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Speaker 2: this particular podcast now today because I mentioned monkey Brain,
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Speaker 2: We've got multiple jobs, we do multiple podcasts, everything else.
Speaker 2: We're going to talk to Tom Cronan from Sydney, who
Speaker 2: is a meditation coach. Oh, this is exciting, this is
Speaker 2: very exciting. This guy's got so many followers as well.
Speaker 2: He've been researching him all day and he's absolutely fascinating.
Speaker 5: He really is.
Speaker 2: So he had a really different career and then got
Speaker 2: into meditation and now he teaches it around the world.
Speaker 2: So this will be really great and hopefully you can
Speaker 2: give us some tips on how to just do some
Speaker 2: simple meditations to get started, just.
Speaker 3: To start and then you know, go from there.
Speaker 4: And I always believe to you know, to take that
Speaker 4: at your own paste and sort of get upset that
Speaker 4: maybe you can't fall into a certain level at a
Speaker 4: certain time. Yeah, you just take it at your own pace,
Speaker 4: because you know, that's the last thing we're trying to
Speaker 4: do meditation because we're stressed out.
Speaker 3: We don't want to stress out. We can't do meditation.
Speaker 1: Well that's it. Yeah, you're stressing out whilst doing it.
Speaker 1: Going at my doing it right?
Speaker 2: Everyone's like remember those group meditations used to do at
Speaker 2: school and you all line your back and they'd be like, okay,
Speaker 2: visualize a cloud, and I'll be.
Speaker 1: Like, what kind of cloud? Is it gray? Or is
Speaker 1: it white? Or is it big?
Speaker 2: I hang it, it looks like a fluffy dog. I'm not
Speaker 2: sure am I doing this right? Did you say cloud
Speaker 2: or clown?
Speaker 3: Am I not on the cloud?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Or am I?
Speaker 1: What am I doing?
Speaker 3: Monkey Magic Pigsy, I love Funky Man.
Speaker 2: All right, look, goodness, we've completely anyway, let's have a
Speaker 2: chat with Tom.
Speaker 1: Hello. Tom, thank you so much for joining.
Speaker 5: Us, Thanks for inviting me along, for doing this conversation today.
Speaker 2: You have a massive amount of followers, You're a keynote speaker,
Speaker 2: you are a meditation coach and everything else.
Speaker 1: Let's get back to how this started for you.
Speaker 2: Was around about nineteen ninety five, I think it is
Speaker 2: or ninety six where you found meditation.
Speaker 5: Yeah. Absolutely, I was entering into what some people would
Speaker 5: call a dark knight of the soul. And that was
Speaker 5: after ten years of being a wolf of Wolf of
Speaker 5: Wall Street style broker on a trading room floor. So
Speaker 5: I started the same year as Jordan Belfort, the Wolf
Speaker 5: of Wall Street in nineteen eighty seven, when I was
Speaker 5: only young. I was nineteen, and I just got swept
Speaker 5: along by the current of what life was like on
Speaker 5: a trading room floor back in the late eighties early nineties,
Speaker 5: and so it was very fast, very hectic, a lot
Speaker 5: of partying, drinking lard late nights, and this culminated eventually
Speaker 5: as I started sort of getting wear and tear on
Speaker 5: my nervous system, my mind and my body. And then
Speaker 5: this kind of continued to culminate with the I guess,
Speaker 5: the poor lifestyle choices, and eventually in ninety ninety six
Speaker 5: I went into a really dark place, sort of suicide
Speaker 5: ideation and really deep depression and paic attacks and anxiety,
Speaker 5: and I was sent to psychiatrists and doctors and put
Speaker 5: on medication. But I came across meditation at that time,
Speaker 5: and that was a really pivotal moment in my life,
Speaker 5: where not just any meditation, because I tried a few techniques,
Speaker 5: but when I found this particular style was a deep
Speaker 5: transcending style of meditation otherwise known as Vedic meditation, that
Speaker 5: I really saw significant changes in my life. And that
Speaker 5: was a big turning point in my life.
Speaker 2: Huge, Absolutely, that energy must have been exhausting leading up
Speaker 2: to that, and then you know the meditation being the
Speaker 2: drug almost to help you through that. Different types of
Speaker 2: meditation as well. I know you mentioned that, how is
Speaker 2: this one different?
Speaker 5: Yeah, this is what we call transcending. So I put
Speaker 5: meditation into kind of four main categories. So we've got
Speaker 5: ones where we're concentrating, and we're focusing on trying to
Speaker 5: empty the mind of thoughts or trying to focus on
Speaker 5: the breath or zero the attention into one single point,
Speaker 5: which is very, very difficult, particularly in our world today
Speaker 5: with the amount of information flow, and it's something that's
Speaker 5: actually quite unpleasant. It's not very enjoyable to do because
Speaker 5: you're using a lot of resistance and force. Then we've
Speaker 5: got things like visualizations what I call contemplation meditation. So
Speaker 5: these ones we're thinking, but we're thinking about Chuckra's realigning
Speaker 5: or gratitude or asing some future outcome. This one is
Speaker 5: surface level because we're still thinking and we're thinking about
Speaker 5: the world around us and how we can make our
Speaker 5: world better because then we want to feel good. Nothing
Speaker 5: wrong with that. I still do them, but it's just
Speaker 5: not a deep meditation. Then we've got chanting meditations where
Speaker 5: we might be doing some chanting after yoga, where we're
Speaker 5: saying something out loud. Again, we're not going that deep,
Speaker 5: and it's still a beautiful practice, but just not a
Speaker 5: deep meditation. And then I found these deep meditations where
Speaker 5: we use a particular sound or resonance called mantras, and
Speaker 5: that takes the mind beyond. We transcend beyond the idea
Speaker 5: of your own existence and your own identity. We transcend thoughts, transcend, emotions,
Speaker 5: transcend even the limit of staying in occupying this physical
Speaker 5: apparatus called our body, and we go into what we
Speaker 5: call the void or an unbounded spaciousness, which is really
Speaker 5: deeply RESTful and deeply blessful.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: Just thinking Michelle as a psychic, and you know you
Speaker 2: have things coming into your mind, and your mind is
Speaker 2: very unique. Having been a friend of yours for many years,
Speaker 2: places you never know what you're going to get, Tom,
Speaker 2: do you can you meditate or can you do you
Speaker 2: have to turn off your psychic switch and you can
Speaker 2: actually chill.
Speaker 4: I say yes, and I say no, okay that because
Speaker 4: it's kind of like I can't be hypnotized either, which
Speaker 4: I found quite I wanted to be hypnotized. I've been
Speaker 4: hypnotized three or four times for smoking. Couldn't be hypnotized
Speaker 4: to smoke. It was only because I promised my daughter
Speaker 4: that i'd give up on her twelfth birthday that I
Speaker 4: actually Then she came out and said, hey, you've got
Speaker 4: to realize how powerful the mind is. Then, because I
Speaker 4: was just swept. Yeah, I have to do it for her,
Speaker 4: so I haven't done it. But I can meditate to
Speaker 4: a certain point and then I find that I fall asleep,
Speaker 4: so I just go into that type of thing. But yeah, no,
Speaker 4: I find it quite difficult. I think they call it
Speaker 4: the monkey mind. I prefer just to just let all
Speaker 4: my thoughts go with without doing anything. Like you know
Speaker 4: how they do the guided meditations. I just can't do
Speaker 4: guided meditations. I can do the meditations where I just
Speaker 4: lay on the earth and just let everything go and
Speaker 4: I just imagine I'm part of the earth.
Speaker 3: That's my type of meditation.
Speaker 4: And I just feel the sun coming through here and
Speaker 4: I just imagine my Sharkra's being online.
Speaker 3: But that's kind of as far as I can go
Speaker 3: with that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, But in saying that I do astro travel, now,
Speaker 4: I don't know how I do that. I blocked it
Speaker 4: for a long long time. But that's just something that
Speaker 4: I can do.
Speaker 5: Wow, the all beautiful meditations and all meditations are going
Speaker 5: to play some role of some sort to make our
Speaker 5: lives better. One thing we noticed with most meditation is
Speaker 5: there's still an eye high astral travel. I do this meditation,
Speaker 5: I feel this when I'm meditating, So in transcendence, the
Speaker 5: one thing where going beyond is the eye. There's no
Speaker 5: more eye, there's no more duality. So it's a very
Speaker 5: accessible pathway to discover what is ultimately fundamental truth that
Speaker 5: there's this reality at atle Field beyond the world of
Speaker 5: form and phenomenon and duality. That's the relationship ther eyes
Speaker 5: having with the world around it. I love that.
Speaker 4: And how would be the best sort of thing, quick
Speaker 4: way that you would suggest people to do that?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, there's really not many pathways that will
Speaker 5: get us into such a profound relinquishing of the identity.
Speaker 5: I believe there are certain states that I've certainly experienced
Speaker 5: at times myself using breath work. I've also had the
Speaker 5: experience of plant medicine, and of course I meditate every
Speaker 5: day and have this experience. I just meditated literally ten
Speaker 5: minutes ago deep in that space as well. So my
Speaker 5: apologies about that, and so the best and my successful
Speaker 5: ways using this vading meditation practice, because I can be
Speaker 5: on a trading room floor, go to the boardroom, drop
Speaker 5: into transcendence, and he come out of the trading room floor,
Speaker 5: go back on out of the boardroom, and go back
Speaker 5: onto the trading roo floor. But I couldn't do that.
Speaker 5: If I did plan medicine breath work, you might be
Speaker 5: able to do that, but you'd need a little bit
Speaker 5: of time to integrate the experience. But there's something about
Speaker 5: that dear excitement of the mind and the nervous system,
Speaker 5: because breath work is still quite activating, yeah, an activation process,
Speaker 5: whereas this meditation's a deer activating. We're going into the quiet.
Speaker 1: So you're still doing the broker stuff as well, it seems.
Speaker 5: For sixteen more years after yeah, wow, sixteen years just
Speaker 5: taking the drugs its meditating.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, that's amazing how he went out and
Speaker 2: figured out what was happening out in the world and
Speaker 2: came back in and went, oh, I.
Speaker 1: Know what the word?
Speaker 2: Yeah, just I find it amazing that you or combining
Speaker 2: those two, just knowing the intensity of that. So now
Speaker 2: to meditate, that's kind of your your so to slip
Speaker 2: out and slip back in as well.
Speaker 1: That seems fascinating because I can just there's.
Speaker 4: Probably a lot of practice on his part. I mean,
Speaker 4: you know, I don't think that if you're just new
Speaker 4: to it you could do that. I think it does
Speaker 4: take practice to do that, to get out of the
Speaker 4: first stages of the monkey mind and things like you
Speaker 4: were talking about.
Speaker 5: Yeah, most students will drop into those quiet states within
Speaker 5: the first couple of days of me training them. So
Speaker 5: most students will experience some degree of transcendence in that
Speaker 5: first few sessions. What's so powerful about using this technique
Speaker 5: is that it's not about running away from the world.
Speaker 5: Oh now I'm meditating, so I can't go into an
Speaker 5: intense environment. In actual fact, we find cells relishing the
Speaker 5: opportunity to go into those intense environments because we start
Speaker 5: to cultivate a state of equanimity. In Sanskrit, it's called
Speaker 5: ta ticture, which means to be unruffled by circumstances in life.
Speaker 5: It's a really nice way to sort of put this
Speaker 5: to a test to reach that level of sovereignty where
Speaker 5: my state is owned by me. I've cultivated a state
Speaker 5: of inner peace, and the world's fluctuations, the world turbulence
Speaker 5: around me isn't having this ruffled effect on my state,
Speaker 5: and so it means that we're actually more capable. And
Speaker 5: this is something why I work with a lot of
Speaker 5: corporations now. Problem in the staff reduce that stress response,
Speaker 5: reduce that alastatic load so they can actually reach peak performance.
Speaker 3: So that would help. That would be something that would
Speaker 3: be good for PMS.
Speaker 4: It would be Now we keep getting a women coming in,
Speaker 4: we do what's the spells for this? And we do
Speaker 4: all that type of thing, and I always say meditation, Yeah,
Speaker 4: I think that this is probably a better form of that.
Speaker 2: And as well, the mantras something that I know that
Speaker 2: I used, and particularly with anxiety and things like that.
Speaker 2: Is it wrong to ask how do we do this?
Speaker 2: Because it just sounds fascinating, It sounds like everyone needs it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, how do we start?
Speaker 5: Yes, Usually there's a process where we don't just give
Speaker 5: you the meditation, off you go, because it really underpins
Speaker 5: the practice itself is having a lot of knowledge. So
Speaker 5: the course is usually delivered over four ninety minute sessions,
Speaker 5: either on zoom or in person, and some teachers don't
Speaker 5: even teach on zoom. I teach on zoom and in
Speaker 5: person to give people around the world access to this
Speaker 5: beautiful five thousand year old practice. But ultimately what happens
Speaker 5: is the student will get a particular mantra or sound
Speaker 5: relevant to their age. When they're born and when they're
Speaker 5: learning the techniques, that will be how they are where
Speaker 5: they get I guess the receive the mantra, and then
Speaker 5: there will be a lot of knowledge over those four
Speaker 5: ninety minute sessions to sort of underpin and support their practice,
Speaker 5: give them a deeper understanding about how to optimize their meditation,
Speaker 5: how to understand why they're going to get certain releases
Speaker 5: out of their body as a result of the meditation,
Speaker 5: which will lead to a lot of thoughts or emotions
Speaker 5: arising or physiological sensations arising during the meditation. So there's
Speaker 5: a lot of knowledge that needs to come with the practice.
Speaker 5: So you wouldn't just say here's something you can go
Speaker 5: and do, off you go, see you later. It's really
Speaker 5: about supporting the student with not just the course itself,
Speaker 5: but ongoing supports. All my students get ongoing weekly support
Speaker 5: if they want it on a zoom call.
Speaker 4: And so would meditation also be a bit like the
Speaker 4: reiki where it's sort of like because you're sort of
Speaker 4: going through in your sort of healing the body without
Speaker 4: as well.
Speaker 3: So that's also something an added bonus and why.
Speaker 4: You probably need to talk to them afterwards because things
Speaker 4: are coming up that were maybe restricted or blocked within
Speaker 4: the body.
Speaker 5: Absolutely, it's really good that you pointed that out. Because
Speaker 5: the body is like a warehouse. It has all the
Speaker 5: stresses in it, and these are what we call in
Speaker 5: Sanskrit samscaras. These stresses just to continually compound and accumulate,
Speaker 5: and they can be lifetime stresses that we've experienced from
Speaker 5: the time we came out of the womb, so also
Speaker 5: inherited stresses that have come through from our ancestry, our
Speaker 5: parents and grad parents, and so our body is holding
Speaker 5: them in the physiology. And what happens is when we
Speaker 5: go into these dear excited states that occur in meditation,
Speaker 5: particularly deep meditations. Body's got a natural inclination and tendency
Speaker 5: to heal and optimize. So if it identifies and finds
Speaker 5: these stresses in the body, it will start to release
Speaker 5: them and clear them out of the system. And that
Speaker 5: releasing is usually showing up in some sort of sensations
Speaker 5: and it could be tears, it can be jolts, twitches, spasms,
Speaker 5: all sorts of physiological expressions that come with their releasing.
Speaker 3: That's really cool.
Speaker 2: Is it different for men and for women? Meditation, any
Speaker 2: form of meditation.
Speaker 5: Not that I've been aware of. And I've been using
Speaker 5: this for thirty years and pitching it for about fifteen
Speaker 5: and one thing, we've found that there's no difference between
Speaker 5: men and women as far as their experience of the meditation,
Speaker 5: whether they're going deeper or not. But yeah, I haven't
Speaker 5: been able to notice any differences with that.
Speaker 4: So is there something that you could say maybe for
Speaker 4: someone that's anxious and maybe about to have an anxiety
Speaker 4: attack or something like that, and they can't sort of
Speaker 4: switch in in or do any meditation becaus I haven't
Speaker 4: done it until they come to you. Is there any
Speaker 4: sort of mantra or little chant that you you say
Speaker 4: to yourself at least?
Speaker 5: Yeah, Look, there's definitely some things people can do if
Speaker 5: they're feeling overwhelmed or even just on a daily basis
Speaker 5: by listening to this. And the first thing, which is
Speaker 5: really simple, is to just bring the mind into center.
Speaker 5: So I'll give everyone just a simple walk away meditation
Speaker 5: that they can use. And this is if you're just
Speaker 5: having a hectic day, just pull over on the side
Speaker 5: of the road into a quiet street. Blood you can't
Speaker 5: do this practice, or you can just you know, find
Speaker 5: yourself on a park bench or on your lounge rim
Speaker 5: at home. But really, the first thing we do is
Speaker 5: we close our eyes, and that reduces the stimulation of
Speaker 5: the sensors. Ideal, if you've got noise canceling headphones or
Speaker 5: somewhere quiet, it reduces noise stimulations. So we're trying to
Speaker 5: reduce the stimulation for all five senses. And then we
Speaker 5: start to bring our attention to the breath moving through
Speaker 5: the nostrils. And what we'll find it as the breath
Speaker 5: moves in and out of the nostrils, it's this gentle,
Speaker 5: effortless ebb and flow. Don't force it, don't try. Your
Speaker 5: body knows what to do. It knows how to breathe
Speaker 5: trust the body. And then what you'll find is it
Speaker 5: moves in and out of the nostrils. You're going to
Speaker 5: bring all your attention to the cool skin around the
Speaker 5: rim of the nostril. And what we're going to do
Speaker 5: here is by doing this, is just going to focus
Speaker 5: on that one single point of the air brushing the
Speaker 5: moisture inside the nostril, slightly cooling the skin, and then
Speaker 5: we're going to just keep on that single point. Now,
Speaker 5: your mind will not enjoy this, so it will move away,
Speaker 5: it will drop away from that single post place and
Speaker 5: will go to other locations. But we're going to use
Speaker 5: a lot of force here, and by using a little
Speaker 5: bit of muscle flexing and keeping that mind on that
Speaker 5: single point, the whole nervous system, the mind and the
Speaker 5: physiology is going to start to de excite and calm
Speaker 5: down and become more orderly and cohesive. And that's really
Speaker 5: what we want in the body, a cohesive body. Wow, Michelle,
Speaker 5: and you could do that for five minutes, five ten minutes.
Speaker 1: Of How did it feel good?
Speaker 2: I was just straight at my nose, not look straight
Speaker 2: at you. You're not looking at the top of your nose.
Speaker 2: You're feeling it, feeling we feel to you know, a
Speaker 2: clown mate?
Speaker 1: What are you doing? Sorry? Tom, I'm gotta do you.
Speaker 1: I was like you to try, I would like you
Speaker 1: to try.
Speaker 3: I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it tonight.
Speaker 1: Okay, there, you got to do it.
Speaker 2: When it is a good time to do meditation, at
Speaker 2: the start of the day or the end of the
Speaker 2: day already time I recommend Yeah, that's.
Speaker 5: A good question. I generally recommend one in the morning,
Speaker 5: when when we wake up or after we've done sort
Speaker 5: of some sort of exercise in your morning routine, and
Speaker 5: then usually as we start fading throughout the day. So
Speaker 5: I just had my second meditation just about forty minutes ago,
Speaker 5: and that's when we're sort of reaching that sort of
Speaker 5: a little bit of a fade time. So anytime in
Speaker 5: the afternoon, is it, or before dinner time, or you
Speaker 5: could do it before better thing?
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's usually yeah, exactly the actual coffee. Yeah, okay.
Speaker 2: Outside mate, I'm working radio. It doesn't mean I'm kidding exactly. Well,
Speaker 2: I think that's been absolutely fascinating. I really want to
Speaker 2: have a look at this, and also I think it's
Speaker 2: so important for mental health and for stress, anxiety, everything
Speaker 2: like that. To just like you said that that phrase
Speaker 2: walk away. I liked that phrase being everything comes at
Speaker 2: you so much that if you just stop for two
Speaker 2: seconds and just let it settle.
Speaker 1: I think that's so important as well.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think you know, when we think about dada
Speaker 5: of physical health, part of physical health, would you do
Speaker 5: involve some sort of repetition, So it's either lifting a
Speaker 5: dumbbell repetitively, or walking repetitively, swimming repetitively, and the same
Speaker 5: thing would apply for mental health. If we wanted to
Speaker 5: have very good mental health, we would do something like
Speaker 5: the repetition of the mantra, or the rep petition of
Speaker 5: focusing on the breath. This repetition on a single thing
Speaker 5: is going to be so healthy for the mind because
Speaker 5: our mind is very scattered now in our world emails
Speaker 5: and doing you scrolling through feeds and constantly moving from
Speaker 5: thing to thing, like you said, the monkey mind. And
Speaker 5: so for really good mental health, I would really encourage
Speaker 5: people to think about a daily process of closing their eyes,
Speaker 5: sitting still somewhere and doing some form of repetition for
Speaker 5: the mind, and that would be the mantra. Learning with
Speaker 5: a really good teacher, I know a guy, you need to.
Speaker 3: Tell us where to find you find.
Speaker 1: You, do I know a.
Speaker 5: Or just doing your own breath that I've just given
Speaker 5: everyone for five or ten minutes. It's going to make
Speaker 5: a difference. If you just did that alone for five
Speaker 5: to ten minutes, it won't be comfortable, it won't be
Speaker 5: busy because the mind wants to look for all this
Speaker 5: entertaining things. But do something that's good for your mind,
Speaker 5: not what your mind wants.
Speaker 2: And kids as well, This would be great for kids,
Speaker 2: particularly learning at a young age to manage because I
Speaker 2: know how full on the kids' minds are. I'm watching
Speaker 2: my kids, you know, on TikTok on things like that.
Speaker 2: Everything's so quick, they never stop. It's every YouTube dah
Speaker 2: da dah dah. And this would be something that would
Speaker 2: be huge for them.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we're seeing extremely dire scenarios unfolding for the youth
Speaker 5: of the world. Now. The you know, kids these days
Speaker 5: at the ages of three and four given iPads an
Speaker 5: iPhones keep them quiet. And what we're really underestimating is
Speaker 5: these children's brains are still developing all the way up
Speaker 5: until the age of twenty four to twenty five, people
Speaker 5: haven't fully formed, and to be giving them that amount
Speaker 5: of information flow, particularly you know, twelve to eighteen year
Speaker 5: olds a really critical stay. The development it's going to
Speaker 5: already is having huge ramifications. And unfortunately, our approach to
Speaker 5: dealing with this, for most people are not to completely
Speaker 5: discourage the idea of this. But I don't think it's
Speaker 5: a great singular pathway to take is just medicate someone, Yeah,
Speaker 5: when we can really just look at really healthy alternatives,
Speaker 5: which is why don't we just give children at least
Speaker 5: less technology and more practice with meditation.
Speaker 1: Absolutely. All right, Tom, how do people find you?
Speaker 5: Instagram is a great place. I love connecting with people,
Speaker 5: so I answer all my message on Instagram.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we were very surprised that you actually replied to Michelle.
Speaker 1: We were very impressed.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's a beautiful, king wonderful community. And I like,
Speaker 5: you know, connecting with the community. I think it's an
Speaker 5: important part of the work that we do and that
Speaker 5: level of it authenticity and integrity. So my Instagram is
Speaker 5: Tom Cronin and my website is Tom cronan dot com.
Speaker 1: So very easy, wonderful, Tom, thank you so much. That
Speaker 1: was really great my pleasure.
Speaker 5: Thanks for sharing space and inviting me for an important
Speaker 5: conversation like this.
Speaker 2: Particularly with the kids as well. I think that's so important.
Speaker 2: Is amazing, all the best, Tom, Thanks so much for
Speaker 2: your time.
Speaker 5: Thanks dn oh likewise, futuo and thanks for listening. Everyone
Speaker 5: appreciate it.
Speaker 1: That was great. I'm going to try that and you
Speaker 1: said you're going to try it tonight.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Okay, let's see how we go. Remember the inside of
Speaker 1: your nose to Michelle on the outside. All right, let's
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Speaker 4: You're on full momentum, but a thoughtful pause midweek will
Speaker 4: help you make smarter ideas. So trust your intuition. Taurus,
Speaker 4: Comfort meets opportunity. You may feel pulled between staying in
Speaker 4: your safe zone and trying something new.
Speaker 3: Lean slightly towards the unfamiliar.
Speaker 4: It could bring a pleasant surprise, especially in your relationships. Gemini,
Speaker 4: your mind is buzzing with ideas, but not all of
Speaker 4: them need action right now. Prioritize what really excites you
Speaker 4: at the moment. A conversation later in the week will
Speaker 4: open doors that have felt shut before. Cancer emotions run
Speaker 4: a little deeper this week, but there's that's not a
Speaker 4: bad thing. In fact, use this as seidivity guide that
Speaker 4: can actually help you get weight off your shoulders. Someone
Speaker 4: close may need your support, so you may want to
Speaker 4: realize and spend a little bit of time with them. Leo,
Speaker 4: you're stepping into the spotlight moment, whether you've planned it
Speaker 4: or not. Confidence comes naturally now, and so humility will
Speaker 4: be on your side. A creative spark will turn into
Speaker 4: something bigger.
Speaker 1: Urgo.
Speaker 4: Details matter more than usual this week, and you're in
Speaker 4: the perfect person to handle them. Just don't get stuck
Speaker 4: in overthinking. Progress beats perfection any day of the week.
Speaker 1: Libra.
Speaker 4: Balance is your theme this week, but you may feel
Speaker 4: slightly off at first.
Speaker 3: A shift in priorities helps you realign. By the weekend,
Speaker 3: things are a.
Speaker 4: Lot more smooth for you, and you are getting more
Speaker 4: connections and you feel more at peace with yourself. Scorpio,
Speaker 4: you're in a powerful position to let go of something
Speaker 4: that's been weighing on your shoulders. Whether it's an old
Speaker 4: habit or just a situation, time to release it. Expect
Speaker 4: a renewed vigor and a new world of control afterwards,
Speaker 4: or feeling control afterwards. Sagittarius, adventure calls, even if it's in.
Speaker 3: A small way.
Speaker 4: Try to break a routine, Try something new, be spontaneous.
Speaker 4: A new perspective will lead the charge this week for
Speaker 4: future planning. Capricorn, responsibility is front and center, and you're
Speaker 4: more than capable than making good decisions. The key this
Speaker 4: week is not taking too much on Delegation could be
Speaker 4: a key to you feeling peaceful this week as well. Aquarius,
Speaker 4: your originality will shine through and people are paying attention
Speaker 4: and they're drawn to you, So share ideas, even if
Speaker 4: they're unconventional. Collaborations will be great this week and turn
Speaker 4: into something special. Pisces, your intuition is especially strong this week,
Speaker 4: as it is in all other weeks. But remember quiet moments,
Speaker 4: just to have some clarity, do not rush, take time,
Speaker 4: lay luck, Brocolo, and they are your stars this week.
Speaker 2: Well, thank you very much, Michelle, and for you listening
Speaker 2: to us. I hope that this episode in particular will
Speaker 2: probably help with a number of different people, which is great. Yeah,
Speaker 2: a bit more pull over, like you said, yeah, angry,
Speaker 2: feel free to rate the podcast. Next week, we are
Speaker 2: going to be doing You're going to be doing a
Speaker 2: reading for one of our new friends to the podcast, Patrick.
Speaker 2: She's been doing a little bit of spell work as well,
Speaker 2: so you up for that for a bit of a reading.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that sounds like fun.
Speaker 4: And then I'll go and investigate some of the books
Speaker 4: that I've liked through the years.
Speaker 3: But there's a lot of.
Speaker 4: Really good ones that have come out too, and I
Speaker 4: mean I sell them in my shop and both two
Speaker 4: stores and Carra, So I'll grab some books that I
Speaker 4: actually like from there and bring them in.
Speaker 1: And you actually horn how they're recently doing a signing
Speaker 1: of her book.
Speaker 4: Yeah, she came in and she does with a coven
Speaker 4: where the witches gather and things like that, which is
Speaker 4: really good. So I can have a look. But I
Speaker 4: think definitely spell books things like that that can get
Speaker 4: them different types of variances, because which is all do
Speaker 4: it very differently. You know, you have your basic sort
Speaker 4: of what we did. I mean, go back to episode one,
Speaker 4: the basics of what you can have for your alter.
Speaker 3: But I think, you know, maybe we need to really
Speaker 3: look at that as well.
Speaker 1: Alters, alters and things like that. Yeah, we could do that.
Speaker 5: There you go.
Speaker 2: We've just one some show planning on the show, which
Speaker 2: is great. Look after yourself and and I hope you
Speaker 2: have a great week, Michelle.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much.
Speaker 3: You Di Darling.
Speaker 2: Oh I'm so sorry.
Speaker 5: Good work.
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