1 00:00:27,840 --> 00:00:34,440 Speaker 1: Take a deep breath in through your nose. Hold it. 2 00:00:36,800 --> 00:01:02,080 Speaker 2: Now, release slowly again, deep in, helle hold release, repeating 3 00:01:02,280 --> 00:01:09,160 Speaker 2: internally to yourself as you connect to my voice. I 4 00:01:09,200 --> 00:01:25,119 Speaker 2: am deeply deep well. I am deeply well. I am deeply. 5 00:01:26,840 --> 00:01:35,199 Speaker 1: Well. I'm Debbie Brown, and this is the Deeply Well Podcast. 6 00:01:43,920 --> 00:01:46,959 Speaker 2: Welcome to Deeply Well, a soft place. 7 00:01:46,720 --> 00:01:48,240 Speaker 1: To land on your journey. 8 00:01:48,720 --> 00:01:53,080 Speaker 2: A podcast for those that are curious, creative, and ready 9 00:01:53,120 --> 00:01:58,160 Speaker 2: to expand in higher consciousness and self care. This is 10 00:01:58,200 --> 00:02:03,440 Speaker 2: where we heal, this is where we transcend. Welcome to 11 00:02:03,680 --> 00:02:08,880 Speaker 2: the show. I'm Debbie Brown. This is probably the fifth 12 00:02:08,919 --> 00:02:14,079 Speaker 2: time that I re recorded this introduction. I'm recording this 13 00:02:14,200 --> 00:02:22,960 Speaker 2: episode on November sixth, so it is the morning of 14 00:02:24,120 --> 00:02:28,920 Speaker 2: the election results. I recorded this entire episode actually a 15 00:02:28,919 --> 00:02:34,000 Speaker 2: couple weeks ago, and there's just no way it could 16 00:02:34,040 --> 00:02:40,359 Speaker 2: air this week. So this almost feels like a time capsule. 17 00:02:40,480 --> 00:02:45,440 Speaker 2: I feel like I'll be listening back to this episode 18 00:02:45,680 --> 00:02:53,120 Speaker 2: in twenty years and just remembering this present moment. It's interesting, 19 00:02:53,240 --> 00:02:56,600 Speaker 2: I think as I'm doing this in real time, you know, 20 00:02:56,840 --> 00:02:59,640 Speaker 2: just a few hours after kind of waking up to 21 00:03:01,639 --> 00:03:06,080 Speaker 2: the reality of right now, the reality of the years 22 00:03:06,120 --> 00:03:11,440 Speaker 2: to come. I know, a lot of us are processing 23 00:03:11,440 --> 00:03:14,720 Speaker 2: this in a few different ways this week, and so 24 00:03:17,080 --> 00:03:19,960 Speaker 2: I'm just going to show up as I am. I'm 25 00:03:19,960 --> 00:03:21,359 Speaker 2: going to show up as I am. I'm going to 26 00:03:21,400 --> 00:03:25,680 Speaker 2: show up in whatever this feeling is. And I'm still 27 00:03:25,800 --> 00:03:32,040 Speaker 2: not quite sure what the feeling I'm feeling is. Overwhelming emotions, right, 28 00:03:32,720 --> 00:03:36,920 Speaker 2: overwhelming emotions. The thing that I think is so interesting 29 00:03:37,880 --> 00:03:44,280 Speaker 2: about the way sometimes our lessons can be layered. I 30 00:03:44,320 --> 00:03:49,200 Speaker 2: think it's really interesting to investigate how, where, and why 31 00:03:50,400 --> 00:03:58,360 Speaker 2: this hurts for those of us that are hurting. With 32 00:03:59,680 --> 00:04:05,640 Speaker 2: Vice President Kamala Harris losing this election to Donald Trump, 33 00:04:08,480 --> 00:04:11,440 Speaker 2: so many things come up, and I think that has 34 00:04:11,480 --> 00:04:17,960 Speaker 2: been so representative of the last decade in general. So 35 00:04:18,880 --> 00:04:24,040 Speaker 2: many things not just about how we operate as a society, 36 00:04:24,440 --> 00:04:34,040 Speaker 2: but so many themes and things about how much our 37 00:04:34,080 --> 00:04:38,920 Speaker 2: internal world affects the outer reality, not just for us, 38 00:04:38,960 --> 00:04:42,880 Speaker 2: but for so many have been coming up for review. 39 00:04:43,040 --> 00:04:47,560 Speaker 2: So many different ways that we can look at and 40 00:04:47,640 --> 00:04:54,040 Speaker 2: experience the undercurrent of feeling, the subconscious of our individual 41 00:04:54,080 --> 00:04:58,960 Speaker 2: psyches and our psyche as a country as a species. 42 00:04:59,760 --> 00:05:04,920 Speaker 2: All all of that has been coming up for a review. 43 00:05:08,960 --> 00:05:13,640 Speaker 2: It's so interesting to the somadic effects of our experiences. 44 00:05:13,839 --> 00:05:18,280 Speaker 2: So I have had many experiences with chronic pain in 45 00:05:18,279 --> 00:05:21,400 Speaker 2: my life, and I woke up this morning and my 46 00:05:21,480 --> 00:05:23,680 Speaker 2: back was just out, like it hurts so bad. So 47 00:05:23,680 --> 00:05:25,840 Speaker 2: if you're watching this on YouTube, I actually have like 48 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:28,480 Speaker 2: a back brace on, I might look a little different. 49 00:05:28,600 --> 00:05:35,320 Speaker 2: My shoulders are slouched forward, and I just like caught 50 00:05:35,320 --> 00:05:41,920 Speaker 2: a glimpse of myself in the camera that's filming, and 51 00:05:41,960 --> 00:05:43,720 Speaker 2: I'm like, yeah, this is what it looks like when 52 00:05:43,760 --> 00:05:48,120 Speaker 2: you're hurting inside. You know, sometimes our bodies take on 53 00:05:48,800 --> 00:05:51,680 Speaker 2: these feelings and these postures and we're like, oh, why 54 00:05:51,760 --> 00:05:54,720 Speaker 2: am I just not feeling so well today? But it's 55 00:05:54,920 --> 00:05:56,840 Speaker 2: you know, it's interesting to look at and what am 56 00:05:56,839 --> 00:05:59,960 Speaker 2: I processing? Because I'm even just looking at the symbolism 57 00:06:00,080 --> 00:06:03,160 Speaker 2: in my own posture. And this is not intentional by 58 00:06:03,160 --> 00:06:09,159 Speaker 2: any means. I am sad today, make no mistake, But 59 00:06:09,240 --> 00:06:13,520 Speaker 2: I also am strong and very resilient. We all are, 60 00:06:14,440 --> 00:06:18,840 Speaker 2: and there are still many revolutions to be had in 61 00:06:18,880 --> 00:06:21,400 Speaker 2: this country, in this world, inside of each of us, 62 00:06:21,640 --> 00:06:26,880 Speaker 2: and so I'm not broken by any means by this disappointed, 63 00:06:29,120 --> 00:06:31,760 Speaker 2: but physically to have a look at myself like my 64 00:06:31,880 --> 00:06:35,360 Speaker 2: shoulders are like bowled forward, and as much as I'm 65 00:06:35,400 --> 00:06:40,240 Speaker 2: trying to kind of like ough put them back and 66 00:06:40,320 --> 00:06:45,359 Speaker 2: have better posture, that's just not what's possible for this body. 67 00:06:45,400 --> 00:06:49,960 Speaker 2: And so maybe my outer reality wants to look like 68 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:52,160 Speaker 2: how I feel inside, and I'm going to give myself 69 00:06:52,200 --> 00:06:55,800 Speaker 2: the space for that. And anyone as you happen to 70 00:06:55,839 --> 00:06:58,560 Speaker 2: find this episode, whether it's this week and nice and 71 00:06:58,600 --> 00:07:02,840 Speaker 2: fresh on the hill of this experience, or if it 72 00:07:02,880 --> 00:07:08,760 Speaker 2: is in the weeks to come and the times to come. 73 00:07:08,880 --> 00:07:12,600 Speaker 2: In whatever way you're relating to this information, notice your 74 00:07:12,600 --> 00:07:17,200 Speaker 2: own body, Notice how you feel, Notice how you emote 75 00:07:17,600 --> 00:07:26,040 Speaker 2: thinking and processing this experience and others. Some of the 76 00:07:26,040 --> 00:07:29,040 Speaker 2: themes that come up that I know I'm exploring for myself, 77 00:07:29,080 --> 00:07:31,960 Speaker 2: and I'd be so curious as you listen to this episode, 78 00:07:32,520 --> 00:07:35,160 Speaker 2: and you may want to consider journaling about this in 79 00:07:35,200 --> 00:07:43,280 Speaker 2: some ways, But what are all the ways that this 80 00:07:43,480 --> 00:07:49,680 Speaker 2: news is affecting you. Let's kind of list out the 81 00:07:49,720 --> 00:07:57,600 Speaker 2: ways it feels disappointing. Some of the ways for myself 82 00:07:57,680 --> 00:08:03,400 Speaker 2: that this feels disappointing. Is so many layers, and this 83 00:08:03,520 --> 00:08:05,440 Speaker 2: is just what I'm coming to now. I will be 84 00:08:05,520 --> 00:08:09,760 Speaker 2: thinking about this for a very long time and exploring it. 85 00:08:11,640 --> 00:08:13,520 Speaker 2: But I think one of the things that comes forward 86 00:08:13,640 --> 00:08:16,400 Speaker 2: is one of the first things is I'm just I'm 87 00:08:16,560 --> 00:08:24,760 Speaker 2: angry about the mediocrity of it all. I have anger 88 00:08:24,800 --> 00:08:29,520 Speaker 2: in me for the fact that this is not for 89 00:08:29,560 --> 00:08:35,719 Speaker 2: the greater good, and yet I am forced to take it. 90 00:08:39,679 --> 00:08:46,280 Speaker 2: I am angry and frustrated that the thing that happened 91 00:08:46,320 --> 00:08:50,360 Speaker 2: so often in our individual lives is playing out here. 92 00:08:51,080 --> 00:08:58,040 Speaker 2: So many things, but one of them. You know, when 93 00:08:58,080 --> 00:09:02,200 Speaker 2: you're the best, and you don't win, when you're the 94 00:09:02,240 --> 00:09:07,280 Speaker 2: best person for the job, for the whatever, and you 95 00:09:07,280 --> 00:09:12,080 Speaker 2: don't win when you have the most integrity, and you 96 00:09:12,120 --> 00:09:21,200 Speaker 2: don't win when you've worked really hard, very selflessly, and 97 00:09:21,240 --> 00:09:32,440 Speaker 2: you don't win when you see how irrational so many 98 00:09:32,480 --> 00:09:38,400 Speaker 2: people innately feel and think. That to me rings out 99 00:09:38,440 --> 00:09:41,640 Speaker 2: a lot, because you know, I think one of the 100 00:09:41,640 --> 00:09:45,400 Speaker 2: ways that society is able to function is that we 101 00:09:45,520 --> 00:09:54,280 Speaker 2: all believe in consequences for causing harm. It's what keeps 102 00:09:54,320 --> 00:09:59,320 Speaker 2: us all safe. There is this shared belief as a 103 00:09:59,360 --> 00:10:06,840 Speaker 2: civilization that if you cause harm to others, there will 104 00:10:06,880 --> 00:10:16,280 Speaker 2: be consequences. Like really, as simple and fundamental as that sounds, 105 00:10:18,600 --> 00:10:22,640 Speaker 2: it's what it really is what keeps us safe because 106 00:10:22,640 --> 00:10:26,599 Speaker 2: we are connecting to this shared belief that we're investing 107 00:10:26,679 --> 00:10:29,800 Speaker 2: in right and so when things like this happen and 108 00:10:29,840 --> 00:10:33,920 Speaker 2: that is disproven, I think about what space does that 109 00:10:34,080 --> 00:10:45,080 Speaker 2: create for more harm we're not seeing real outcomes. So 110 00:10:45,160 --> 00:10:49,199 Speaker 2: many thoughts, so many thoughts, so many thoughts, so many thoughts. 111 00:10:49,800 --> 00:10:51,480 Speaker 2: I've always thought since I was a little girl, I 112 00:10:51,559 --> 00:10:54,959 Speaker 2: used to think about the Holocaust all the time as 113 00:10:54,960 --> 00:10:57,440 Speaker 2: a child, and I used to think about the Civil 114 00:10:57,520 --> 00:11:00,719 Speaker 2: Rights movement all the time as a child, and specifically 115 00:11:00,760 --> 00:11:03,880 Speaker 2: I used to search my body and search my spiritual 116 00:11:03,960 --> 00:11:10,240 Speaker 2: understanding for trying to understand how it could have felt 117 00:11:10,400 --> 00:11:14,000 Speaker 2: in someone's body to be alive in those times. I 118 00:11:14,120 --> 00:11:19,320 Speaker 2: recognized early on that every point in human history is 119 00:11:19,480 --> 00:11:23,079 Speaker 2: modern history as it's happening, and we always look back, 120 00:11:23,240 --> 00:11:27,320 Speaker 2: especially because early photography or videography was black and white, 121 00:11:27,400 --> 00:11:31,640 Speaker 2: or it was choppy, or it wasn't as realistic as 122 00:11:31,679 --> 00:11:33,760 Speaker 2: it all looks for us right now. So there was 123 00:11:33,800 --> 00:11:39,720 Speaker 2: this way to keep it as separate and apart, but 124 00:11:39,840 --> 00:11:42,240 Speaker 2: it was modern life, like day to day life. You 125 00:11:42,320 --> 00:11:47,000 Speaker 2: had different clothes, you had different inventions, but the day 126 00:11:47,200 --> 00:11:50,240 Speaker 2: looked to the people that were alive in exactly as 127 00:11:50,240 --> 00:11:53,040 Speaker 2: it looks right now. The colors looked exactly as they looked. 128 00:11:53,400 --> 00:11:57,120 Speaker 2: They had their own contexts for humor, their own context 129 00:11:57,280 --> 00:12:01,680 Speaker 2: for belief, for consciousness, and whatever time they were, and 130 00:12:01,720 --> 00:12:04,719 Speaker 2: it was the most advanced for the time that they 131 00:12:04,720 --> 00:12:07,959 Speaker 2: were in. And so as a child all the way 132 00:12:07,960 --> 00:12:12,520 Speaker 2: through now, I just always wonder how people felt as 133 00:12:12,640 --> 00:12:16,480 Speaker 2: history was happening, especially if they were able to see 134 00:12:16,520 --> 00:12:21,680 Speaker 2: ahead of themselves. And I think about that a lot 135 00:12:22,480 --> 00:12:25,520 Speaker 2: now in this moment, because what are we watching the 136 00:12:25,559 --> 00:12:34,600 Speaker 2: beginning stages of I'm really fascinated by generations, and so 137 00:12:34,960 --> 00:12:37,920 Speaker 2: I think about my son's generation a lot, Generation Alpha, 138 00:12:37,960 --> 00:12:41,320 Speaker 2: and since he was born really before, there were a 139 00:12:41,360 --> 00:12:44,720 Speaker 2: lot of predictions from social scientists. I was already looking 140 00:12:44,760 --> 00:12:47,160 Speaker 2: me up and I asked AI a bunch of questions 141 00:12:47,160 --> 00:12:51,479 Speaker 2: about it, like, I'm fascinated by how we operate generationally 142 00:12:51,559 --> 00:12:53,920 Speaker 2: and how different that makes us and how different that 143 00:12:53,960 --> 00:12:58,720 Speaker 2: makes society. One of the predictions that you see about 144 00:12:58,840 --> 00:13:06,480 Speaker 2: Generation Alpha is you see how the forecasting a lot 145 00:13:06,559 --> 00:13:13,760 Speaker 2: of it is around how almost tribal society has the 146 00:13:13,760 --> 00:13:17,120 Speaker 2: potential to become in that generation, how they'll really be 147 00:13:17,320 --> 00:13:20,840 Speaker 2: spreading out into other spaces that we haven't really gone 148 00:13:20,880 --> 00:13:24,800 Speaker 2: into before. They're parts of the country and just building 149 00:13:24,880 --> 00:13:30,600 Speaker 2: structures and systems for themselves, but especially in a non 150 00:13:30,840 --> 00:13:36,160 Speaker 2: kind of performative way, in a non zeitgeisty way, in 151 00:13:36,200 --> 00:13:42,360 Speaker 2: a non societal pressured kind of way, like they are 152 00:13:43,720 --> 00:13:47,360 Speaker 2: recreating what it means to be society and community. And 153 00:13:47,400 --> 00:13:50,200 Speaker 2: it seems like in order to do that, you'd have 154 00:13:50,280 --> 00:13:53,800 Speaker 2: to get back into a system that wasn't regulated by 155 00:13:54,679 --> 00:13:59,680 Speaker 2: one big governmental system. So in the early reading of 156 00:13:59,760 --> 00:14:03,720 Speaker 2: that over the last couple of years, and the way 157 00:14:03,800 --> 00:14:06,520 Speaker 2: that there is going to be this hyperindependence and this 158 00:14:06,679 --> 00:14:13,560 Speaker 2: real pull away from collective belief, if that's what that 159 00:14:13,720 --> 00:14:18,040 Speaker 2: generation is going to be exploring in the next thirty 160 00:14:18,760 --> 00:14:23,800 Speaker 2: to eighty years, what has to happen to make that 161 00:14:23,840 --> 00:14:27,600 Speaker 2: their reality right? And I've been wondering that for a 162 00:14:27,640 --> 00:14:31,600 Speaker 2: few years. What has to happen to make that the 163 00:14:31,640 --> 00:14:38,240 Speaker 2: way their childhood, adolescent and early adult life unfolds, which 164 00:14:38,280 --> 00:14:41,720 Speaker 2: is how society shifts right, How their core beliefs are formed, 165 00:14:42,160 --> 00:14:44,600 Speaker 2: how they are able to learn, how they're able to 166 00:14:44,840 --> 00:14:51,080 Speaker 2: enter society and take root as young adults. That's how 167 00:14:51,120 --> 00:14:53,880 Speaker 2: those things come to pass. And so I've wondered over 168 00:14:53,920 --> 00:14:55,440 Speaker 2: the last couple of years, how. 169 00:14:55,280 --> 00:14:57,760 Speaker 1: Does that become so? How does that become so? 170 00:15:00,800 --> 00:15:03,680 Speaker 2: And looking at the way things are unfolding now, looking 171 00:15:03,720 --> 00:15:07,800 Speaker 2: at the way the map is spread with red and blue, 172 00:15:07,960 --> 00:15:15,440 Speaker 2: and it seems like this is how that starts to happen. 173 00:15:18,280 --> 00:15:24,240 Speaker 2: And believing that God has divinely designed so much of 174 00:15:24,280 --> 00:15:30,000 Speaker 2: what this co created experience of being alive is. I 175 00:15:30,040 --> 00:15:32,400 Speaker 2: think where I draw faith in this moment is I 176 00:15:32,440 --> 00:15:38,560 Speaker 2: also have to trust that it is all by design, 177 00:15:39,320 --> 00:15:44,720 Speaker 2: that there is a reason for how things have to unfold. 178 00:15:49,680 --> 00:15:50,120 Speaker 1: Deeply. 179 00:15:54,280 --> 00:15:58,320 Speaker 2: And I let a few ig lives the day of 180 00:15:59,000 --> 00:16:03,480 Speaker 2: the election to just offer some support and some soft space. 181 00:16:03,640 --> 00:16:09,480 Speaker 2: But one of the things I talked about a lot 182 00:16:09,520 --> 00:16:16,640 Speaker 2: on that IG Live meditation was we have survived everything 183 00:16:17,040 --> 00:16:21,240 Speaker 2: before this exact moment, right, one hundred percent of the 184 00:16:21,280 --> 00:16:24,240 Speaker 2: things you have been through, one hundred percent of your 185 00:16:24,320 --> 00:16:28,440 Speaker 2: worst days, your most anxiety filled days, your most fear 186 00:16:28,520 --> 00:16:35,920 Speaker 2: based days, have been survived. When you look at the 187 00:16:36,040 --> 00:16:39,840 Speaker 2: score of human history so far, right, when you look 188 00:16:40,040 --> 00:16:47,040 Speaker 2: at all of the things as a species we've gone 189 00:16:47,040 --> 00:16:52,640 Speaker 2: through since inception, So that's like, you know, hundreds of 190 00:16:52,640 --> 00:16:54,880 Speaker 2: millions of years as a planet. We don't know how 191 00:16:54,920 --> 00:16:57,360 Speaker 2: many times we've all done this dance. The planet has 192 00:16:57,400 --> 00:17:02,200 Speaker 2: been wiped out so many times, but at least in 193 00:17:02,240 --> 00:17:08,320 Speaker 2: the last few hundred years, there's been so many unfathomable circumstances. 194 00:17:09,119 --> 00:17:19,200 Speaker 2: There's been genocides, there's been huge wars, global wars, world wars, 195 00:17:20,800 --> 00:17:30,720 Speaker 2: civil wars. We have had great plagues many times. When 196 00:17:30,760 --> 00:17:33,359 Speaker 2: I think back even to four years ago doing the 197 00:17:33,400 --> 00:17:39,439 Speaker 2: election series Equanimity twenty twenty with deepok, in that moment, 198 00:17:39,760 --> 00:17:43,680 Speaker 2: we were in global lockdown, we were in the pandemic 199 00:17:44,480 --> 00:17:48,840 Speaker 2: in an election, and it felt like the absolute worst 200 00:17:48,880 --> 00:17:53,000 Speaker 2: time any of us could fathom. Then in many ways, 201 00:17:53,040 --> 00:17:56,280 Speaker 2: it was so unknown that so many fears for so 202 00:17:56,400 --> 00:18:01,320 Speaker 2: many were that it wasn't survival. Right. Do you remember 203 00:18:01,359 --> 00:18:05,960 Speaker 2: how that felt when we first learned of COVID and 204 00:18:06,040 --> 00:18:10,879 Speaker 2: the idea of getting it, the ways we were approaching life, 205 00:18:11,000 --> 00:18:15,399 Speaker 2: our families, ourselves that first election, remember back to the 206 00:18:15,440 --> 00:18:29,320 Speaker 2: twenty sixteen election. The pendulum always swings. The pendulum always 207 00:18:29,400 --> 00:18:36,040 Speaker 2: swings back and forth. Big gains, big losses, big gains, 208 00:18:36,160 --> 00:18:40,360 Speaker 2: big losses. We learn, we forget, we learn, we forget, 209 00:18:40,520 --> 00:18:44,800 Speaker 2: we learn, we forget. This is what it is to 210 00:18:44,840 --> 00:18:48,119 Speaker 2: be alive, This is what it is to be alive. 211 00:18:50,960 --> 00:18:56,320 Speaker 2: I have no solutions this episode, y'all. There's no solutions 212 00:18:56,359 --> 00:18:58,440 Speaker 2: to be had for any of this right. We can't 213 00:18:58,480 --> 00:19:02,200 Speaker 2: tip in, trick and hack our way out of these 214 00:19:02,280 --> 00:19:06,960 Speaker 2: uncomfortable feelings. We are being forced to bear witness, bear 215 00:19:07,000 --> 00:19:12,960 Speaker 2: witness to it all, bear witness to what is bear 216 00:19:13,080 --> 00:19:16,800 Speaker 2: witness even outside of the political landscape. 217 00:19:16,200 --> 00:19:16,840 Speaker 1: To just. 218 00:19:20,600 --> 00:19:24,600 Speaker 2: The human pains and discomforts that are so present on 219 00:19:24,640 --> 00:19:35,600 Speaker 2: the planet right now, so it's survivable. I pray we 220 00:19:35,760 --> 00:19:43,040 Speaker 2: each allow our hearts to deeply remember the fortitude and 221 00:19:43,119 --> 00:19:49,919 Speaker 2: the endurance that exists within each of us. The fortitude 222 00:19:50,320 --> 00:19:55,920 Speaker 2: be endurance that we have moved through life with every 223 00:19:56,160 --> 00:20:10,320 Speaker 2: single time it has all seemed overwhelming, impossible, confusing, disappointing. 224 00:20:17,440 --> 00:20:18,120 Speaker 1: That's going to be. 225 00:20:18,119 --> 00:20:25,880 Speaker 2: Present with many of us for a while, the disappointment 226 00:20:28,359 --> 00:20:33,880 Speaker 2: that we really are here having vastly different experiences from 227 00:20:33,880 --> 00:20:39,280 Speaker 2: one another, while still having a shared experience. Some of 228 00:20:39,359 --> 00:20:43,399 Speaker 2: the stats and the data that has come out so 229 00:20:43,600 --> 00:20:53,680 Speaker 2: far has really shown that black women and black men 230 00:20:54,880 --> 00:21:00,800 Speaker 2: carried this election by far, by far, by. 231 00:21:00,640 --> 00:21:13,159 Speaker 3: Far, overworked by far, by far, by far, highest percentage 232 00:21:13,200 --> 00:21:21,919 Speaker 3: of turnout, highest percentage of voters, highest percentage against Trump, 233 00:21:25,800 --> 00:21:30,000 Speaker 3: and all the numbers, and so many other demos. 234 00:21:32,240 --> 00:21:50,840 Speaker 2: Were the exact opposite. I wonder, I wonder how this 235 00:21:50,920 --> 00:21:54,320 Speaker 2: is going to unfold in our homes, you know, in 236 00:21:54,320 --> 00:21:58,359 Speaker 2: the twenty sixteen election, with so many of us knew 237 00:21:58,480 --> 00:22:02,760 Speaker 2: existed for so long, these great divides, these very different 238 00:22:03,640 --> 00:22:10,000 Speaker 2: points of access, these different lived experiences, this complex trauma 239 00:22:10,359 --> 00:22:14,280 Speaker 2: that has been brewing and brewing and brewing for centuries. 240 00:22:17,480 --> 00:22:25,160 Speaker 2: That was the clear, honest look at what was true. 241 00:22:25,359 --> 00:22:27,800 Speaker 2: This year takes it to the next level. This year 242 00:22:27,880 --> 00:22:32,399 Speaker 2: deepens that understanding. This year lets us know not just 243 00:22:32,480 --> 00:22:38,240 Speaker 2: how deep those roots are, but how forward moving into 244 00:22:38,280 --> 00:22:41,720 Speaker 2: the future they are. I think in twenty sixteen we 245 00:22:41,720 --> 00:22:46,399 Speaker 2: were looking at those roots as the past, as the 246 00:22:46,480 --> 00:22:51,600 Speaker 2: generations that would be, you know, continuing to age and 247 00:22:51,720 --> 00:22:57,960 Speaker 2: leave the earth. And this year we see that it's 248 00:22:58,000 --> 00:23:00,800 Speaker 2: also the future. And how easy it is to pass 249 00:23:00,840 --> 00:23:05,400 Speaker 2: it down, how easy it is to rewrite history, how 250 00:23:05,440 --> 00:23:16,120 Speaker 2: easy it is to forget for so so many. There's 251 00:23:16,200 --> 00:23:25,560 Speaker 2: grief there, right, there's grief there. It's a regenerating population 252 00:23:26,760 --> 00:23:36,080 Speaker 2: of belief, it's a regenerating population of behavior. We got 253 00:23:36,080 --> 00:23:38,679 Speaker 2: to think about that, We got to really look at that. 254 00:23:39,920 --> 00:23:43,080 Speaker 2: Something I have been saying since twenty sixteen is that 255 00:23:44,680 --> 00:23:48,800 Speaker 2: we should have always been approaching politics from a mental 256 00:23:48,840 --> 00:23:55,199 Speaker 2: health capacity. We should have always been studying the narcissism, 257 00:23:56,280 --> 00:24:02,520 Speaker 2: the sociopathy, of the mentality of this as its own 258 00:24:03,160 --> 00:24:11,080 Speaker 2: living being, consciousness, system of thought, system of belief. It's 259 00:24:11,119 --> 00:24:31,040 Speaker 2: more apparent now than ever. I'm letting this silence hold 260 00:24:31,119 --> 00:24:33,399 Speaker 2: us a little bit. And I know this is an 261 00:24:33,440 --> 00:24:36,320 Speaker 2: audio format. I know this is a video format for 262 00:24:36,359 --> 00:24:39,359 Speaker 2: those watching, and we're not really used to that. I 263 00:24:39,440 --> 00:24:43,760 Speaker 2: come from a radio and TV background, and our number 264 00:24:43,800 --> 00:24:46,320 Speaker 2: one rule was no dead air, right. 265 00:24:46,440 --> 00:24:47,320 Speaker 1: That's the thing. 266 00:24:48,840 --> 00:24:51,959 Speaker 2: That could get you fined, could get you into big trouble, 267 00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:54,600 Speaker 2: could get you fired if there was even a second 268 00:24:54,760 --> 00:25:00,159 Speaker 2: that you weren't filling the space with noise. Obviously, as 269 00:25:00,160 --> 00:25:03,840 Speaker 2: a meditator, I know the complete opposite to be true. 270 00:25:05,520 --> 00:25:08,600 Speaker 2: But I'm letting these gaps of silence stay in this 271 00:25:08,680 --> 00:25:13,520 Speaker 2: episode because we need this space, we need a hold 272 00:25:13,560 --> 00:25:18,520 Speaker 2: in it. I'm processing thoughts in real time, I'm processing feelings. 273 00:25:20,160 --> 00:25:21,960 Speaker 2: I'm being alive right now with. 274 00:25:21,800 --> 00:25:22,240 Speaker 1: You in this. 275 00:25:23,160 --> 00:25:28,879 Speaker 2: I know you may be listening to this having the 276 00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:34,359 Speaker 2: same cadence of tick tick booms so so fast. The 277 00:25:34,400 --> 00:25:38,479 Speaker 2: way our thoughts are racing right the way. We're beginning 278 00:25:38,520 --> 00:25:40,960 Speaker 2: to build the bridges of what does this actually mean 279 00:25:48,560 --> 00:25:50,760 Speaker 2: so we can have these gaps to let that be. 280 00:25:52,680 --> 00:25:56,440 Speaker 2: I'm honored to be here in this moment today with you, 281 00:25:57,320 --> 00:26:01,000 Speaker 2: in the unknowing and the fact they're not a single 282 00:26:01,040 --> 00:26:04,520 Speaker 2: one of us has any answers. I deeply know that 283 00:26:04,560 --> 00:26:07,879 Speaker 2: to be true about everything in general. But the shell 284 00:26:08,160 --> 00:26:16,280 Speaker 2: right now this day may feel heavy. There may be grief, 285 00:26:17,119 --> 00:26:22,600 Speaker 2: there may be frustration, there may be fear. There's a 286 00:26:22,640 --> 00:26:25,960 Speaker 2: heaviness that's also present in a season that requires a 287 00:26:25,960 --> 00:26:29,200 Speaker 2: lot of us, a lot of exposure to family, a 288 00:26:29,280 --> 00:26:33,760 Speaker 2: lot of past experiences coming up, a lot of unresolved 289 00:26:33,840 --> 00:26:47,440 Speaker 2: issues being skated around or confronted or just seen. All 290 00:26:47,480 --> 00:26:56,760 Speaker 2: we can do is bas acknowledge the reality of what is. 291 00:26:57,840 --> 00:27:00,240 Speaker 2: We have to be honest, and I think I think 292 00:27:00,240 --> 00:27:04,119 Speaker 2: that this is a really also powerful call to action. 293 00:27:04,760 --> 00:27:08,879 Speaker 2: Abou's something we spend all last month exploring personal integrity, 294 00:27:10,440 --> 00:27:17,960 Speaker 2: personal trust, building your intuition, building your discernment, taking care 295 00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:21,639 Speaker 2: of your individual body and health so you are not 296 00:27:21,920 --> 00:27:28,400 Speaker 2: weathered by this world because none of this outside stuff 297 00:27:28,920 --> 00:27:34,200 Speaker 2: will ever cease, none of it. If it's not politics, 298 00:27:34,760 --> 00:27:38,320 Speaker 2: then it's personal family trauma. If it's not personal family trauma, 299 00:27:38,960 --> 00:27:46,560 Speaker 2: it's some other system of challenge. It's what this is. 300 00:27:48,640 --> 00:27:54,720 Speaker 2: So we have to devote to our own goodness, to 301 00:27:54,760 --> 00:27:59,520 Speaker 2: our own health as best we can. Options to that 302 00:27:59,800 --> 00:28:03,400 Speaker 2: may be more limited depending on where you live. One 303 00:28:03,440 --> 00:28:05,200 Speaker 2: of the thoughts that came up for me as well 304 00:28:05,440 --> 00:28:14,919 Speaker 2: was just recognizing, at least in this moment, that I 305 00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:21,440 Speaker 2: do feel, honestly an extra layer of safety living in California, 306 00:28:21,960 --> 00:28:33,880 Speaker 2: living in Los Angeles, living in a blue state, and 307 00:28:33,920 --> 00:28:39,560 Speaker 2: it's very valid if you live somewhere else for there 308 00:28:39,600 --> 00:28:42,760 Speaker 2: to be anxiety present about the unknown of what this 309 00:28:42,880 --> 00:28:46,960 Speaker 2: means on a state level, all of it is valid. 310 00:28:48,400 --> 00:28:53,560 Speaker 2: All we can do in this moment is bear witness 311 00:28:54,680 --> 00:29:00,680 Speaker 2: as best we can, and show for our physical bodies 312 00:29:01,320 --> 00:29:13,360 Speaker 2: as best we can, and have hope as best we can. 313 00:29:14,080 --> 00:29:17,400 Speaker 2: There is still joy in this world. There is still 314 00:29:17,800 --> 00:29:25,880 Speaker 2: profound beauty in this world. There is so much love 315 00:29:27,360 --> 00:29:33,280 Speaker 2: in this world, and days like this commit me even 316 00:29:33,480 --> 00:29:40,360 Speaker 2: more fully to the depth of that understanding. It keeps 317 00:29:40,400 --> 00:29:44,200 Speaker 2: me even more angered into my own personal rituals and 318 00:29:44,280 --> 00:29:49,560 Speaker 2: to creating delight between myself and my life even privately, 319 00:29:49,800 --> 00:29:51,680 Speaker 2: in a way that others may not be able to 320 00:29:51,720 --> 00:29:57,959 Speaker 2: see or know. But fanning your flames for yourself it 321 00:29:58,000 --> 00:30:01,920 Speaker 2: helps keep us here, It helps keep us purposeful, It 322 00:30:01,960 --> 00:30:05,840 Speaker 2: helps keep us serving. And I found that in moments 323 00:30:05,920 --> 00:30:08,400 Speaker 2: like this, the best thing that we can do is 324 00:30:08,480 --> 00:30:12,240 Speaker 2: just try to serve. If you need the day, take it. 325 00:30:12,880 --> 00:30:17,400 Speaker 2: If you need a cry, cry, if you need a scream, scream, 326 00:30:18,120 --> 00:30:20,880 Speaker 2: do it for as long as you need. But you 327 00:30:20,920 --> 00:30:25,120 Speaker 2: gotta get up. You gotta get up, You gotta get up, 328 00:30:26,000 --> 00:30:32,680 Speaker 2: you gotta keep going, you will keep going. Feel the feeling. 329 00:30:34,760 --> 00:30:39,320 Speaker 2: It is present, it is valid, it's the reality of 330 00:30:39,360 --> 00:30:43,720 Speaker 2: what is. And we have to keep our discernment sharp, 331 00:30:44,720 --> 00:30:47,080 Speaker 2: and we have to stay rooted in the present moment 332 00:30:47,240 --> 00:30:51,640 Speaker 2: like our lives depend on it, because they do. But 333 00:30:51,680 --> 00:30:55,680 Speaker 2: there is love here, there is joy, there is hope, 334 00:30:56,840 --> 00:31:03,040 Speaker 2: there is beauty in this world. There's opportunity, there's potential, 335 00:31:08,240 --> 00:31:14,000 Speaker 2: and our hearts will feel full again they always do. 336 00:31:16,720 --> 00:31:20,240 Speaker 2: Let's take a couple of deep breaths here together. You 337 00:31:20,360 --> 00:31:22,680 Speaker 2: might want to place one hand over your heart that 338 00:31:22,720 --> 00:31:27,080 Speaker 2: can feel really supportive. You might want to place another 339 00:31:27,120 --> 00:31:29,280 Speaker 2: hand right on your core. 340 00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:32,120 Speaker 1: Take a deep breath in. 341 00:31:36,440 --> 00:31:37,760 Speaker 3: And release. 342 00:31:42,120 --> 00:31:49,160 Speaker 1: De Breathen and release. 343 00:31:53,800 --> 00:31:55,520 Speaker 3: De breathen. 344 00:31:58,760 --> 00:32:00,480 Speaker 1: And reallyase. 345 00:32:06,520 --> 00:32:13,760 Speaker 2: Spend time holding your heart today. Let your hand just 346 00:32:14,080 --> 00:32:18,480 Speaker 2: pat your heart when you need it. Remind yourself of 347 00:32:18,520 --> 00:32:48,800 Speaker 2: the feeling of your own heartbeat. We live to fight 348 00:32:48,840 --> 00:32:51,840 Speaker 2: another day, We live to love another day. 349 00:32:52,360 --> 00:32:57,440 Speaker 1: God bless you big love, no mistake. 350 00:33:04,200 --> 00:33:08,000 Speaker 2: The content presented on Deeply Well serves solely for educational 351 00:33:08,080 --> 00:33:11,800 Speaker 2: and informational purposes. It should not be considered a replacement 352 00:33:11,880 --> 00:33:15,920 Speaker 2: for personalized medical or mental health guidance and does not 353 00:33:16,080 --> 00:33:21,000 Speaker 2: constitute a provider patient relationship. As always, it is advisable 354 00:33:21,080 --> 00:33:24,440 Speaker 2: to consult with your healthcare provider or health team for 355 00:33:24,640 --> 00:33:28,040 Speaker 2: any specific concerns or questions. 356 00:33:27,400 --> 00:33:28,120 Speaker 1: That you may have. 357 00:33:29,200 --> 00:33:32,640 Speaker 2: Connect with me on social at Debbie Brown. 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