People think that the things that they want to manifest are like as if the universe works like a customer service line.

What you thought was somewhere in the future was actually just waiting on a different wavelength of your perception.

Human beings hold on sometimes and contain ourselves when really what feels like pain is actually asking for you to expand. You could save a lot of money

at Sephora if you decide that you have the permission to do what feels good to you. I had been

such an overfunctioning person, so hypervigilant and carrying everything for everyone for so long.

My whole life I loved to sing. And even though I was writing music for TV shows,

it didn't feel like my destiny. A songwriter friend of mine said to me that podcasting is about

to blow up. Within a year, we had a million downloads. It was waiting for me the whole time.

Hey guys, welcome back to Everything is Energy. You sent in some really thoughtful questions for this episode

around sole contracts, grief, divorce, and career pivots. I hope that this conversation gives

you permission to trust that there might be something bigger unfolding than the plan you've been

clinging to. All right, let's get into it. Okay, so for the first question, you all wanted to know,

how do I let myself feel pain without turning it into a story that something is wrong with me?

It's interesting. I recently heard Zach Bush, who's a physician, talking about how he was once a doctor at a monastery.

And he was surprised that so many of the monks had physical ailments because he believed that your consciousness

affects your physical being and that if you were so positive and enlightened that you would

probably have less and less of physical issues. And he wound up realizing that for some of the monks,

there was a tremendous amount of unexpressed pain and grief

and sadness that then would metabolize as different kinds of physical issues. And he said,

he being a very spiritual person has this understanding that our soul, even though our soul knows

without a shadow of a doubt that we are connected to our creator and that there is a way in which

we can have this equanimity and peace with everything as it is, we asked to also have a human

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