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Manifesting does not have to be complicated.
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Manifesting does not have to be complicated.
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Here is the core simple truthĀ that you need to understand in order to manifest the life that you want.
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Hello my loves.
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Welcome back to Lavendaire. I'm Aileen.
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If you're new here, we talk about personal growth and life design.
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Today I'm so excited to shareĀ the simple truth to manifesting.
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So, one of my favorite hobbies is listening to manifestation audiobooks.
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And I love the classics.
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I love Esther and Jerry Hicks, aka Abraham Hicks.
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And I was listening to one ofĀ their audio books the other day and I was reminded of this simple truth of how to properly manifest our lives.
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Whereas everything else is justĀ like the surface level techniques and strategies and ways to get there.
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But this is the core truth of how to be a master magnetic manifestor.
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You ready for it? Feeling good. Period.
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Feeling good about yourself.
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Feeling good about your life.
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Feeling good in your body like you have to truly feelĀ good as much as possible.
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That is the secret to being a master manifestor.
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The more you can align yourselfĀ into that feeling of feeling good, the more easily you can manifestĀ anything you want in life.
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Because that feeling good is the high vibration of I already am.
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I already have, I already love, I already enjoy.
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It's like you're in thatĀ feeling where things are good.
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And when you feel good, you manifest a life that feels good.
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So, it's one of those like the more you feel it, the more you attract it in your life.
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Cuz law of attraction statesĀ that like attracts like.
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The higher, brighter, better feeling you are, the higher, lighter, brighter feeling your life is going to be as a whole.
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So, that's the secret. feeling good.
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Now, I want to break it down a little bit more so that it becomes a little more actionable.
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So, you understand that is the core foundation of what your goal is.
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You want to get to a place where you feel good.
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That means you want to make decisions for yourself in your everyday life that feel good.
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For example, if somebody asks you to go out and you're kind of like, "Oh, I don't know if I reallyĀ want to go out. I'm not sure." Like you should make the decision based on what makes you feel good, not based on what ah I thinkĀ people would want me to go or I don't want to make thisĀ person mad. I don't want to.
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So think about all the times you kind of doubt your own internal feeling because you're putting someone else'sĀ desires above your own.
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You're putting someone else'sĀ emotions above your own.
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So consider that.
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So, always come back to making choices for your life that feel good for you.
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If you are overworked and feeling stressed and burnt out about work, but you have this inner need to like keep grinding and you just don't feel good about resting, ask yourself, what would truly feel good for me?
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How can I do something that makes me feel good?
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Maybe it's just taking a break, taking a nap, going out, taking yourself to a cafe.
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Maybe it's playing a video game.
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Maybe it's doing somethingĀ that you've never done before.
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So, whatever it is that will make you feel good or feel better in that moment, that is the right decision for you.
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Your body always knows what is the best decision that makes you feel good.
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So, I just talked about yourĀ choices and your decisions and your actions in life.
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The next one I want to talkĀ about is your thoughts.
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So, we want to get to a place where we choose better feeling thoughts for ourselves.
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Better feeling thoughts that better serve ourselves and our feeling good.
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How simple is that? I know it sounds simple.
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It can be hard to do depending on where you are in your growth journey.
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But this is all about becomingĀ aware of your self talk, becoming aware of your self-criticism, your self-doubt, that negative voice in your head.
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This is the practice of being kinder to yourself, of being more supportive and loving to yourself in your head.
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You want to get to a point where everything that you're telling yourselfĀ in your mind is supportive.
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It's not making you feel even worse.
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Whenever you have a thought that makes you feel even worse, start noting it down.
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What was the thought? How did it make me feel?
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Why did I even choose to believe this thought?
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And once you become awareĀ of those negative thoughts, you can then choose better feeling thoughts.
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Like instead of feeling this way about myself, why can't I try feeling this way?
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Why can't I choose this otherĀ thought that feels better?
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So, the more you do that, the more you practice this inĀ your mind, it's a practice, the better you get at choosingĀ better feeling thoughts.
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For example, a lot of us have social anxiety.
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We might feel a littleĀ awkward when we're in public.
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So, when you go out to like an event where there's a lot of people you don't know, you might have these thoughts creep up like, "Oh, I feel so awkward. I don't want to be here." or, oh, this person might think I'm weird.
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I can't believe I just said that.
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And you just might be veryĀ self-conscious and in your mind.
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Well, those thoughts aren'tĀ exactly making you feel better.
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So, why don't you instead try putting on some better feeling thoughts?
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For example, you go out to this event, you don't know anyone, but you're open to meet new friends.
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You're like, I feel so good about myself today.
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I love the outfit that IĀ picked out for myself today.
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I feel like I have some exciting stories to share or I feel like I'm a very interesting person that these people would beĀ interested in getting to know me and I am interested in getting to know them.
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Whatever positive feeling thought you can think that makes you feel better, that is what you want to try on.
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So it'll be different for everyone because we all kind of have different minds, different limiting beliefs and different perspectives on things.
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So just try experimenting, exploring with better feeling thoughts.
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Like try to find a thought that makes you feel so good about yourself.
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Like I walk into the room, I am loved.
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Everybody loves me. I loveĀ myself and I am lovable.
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Like if that makes you feelĀ good, wear that thought.
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Wear that thought throughout your day.
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It also doesn't have to be focused on you.
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It could be I'm so interested and so excited to learn about somebody new.
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I'm so excited to learn aboutĀ someone else's perspective.
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Oh my god, I'm excited to meet this person.
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What can I learn from them?
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That is a feeling good thought because you have excitement there.
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You're not even thinking about yourself.
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You're just like ready toĀ like focus your attention and learn something about someone else.
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These are all examples of how you can choose better feeling thoughts.
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And this is something that youĀ can practice every single day.
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Whenever you catch yourself thinking something that makes you feel negative,Ā try a different thought.
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Just just try it on.
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The next point I want to make is the goal is to learn to feel goodĀ about all areas of your life.
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Honestly, the first step is simply awareness.
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And once you have awareness,Ā awareness is the power.
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Like you know what needs toĀ be done to make a change.
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And so that's what's so beautiful about this is you have a very simple compassĀ to living a better life is simply what feels good.
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And this is like holistically feeling good.
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Your whole body feels good.
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Literally getting to a place where your mind, your heart, your spirit, your emotions, your energy are all aligned.
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Like you are all in this alignmentĀ and this energy of feeling good.
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Now, I'm super excited toĀ share this challenge that I prepared for us to do this June.
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And if you're watching thisĀ a little later, it's okay.
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You can do this challenge anytime.
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This is the challenge that will helpĀ us put this concept into practice.
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Every single day for 14 days, you are going to do something that helps you align to this feelingĀ of feeling good in your life, in your body, in all areas of your life. Okay?
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So, this is what's going toĀ be part of the challenge.
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I'm creating a feel-goodĀ manifestation affirmations audio where it's basically an audio where it's like, I feel good. I feel good. IĀ feel good about my family.
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I feel good about my health.
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I feel good about this and that and this and that.
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And it's something that you can just press play, listen to it while you're getting ready, while you're doing your evening routine, whatever, like while you're cooking, while you're walking.
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It should be so simple toĀ integrate this into your life because it's just an audio.
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You don't have to do anything.
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You just have to listen to it.
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So, when you listen to this audio, you're already putting yourself in that energy, that emotion of feeling goodĀ about yourself and your life.
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And not only that, which brings me to the secondĀ part of this challenge, is you can then get someĀ inspiration on what to work on.
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Basically, the second part of thisĀ challenge is two journal prompts.
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The first journal prompt isĀ what we just talked about, having the awareness of what partsĀ of your life don't feel good yet, and then reflecting on what can I do, what can I change to make that area feel better.
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So, as you listen to the affirmations, we're going to go through all the areas, all the angles of life.
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And there will be some statementsĀ that are easy for you to say, but some statements that are not exactly easy because they don't feel true yet.
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Like, I feel good about my health.
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And some of you might notĀ feel the truth in that yet.
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So, when you feel thatĀ resistance or that misalignment, that is your clue.
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Oh, this is an area that IĀ don't truly feel good about yet.
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So, why? What can I do about it?
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I'll let you reflect and figureĀ out your own plan on your own.
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The second journal prompt is scripting.
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So scripting is one of myĀ favorite manifestation techniques.
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It's basically writing in the present tense of you having everything you desire.
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So this scripting prompt is about script as if you feel good about everything in your life.
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And I want you to script for as long as you want.
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Write as much as you want.
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So, I set a timer in the app for 5 minutes.
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So, 5 minutes of scripting and you just go at it.
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So, the challenge is run in my app, Resonance.
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It's free to join. The link is down below.
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Just enter your email.
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We'll send you all the detailsĀ on how to start your free trial and get signed up, download the app, and then when you're in the app, the challenge has these three actions, the affirmations, audio, the two journal prompts.
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But you don't have to doĀ everything every single day.
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Basically, you choose theĀ action you want to do each day.
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So, today you might listen to affirmations.
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Tomorrow you might do some scripting.
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The third day you might doĀ some like reflective journaling and planning for how you can make changes.
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So, I leave it up to you or youĀ can do all three in one day.
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It doesn't really matter.
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All you need to do is at least one day.
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So, the challenge is 14 days total.
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And if you do every day,Ā like if you keep a streak, you get more rewards.
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But if you don't keep a streak and you skip a day, it's actually okay.
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I'm making this challenge very fluid and soft.
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Like you don't have to do all 14 days.
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All you have to do is at least 9 days in order to officially complete the challenge.
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So that's like leaving someĀ open room for flexibility because I know we all have busy lives.
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But it is really fun.
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What I love about resonanceĀ is it gives you a space, a sanctuary for your inner work.
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It helps you stay consistent.
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It has all the content in there, plus it has this gamificationĀ that's really fun and motivating.
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And what I love about this is I've spent like over a decade teaching about personal growth, manifestation, lifestyle, design.
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We get so much information online.
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I don't think we lack theĀ information or the knowledge anymore.
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Like literally, you probably haveĀ saved so many reels from Instagram or so many videos where you're like, "Oh, that's a great idea. Oh, IĀ would love to try that one day." But you actually never end up doing it.
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So the point of Resonance is notĀ to like give you anything new, but it gives you a container toĀ stay consistent with your practice.
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You can do meditating, you can do journaling, you can do like focusing.
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There's so much that you can do.
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The goal is just a space for your inner practice, your inner work.
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And once you're in the freeĀ trial doing the challenge, you also have access toĀ everything else in Resonance.
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We have so much content, audios, music, journal prompts, and more.
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So, I hope you have fun exploring.
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I'm super excited about thisĀ because it's our first time doing like a Lavendaire wide challenge with Resonance.
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I used to do challenges back in the day, but it's honestly been a while.
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I think the last challenge I did might have been the 30-day meditation.
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That might have been like 2 years ago.
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We did a 30-day meditation challenge.
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So yeah, it's been a while, but we used to do a lot of challenges and I find it really fun.
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And also with this challenge, ifĀ you don't want to do it in the app, that's okay. I totally get it.
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I will be posting the affirmationsĀ audio next week on this channel.
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So you would just have to wait a week in order to start the challengeĀ and you can just do it yourself by listening to the YouTube video.
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But if you want to try my appĀ and explore what's inside, the free trial is 14 days andĀ you have all the audios in there, all the journal prompts, and it's ready for you.
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Also, a challenge is nothingĀ without our community.
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So, the couple places we'll beĀ sharing the challenge is our Discord.
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So, we have a Resonance Discord,Ā there's a challenges channel, and that's where you canĀ like talk and connect with other people who are also doing the challenge.
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And if you are sharing anything on social media, you can tag us at @resonance.app and use the hashtag #ResonanceChallenge.
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So, we'll be like checkingĀ the post there, reposting.
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I'm excited. It'll be so much fun.
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All right, my loves. The linkĀ to join the challenge is below.
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Sign up with your email and thenĀ we'll email you with all the details and then I will see you inĀ Discord. I'm in the Discord.
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I'll be reading everythingĀ so you can chat with me there and we'll share how we areĀ going along the challenge.
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I'm so excited because thisĀ is the longest challenge we've done in Resonance.
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Usually, we do like 7 days and less.
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So, this is a 14-day challenge.
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We actually created a newĀ design just for this challenge.
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Regardless, I hope you take this lesson with you that the secret to manifestingĀ is simply choosing to feel good.
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Choosing to feel good about yourself, about your life, and about your future.
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All right, sending you so much love.
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I will see you in the next one.
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Next week's video is the affirmations audio.
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Bye.
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About This Lesson
In this practice lesson, you will explore the concept of manifestation and its core principle: feeling good. You will learn how your emotions, decisions, and thoughts can influence your ability to attract the life you desire. By focusing on how you feel and making choices that align with your happiness, you can enhance your English speaking skills while deeply engaging with the content. This lesson will provide valuable insights into personal growth that you can apply in your daily activities.
Key Vocabulary & Phrases
- Manifesting: The process of bringing something into your life through focused intention.
- Feeling good: The emotional state essential for positive manifestation.
- Law of attraction: The belief that like attracts like in both feelings and experiences.
- High vibration: A positive emotional state that can attract similarly positive experiences.
- Self-talk: The internal dialogue you have with yourself, which can be negative or supportive.
- Make choices: The decisions we make daily that can influence how we feel.
- Better feeling thoughts: Thoughts that contribute positively to your emotional state.
- Awareness: The practice of recognizing your emotions and thoughts to foster better decision-making.
Practice Tips
To effectively practice with this lesson, consider utilizing a shadowing app that allows you to listen to the transcript in a clear and engaging format. As you listen, pay attention to the speaker's tone and speed. The content may vary in pace, so be patient with yourself as you shadow.
Here are some techniques to enhance your learning:
- Shadow Speak: After listening to a segment, repeat what you heard immediately, mimicking the speaker's tone and rhythm. This exercise will help you improve your English pronunciation while reinforcing the vocabulary.
- Slow it Down: If the video's speed feels too fast, adjust the playback speed settings on your chosen app to a slower rate to grasp the pronunciation and rhythm better.
- Focus on Feelings: As you practice, connect the vocabulary about feelings and emotional states to your own experiences. Try explaining how certain decisions make you feel, using the new vocabulary you've learned. This will deepen your understanding and make your speaking practice more authentic.
- Be Consistent: Regular practice is key for improvement. Set aside time daily to engage in shadowing, focusing on both your listening skills and speaking clarity.
Remember, the goal of shadowing is not just to repeat but to internalize language structures and emotions, ultimately enriching your English communication.
What is the Shadowing Technique?
Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud ā like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1ā2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency ā making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.
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