Pratica di Shadowing: What’s In a Name? - Impara a parlare inglese con YouTube
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Most of us in the modern world are given a name when we're born.
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Most of us in the modern world are given a name when we're born.
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You may like that name or you may not like that name.
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You may feel like it fits you or you may feel like it doesn't fit you at all.
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You may change your name over the course of your life.
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You may be in the position at some point to name something or someone.
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Whether this is a pet or a company or a child or something else.
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At some point you may find yourself asking What's in a name?
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Well, this is the question I'm going to be answering in today's episode.
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Names matter and they matter in so many ways.
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1. Names validate existence.
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They signal that a thing exists,
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that it's differentiated from every other thing around it,
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that it's relevant and that it matters.
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2. Names carry a vibratory frequency.
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They're like an energetic signature.
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And when you attach that vibratory frequency to somebody or to something,
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it affects that someone or something.
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The full picture of this vibratory frequency is quite complex by the way.
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It involves things like thought forms associated with that name,
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stories attached to that name,
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past or future events, associations it conjures for yourself and others,
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the numerology associated with it,
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the impact of the specific tone,
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its timbre, its volume, intensity,
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texture, duration, rhythm, tempo and meter,
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what qualities or other things are energetically contained or included within it,
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the concepts that are associated with that name,
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its meaning, etc. This vibratory frequency is constantly influencing you and those that you come into contact with.
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It acts like a kind of a blueprint,
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shaping how you manifest in the world,
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shaping how others experience and interact with you,
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and shaping how you interact with and experience life.
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A name is full of coded information.
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Given that you have a vibratory frequency before being named,
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by the way, the vibration of your name can do things like bridge,
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resonate with, enhance, clash with,
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or diminish your non-physical vibratory frequency.
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3. A name is an anchor for identity.
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A name becomes entwined with a person's sense of personhood it acts as this kind of steady point of reference
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that enables a person's self-concept and self-image to remain steady and consistent throughout time.
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4. A name influences how you see yourself.
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Because a name is such a key part of identity,
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it's obvious that it would have an impact on how you see yourself.
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Imagine the difference in how you would see yourself if your name was felony versus if your name was charity.
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This is also true of the why behind a name.
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Say that a little girl was born and her dad wanted a boy instead,
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so when she was born he was super disappointed and looked at his wife and said,
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we'll just name her after you.
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This little girl would struggle with a sense of importance,
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self-worth and also differentiation from her mother all her life.
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A name can both form and express self-concept.
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5. A name influences how other people see you.
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There's no getting around the fact that names trigger immediate associations,
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thoughts, feelings, biases and impressions.
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And this absolutely affects how other people see a thing or a person,
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as well as how they behave around and treat that person.
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You can think of a name like a kind of a social badge coated with all kinds of information for others.
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6. Given that a name is a very powerful vibration,
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it shapes your self-concept and therefore how you behave in the world,
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as well as it shapes how other people see you and therefore how they behave towards you.
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Names have the capacity to influence your personality,
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your life experience and therefore, your life path.
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This has actually been well studied by the way.
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Individuals often develop an appearance that matches their name over time.
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This is known as the face name matching effect.
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People tend to adopt behaviors such as frequent smiling
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or certain grooming styles that fit the stereotypes that are associated with their name.
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Changing their appearance, specifically hair and facial muscle structure,
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to mirror the social expectation of their name.
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A person named Hope, for example,
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may feel subtly urged to smile more or be more optimistic,
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while a name that implies strength,
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like maybe Victor, will lead to a more assertive self-image.
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If a person has a name with positive connotations,
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they're likely to receive more positive reinforcement from others, fostering high self-esteem.
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Now, to the contrary, a name seen as negative,
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unprofessional, difficult or undesirable in some way,
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often results in a negative association,
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negative attention from others, causing a person to develop lower self-esteem and to feel insecure.
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Studies have shown that people with more common or traditional names have an easier experience getting hired for jobs,
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while those with distinctive foreigner stereotyped names often face discrimination.
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Teachers often subconsciously hold different academic expectations for students based on their names.
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Which can, by the way,
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influence a child's school performance.
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On dating apps, it's been proven that people with names perceived as unfashionable or old-fashioned are more likely to be rejected.
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Psychological research into implicit egotism suggests that people are subconsciously attracted to things that resemble them,
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including their own names.
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So you may be subtly drawn to careers or locations
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that share your name's initials or that have something to do with your name.
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For example, people that are named Dennis are statistically more likely to become dentists
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and those named Baker often gravitate towards the baking industry.
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You're also going to be drawn to products that you buy
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and to brands you trust based off of their similarity to your own name.
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All this can influence serious life decisions,
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shape a person's potential and dictate their life path trajectory.
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In this way, a name can become like a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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7. Names are very powerful connectors, tying you to things.
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For example, a name that is associated with the ocean can tie you to the ocean.
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Or an ancestral or cultural name can connect you tie you to things like ancestry or culture.
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There is a heritage transmission in names of an ancestral nature that connect you to your roots,
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but also to things like a specific culture,
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family history, ancestral legacies, family values and individuals within a family line.
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8. Names play a role in pre-birth intention.
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Obviously, because a name carries such a powerful vibratory signature
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that relates to your own identity and the life that you're ultimately going to live,
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before you come into this life,
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your name was a part of your pre-birth planning.
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But here is where it gets complicated.
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Your consciousness may pre-select a name that carries a specific vibrational frequency
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that aligns with your consciousness or the intended purpose you have for this life experience.
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Or, you may choose into an experience where your name is out of alignment with you.
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Because the desired effect that that has is part of the expansion path that you intended for this specific life.
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If it's the first scenario,
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your consciousness will influence your parents,
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often on a subconscious level.
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more rarely on the conscious level,
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so that they experience the inspiration or the pull towards a specific name that matches that pre-intended name.
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Just to give you two examples,
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beings who are coming into a life to specifically create ancestral
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lineage progression are likely to select the name of a specific ancestor
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or a name that vibrates as a kind of antidote to ancestral traumas.
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If a being has a pre-birth intention to be a healer,
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they're likely to select a name that holds a very specific numerology,
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so as to be able to act as a conduit to specific energies.
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Sometimes a name change in life is part of a being's pre-birth intention as well.
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Changing your name at a certain point in life can signal a shift away from a karmic
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or familial chapter of soul progression over to a completely different chapter of soul progression
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that is based on entirely different influencing factors.
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And this is something that many of you would have seen before even coming in.
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9. Logos.
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The word is a very powerful tool for creation.
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Logos is a bridge between non-physical and physical.
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It forms potential energy into ordered form and manifestation.
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A person's name is a word that brings order to their individual existence.
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It invokes specific qualities into the material physical realm and they are expressed through the person's temporal form.
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It is essentially a statement of being.
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Uh-oh!
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So, because of all of this,
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obviously changing your name can have a serious effect on you and your life.
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For example, dropping your family name and taking on someone else's family name obviously impacts belonging and unity.
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On an energetic level, it can literally mean you're being claimed by and are becoming one with that other family line.
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And this implies you're taking it and all that's contained within it,
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both good and bad, onto yourself.
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To the flip side, it can mean that you are disconnecting yourself from the family line that you were born into,
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releasing it and all that's contained within it, both good and bad.
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Not completely of course, because obviously you opted into the genetics
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that are associated with that family line and were shaped by those ancestral gifts and traumas that were transferred,
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either directly or indirectly, but you are disconnecting yourself from it in a significant way.
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Changing the name that you go by,
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usually this is a person's first name,
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is usually what has the most impact.
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It will drastically alter your personal frequency,
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drastically alter the way that you see yourself and the way that other people see you.
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It is very likely to change your life path.
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Changing the name that a person goes by helps a person to create this distinct persona.
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It often allows them to align their persona with their inner truth as well.
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It can signify a fresh start,
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helping individuals to reclaim power and also positivity after a trauma or to distance themselves potentially from a traumatic past.
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It's a wildly transformative act.
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One that has the power to do so much good for a person.
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It's a move to take ownership over one's own identity.
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That being said, some things you need to be very conscious of when you are changing your name,
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is that doing so is a big deal because of everything that's in a name.
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You need to be very conscious about whether changing your name is an act of rejection,
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especially self-rejection, or whether it's an act of separation.
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The choice to separate from something is a very serious choice,
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not to be taken lightly.
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You also need to be conscious of whether it is an act of discontinuation.
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The choice to discontinue a name such as a family name can have some serious implications
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because it's a chosen endedness or death sentence to a specific frequency and all that is coded within it.
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The intention that you have behind a name change matters a lot
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because this can either make it an in alignment thing to change your name
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or an out of alignment thing to do so.
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On top of this, changing your name can be a logistical nightmare.
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It can create legal problems,
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it can lead you to being flagged as a threat by certain bureaucracies.
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Changing your name can create issues for you and other people
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because they associate you with your old name and may continue to use it.
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Well, this may create frustration in you,
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conflicts and identity dissonance in you.
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Every interaction with people who know you already may feel like an identity negotiation
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and they may be upset that
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they have the pressure of changing you in their heads and remembering to call you by this different new name,
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the entire social dynamic between you and others may be laced with a kind of friction because of it.
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At least for a time.
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If you have established success also under your name,
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changing your name can lead to a lot of professional problems and potentially professional losses.
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Changing your name can lead to a kind of unexpected existential crisis for some people as well.
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Your old name links you to everything that you have experienced in the past.
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Now for some people changing their name feels like they have killed off the person that lived through all of those experiences.
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Essentially that they've killed off themselves.
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Taking a new name can also make you feel like an imposter.
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Dropping a family name can enhance the feeling of being orphaned and can generate a lot of guilt.
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And a person may change their name believing
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that it will magically fix all their issues only to realize that this didn't happen.
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It didn't magically make it so that you don't have a drinking problem like dad did.
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It didn't magically make it so that you have so much confidence.
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It didn't give you the fresh start you wanted.
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The more conscious you are about your names,
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plural, and about any name that you may be considering, the better.
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Becoming conscious about a name implies perceiving the energetic signature it holds.
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Discovering the etymology and meaning,
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researching its origins, being aware of what it's associated with across cultures,
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being conscious of what it is tied to and all the implications of that,
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what it connects a person to.
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Really reflecting on its impact on identity,
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how it will cause someone to perceive themselves and how it will impact the way that others will see them.
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The thought forms, associations and stories that are a part of that name vibrationally what it symbolizes,
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what it will influence it being to become,
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its phonetic personality, its numerology,
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its prophetic implications, its sound and flow, pronunciation and spelling.
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The why behind it.
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The why has to be aligned and there has to be a good why.
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A name is not just a label.
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Contrary to Juliet's speech in the wildly popular play,
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Romeo and Juliet, a rose by any other name may not actually smell as sweet. Have a good week.
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Perché praticare parlando con questo video?
Praticare la conversazione in inglese è fondamentale per migliorare le proprie abilità linguistiche e il video "What’s In a Name?" offre un contesto ricco e stimolante per fare proprio questo. In questo video, l'autore esplora l'importanza del nome, non solo come etichetta ma come parte integrante della nostra identità e della nostra esistenza. Attraverso la discussione su come i nomi influenzano la percezione di se stessi e le interazioni sociali, gli spettatori sono invitati a riflettere non solo sulle proprie esperienze, ma anche a condividere le proprie opinioni. Praticare parlando di tali argomenti offre l'opportunità di migliorare la pronuncia inglese e acquisire fiducia nello speaking attraverso la pratica di conversazione in inglese.
Grammatica & Espressioni nel contesto
Nel video, l'autore utilizza diverse strutture grammaticali e espressioni che possono essere preziose per i principianti e gli studenti avanzati. Ecco alcune chiavi per la comprensione:
- Uso dei tempi verbali: L'autore alterna il presente e il passato per spiegare come i nomi influenzano la nostra vita nel tempo.
- Domande retoriche: Domande come "What's in a name?" coinvolgono l'ascoltatore e stimolano la riflessione personale, un ottimo modo per praticare la shadow speech.
- Frasi condizionali: Espressioni che iniziano con "If" vengono usate per creare scenari ipotetici, utili per esercitare la conversazione e la tua capacità di creare associatività.
Trappole comuni nella pronuncia
Una delle sfide maggiori per chi impara l'inglese è la pronuncia corretta delle parole. Nel video, ci sono alcune parole e frasi che possono risultare difficili:
- "vibratory frequency": Presta attenzione alla pronuncia di "vibratory", dove il primo suono "vi" deve essere chiaro e ben differenziato dal resto della parola.
- "identity": È importante non confondere la "d" con il suono "t"; pratica queste transizioni per migliorare la tua pronuncia inglese.
- Accenti e intonazione: L’intonazione dell’autore è chiara e coinvolgente, quindi prova a replicare il suo modo di parlare per affinare il tuo modo di esprimerti nel dialogo attraverso la shadowing.
Per coloro che mirano a migliorare la pronuncia inglese e a rendere la propria comunicazione più fluida, l'esercizio della shadow speak con questo video è un ottimo punto di partenza.
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