it is stirring up at the moment, but if it's coming into your reality more than once, try it on for size, like get curious about it and see what, see what begins to unfold. My words this year are wild, sacred, joy, ease, and community, and each of those words here's how I'm breaking him down for myself. So wild is one that well, first off, it's actually I wrote a song about it that's going

to be on my record. And I think it's a word that I've yet to fully step into and it's one that I believe will find me an unfold for me along the journey. I have been listening to this beautiful audio series by a man named Francis Weller, who I hope to get on this podcast a S a P. He calls himself a soul tracker and a soul activist, which I is just so beautiful and his he's such a poetic teacher, and he has truly been influencing my

world deeply over this past few weeks. And one of the things he talks about is how we have suppressed the animal body, which I find so primal. There's this piece of myself that is coming out on my record

that is true. We truly primal. I mean, I think you hear it and songs like throw my arms around the world, but there's this like primal place I'm singing from, and I think you know the way he speaks of it as down to like our scent of our body, the hair of our body, like everything we've kind of we've basically we've basically been so domesticated that we've forgotten in our humanity that we are there is an animalistic part of us that is very real, and it is

very suppressed in most all of us. And so for me, the wild is about becoming more in tune or allowing that piece of myself to have a voice. And for me, what that's looking like so far is during a part of my menstrual cycle, there's a part of me that just really loud the other day, wanted to throw a temper tantrum like full on, and it was like, I actually kind of did. And then I told my husband. I was like, I need to throw temper champers RUMs.

He goes, you mean, like one you just threw. I was like, I didn't throw a temper tantrum, but yes, it is like the one I just threw, and it and it needs to speak. And so that there's a part of me that is like this wild like anger, rage, like fierceness that needs to come through. And so I have in this part of my cycle, I have just recently discovered I need timber tantrums, and so I have. Now I will sit on the couch or on the floor and I would literally like just beat the floor.

It feels so primal. It feels almost like, you know, like a gorilla like beating their chest. Like that's what that conjures up for me. And so when I'm done, it's like a whole like different energy just moved up and out of my body and now I can think clear and I can I don't have a I don't have this anger that I'm walking around with and projecting out into the world. I just allowed it to move through me. So for me, in this very beginning of the year, That's how the wild is showing up for me,

and it's super powerful. So if that resonates, feel free, just say Leanne gave me the permission to have its ember dandrum. Just don't project it at anyone. Put it back into the mother Earth. She'll take it for us. The next word for me is sacred, and sacred is kind of this lens I'm starting to view my life through. It's starting out with my body and I'm really taking care of my body in this moment and recognizing, like,

what a sacred vessel this is. It's taken me almost forty years to finally understand, like how sacred our vessel is. I'm cleaning out my body right now. I'm detoxing mercury and lead and all the things out, and it is such a process, but it's made me recognize this sacred journey that actually there's so much sacredness within the journey of me detoxing my body and coming home to myself.

I'm recognizing how my voice is sacred, and how my energy is sacred, and my time is sacred, and just the fact that I wake up into a new day is sacred, Like how can how can I allow this through line of sacred to run my life. And like I said, it's a new lens in which I view things through. So I'm seeing the beauty and everything and the wholeness of who I am, in the ups and downs, in the joy and the depression, like and that can change.

I can feel all of it within one day. I mean I can feel all of it within a few minutes. And it's the beauty of the journey of this being in this human body. Yeah, it's really powerful. I'm finding. This is another thing that I learned from the Francis weller Um audio series, which is called Living a Soulful Life and Why it matters. He talks about Mary Oliver, who is a beautiful poet, and someone had asked her how she has written all of these incredible poems, and

she said that she kept her appointment. I was like, Wow, that's amazing. And what I've noticed for myself and why I'm shifting into this sacredness of my life is that I've been keeping my appointment with myself, with spirit, with soul, with other I've been showing up and not knowing or even having an expectation of what is supposed to show up. In the container of relationship or the container with myself. I've just been showing up and then accepting what is there.

And so and this is a practice I've been really diving into with my voice, which is for me, my voice is like if it shows up in my voice, then I can and I work through it. In my voice, it works through every other part of my life. So I'm very fortunate in that way to know that this is kind of like my through line if I can pinpoint it in my voice, like it connects. But I've been keeping the appointment with myself to show up to sing in gratitude of just the fact that I even

have the gift. And that could look like two minutes, I could look like thirty minutes. But it's something that I do every day and it doesn't even need to have words. I just make sound. And so when I heard keeping the appointment, it made me realize that like every day I'm I'm keeping I'm keeping these appointments and keeping this vow to myself that is very sacred, and it's become very sacred to me. So that's my word. That's really that's probably the deepest word for me. That's

kind of like the overarching view of the year. Joy. Joy has been showing up a lot for me, and it's also something I have to fight for. I have been incorporating it into my life by speaking of my joy when it is available, when it is showing up in the moment, not being afraid to be like, I feel so great, I think in the past, and I think this is probably something a lot of people can relate to. I have been afraid to speak joy into the world because I'm afraid it's going to go away

and I'm afraid to lose it. And so now I'm like, the more I speak about it, like the more the more it shows up. And it's, like I said, it's something I have to fight for. Going through this detox process has been I'm in detoxing mercury in my body.

I the mercury shows up as can be very agitating, very anxiety producing, and there's a lot of anger that comes up, and it can be exhausting, and there's depression and it really kind of strips it strips all the joy from my body, and so I literally have to I I start to think joyful thoughts and I start to put on a song and dance to it. That makes me feel good and like, I literally that's my fighting for my life and my body and my and my own like joyful experience in the darkest of moments.

So I know we're all going through a lot of freaking dark moments right now. So I just encourage you so deeply too. Just speak joy to the world if it even if it's fleeting, even if it's only for a second. She'd be like, I feel so great, because the more that we speak that into existence, the more will show up for us. Um And it has. That has been a lesson that I've been learning over the past couple of months. So even though it might not be there, we still have to fight for it because

I believe that that is truly like our baseline. It's supposed to be joy. It's supposed to be this beautiful experience. Uh ease, I say fight for it, and then I say ease. The duality of life, um. Ease for me has been something another piece of a new lens which I'm shifting for myself to view life through. I know that it can be incredibly challenging for us to find ease in this life, because especially right now, because it seems hard. It just it just does, and there's a

real reality to that. But I do know that we create our reality. And so for me, where this began showing up once again was in my voice of recognizing when it was easy for me to sing, when it was easy for me to communicate. And then I started this game with myself, reminding myself every morning to pay attention to what is easy about my day. And once again, the more I started to pay attention to what was easy, the more it started to show up. That's just how

our brain works. So just a little tidbit on this brain part. We have something called the reticular activating system and it's a part of our brain. Basically, I'll break it down like this, And I learned this from Mel Robbins, who's actually going to be on the podcast. She has a book called The High five Habit that she breaks this down really well in layman's terms, and which is why I love her because her teachings are so simple.

But the R A S system in our brain. So like if you if you think like I want a red Audie, and all of a sudden you start seeing red audies everywhere, it's because you're you're subconscious, you're paying it's all of a sudden, you're basically drawing that to you because you're subconscious is looking for that, even though we may not be aware of it. So when we're looking for joy, when we're speaking more of that into

the world, we start to find more joyful things. When we're paying attention to e ease, more ease shows up. So it's actually like it's scientifically proven, like like we can make this happen. So the ease for me has been just really paying attention to how he's is showing up in my life. I just had to write something for a friend of mine and I all of a sudden, I've been dreading it and dreading it, and then I picked up my phone and it like fell out of

my brain like instantly. I was like, oh, that was really easy. I don't know why I was dreading this, So it is pretty amazing. And I think if we just acknowledge the way that ease is showing up in our life, even if it's once a day, once a day, trust me, we'll start to turn into several times a day, and all of a sudden, you'll have a life of ease.

And I know that as everything is opposite of everything that we see on the news, is opposite of everything we're going through right now as a collective, it is opposite of everything we've been taught. But I swear it is available. And I'm still I still feel like I'm kind of in between worlds of challenging and ease, and maybe they're always I think it will always be a

bit of both. But if we can recognize that there is ease in our life, we can also start to create more of it and be more intentional about it. And then community is my last word. And community is something that we're creating here, which I love, but it's something that I'm a I like. I don't know if I call myself a loner. I like people, I like connection,

and I like my time alone. And I have also believed for a long time I didn't belong and so I'm finding more belonging with it myself and therefore wanting to find more belonging within the world. And I'm also realizing that maybe, and maybe this try this went on for size, like maybe I was around the wrong people, and that not that they are bad people at all, it's just maybe they weren't my people, and so I'm

starting to find my people. And when you find your people and you're like, oh, there's a community of a like minded individuals that I want to connect with. And so I actually phoned a friend the other day and was like, I want to start a community with you of even if it's just like four or five of us, that we're consistently showing up for one another in some way, shape or form. And so I've reached out to start trying to collaborate and connect with others, other like minded

individuals and and start a community. If you're looking for that in your life, I highly recommend like be the one who reaches out and said, hey, let's start a zoom group if everybody is not getting together in public, or you know, let's meet up for coffee, like whatever it is. I know right now more than ever, we

are in need of community. And for me, I know that that is creating something that's intimate, and it's also creating more and more community within how I'm reaching out into the world with my music and my heart and my spirit and all the things. So I look forward to deeper community here with you all, and happy two I know I said it was a six year and that was only five words. Maybe there's a sixth word

that will come at some point. Maybe by the time we get into the third season of Holy Human, I'll have my sixth word. If any of this resonated at all, reach out and let me know, because I would love to hear how you're feeling about the new year, what's resonating, what your words are, how you're incorporating those into your life, and yeah, happy, I love you and I look forward to season three, which we're working on right now. I'll see you soon. M H. Holy Human with me Leanne

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