Episode 067 There is no perfect way

What is the relationship between the inner and the outer? Between our Soul-self that exists as part of the great mystery, and our physical body? And are there aspects of ourselves that are lying dormant and looking for places to express themselves? These are some of the many questions I talk about with the wonderful Fiona Sears, reiki practitioner, energy worker and skin-rewilding tallow maker, who insists that the things we put into and around our bodies have energy. 

You can follow fiona on IG @fiona.sears and find her tallow shop on etsy @beesncoos

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In this episode, I wanted to share a moment from my own messy real life that gave me a ton of wisdom about finding a new level of self-acceptance. What is so interesting about parenting is the reality that we don't choose our children like we choose our friends. We get the children we get and life teaches us how to learn and accept and love them for who they are in all their messy beautiful humanness. The truth is, we also don't choose ourselves! We don't get to decide what we're good at or what we find difficult. So whether you're a parent or not, this is a story you need to hear about what might happen if we really accepted ourselves the way we learn to accept our loved ones. It's wisdom in the midst of messy real life. The way our life becomes the path.

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Wisdom has most often been passed from one generation to the next through stories. How should we live? What is our relationship with the universe and ourselves? What is the deeper meaning of our life? In all cultures, insights have been held in stories, and these stories have been told as medicine for the soul. In this episode, I talk to storyteller Claire Hewitt. We talk about how story is connected to land and place, how sometimes stories come to us at just the right time and how women's wisdom has been carried and also hidden within story.

You can find Claire on Facebook here

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Your body is a sacred interface between your deep self and the 3D world of form that we live in. This is why, taking care of our bodies and learning how to communicate with our bodies in the language it understands is the most powerful way to step into our most true and beautiful version of life. In this episode I talk about what it means that our body is an interface, how to use posture and the breath to change the interface, and what that does to our experience of what we call 'reality'.

Want to see want this means in practice? I'm running a week of short 20min sessions to empower you to direct your body in a new way. This is -- Awaken the Core of You, 5-9 February 2024. For more details tap here https://mailchi.mp/sarahbhunt/awaken-the-core-of-you

How can we rediscover the natural breath? What are the biggest issues we humans living in the crazy modern world have around breathing? What does it mean to 'optimise' the breath? And how far can the breath really take you? In this episode, I talk with Dani Mae, founder of Breath Guidance and avid explorer of the power of the breath, whether that's freediving, breath techniques for athletes, breathing for health and much more. This episode is guaranteed to inspire you!

Find Dani Mae at www.breathguidance.com where you can get access to her free Breath Technique Training program. You can also connect with Dani on Instagram and Youtube @breathguidance 

And...the new Messy Luminous Being Online Journal is here! Check out my series of articles on 'The Core of You' coming all this month!

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How can we make things easier on ourselves while still creating the life we really want? How can we genuinely stop overworking, pushing ourselves beyond our limits, and running out of steam? Three inter-related ideas come to mind, as we step through the threshold of this next year, and take that moment to pause and reflect on how we're living — consistency, ease & essentialism. In this episode, Sarah shares how these three ideas converge to create a new guidance system for Effortless Effort as we head into the next year.

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For those who visit the Oracle, she shares tales in the Old Language, tales that weave their way into your bones and have the power to transform. She stands at the threshold of her white stone house above the silver mangroves and against the towering cliffs of her indigo island.

She is waiting to tell you this next story…the tale of the hungry ghosts...

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The Oracle's Tales is a novella of magical stories and spells of wisdom. The oracle is a healer, and most come to her for help with their physical ailments. But this is not the oracle's true calling. The oracle is a healing of the suffering of the mind.

In this third chapter, the oracle tells you the Tale of the Wild Horses.  "You have come here," she says, "thinking of yourself as an ordinary person. Someone with problems and worries and things to do. But beneath all of this you are a daughter of the grasses and a son of the stones. So listen..."

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The Oracle speaks tales in the Old Language, tales that weave their way into your bones and have the power to transform. And if you dared to visit the her at her home by the cliff, what tale do you think she would tell you?

Once there was, and once there was not and once there will be again, a young girl who dreamed that she stood before a long path that was littered with flecks of gold... Listen now to the story of the treasure in the cave, for sometimes it is told like this, and sometimes it is told another way...

The Oracle's Tales is a novella by Sarah Beth Hunt. You can grab your own ebook copy of The Oracle's Tales. Just tap the link & tell me where to send it... https://mailchi.mp/sarahbhunt/the-oracles-tales