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If there's one thing I want you to learn from all of my videos, whatever one advice I can give everyone, it's learn how to alchemize energy.

That's it.

If you know how to do this, you will never lose in life.

Because when you know how to alchemize energy, which basically means taking any lower vibrational energy that sent your way, for example,

you had a situation happen where you have a lot of sadness

or you have a lot of fear or a lot of hate sent your way, then you take that energy and you transform it into something positive,

which you create something from it, or you better yourself because you want to use that energy to become a better version of yourself,

then you will always win in life because you realize that you can never lose.

Everything in life that happens to you is just an experience.

It is not good.

It is not bad.

It is just an experience and then you can also realize

that energy sent your way is neither good is also neither

bad it is whatever you make of it then you realize damn i have all the power

if someone for example sends hate your way

and all you're gonna do is sit and ruminate and feel bad

or you're being bullied and you just sit and you ruminate

and feel bad

or you think to yourself okay wait i am getting energy

sent my way i am really important they say okay thank you for the energy

and you can do two things you either send it back

so you say i return all this energy back to sender

or you take that energy

and you say how can i make something big out of this how can i let this benefit me

or how can i make money from this hi guys my

name is this i'm back to my channel okay let's get

into it first things first first thing is you should always ask yourself what is this teaching me.

So for example, anything that happens in my life, any bad thing or whatever, I don't look at it as like, oh my God, God is trying to punish me right now.

Oh my God, I'm getting karma, whatever.

No, I just think, what is this thing trying to teach me?

Because I genuinely think that the universe and God always works in my favor.

I genuinely think that I'm being guided always towards my highest good and my highest purpose.

So when you work from this mentality, you never take anything that happens to you personal

and you never victimize yourself and see

when you don't victimize yourself you literally accomplish anything in life

because you know look i'm not a victim i'm the creator of my life i'm powerful

so you get into that powerful position

and you look okay hmm what is happening right now what

am i supposed to learn here for example let's take my situation

when i got cheated on okay i was thinking okay why did this happen

and then i realized wait a minute i have been given advice to women

that got cheated on and that were in toxic relationships

and i've always been telling them like do this do

that like choose yourself all these things

and then i was thinking like i've never really experienced

that though i've never been cheated on i've never had this thing happen to me

and then i was put in a position where i finally had it happen to me

and then i realized wow i learned so much from this like it's

so crazy to me how much wisdom i derived from the situation

and how much I myself matured

because I also realized there's certain things in the relationship

that I don't like about myself that I don't want to continue

and I don't want to repeat again

so now I feel like I'm way more mature

and a way more healed almost version of myself

because it made me open my eyes and when you see any heartbreak

that you went through or anything you went through as wow this really taught me a lot then you won.

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Another thing when you don't alchemize energy, what happens is the energy can get stuck in your body.

A lot of you guys are not overweight a lot of you guys have trauma stuck

and i genuinely believe you when you say that you cannot lose weight

because i had the same thing happen to me i grew up i was a very skinny girl very slender

and then when i had all the abuse everything

that i dealt with my dad i developed bulimia

so i was binge eating and purging and because of

that i gained a lot of excess weight that i could not get rid of.

So all of this energy that was sent my way, which was all this trauma and PTSD,

I transferred it into an addiction for food because I thought that that way I can suppress the emotions that I'm feeling.

But it was self-destructive.

So then what happened is when I refocused that energy, that amount of energy into my TikTok,

my Instagram, and my YouTube, my business started blooming.

Why?

Because the problem was never that I was not capable or whatever.

No, it was that I was using all the energy that was sent my way in a wrong way.

I was using it to self-destruct myself.

But when I redirected the same amount of energy into something that I want to do and my purpose, that started blooming and I became very successful.

See, the reason that I couldn't get rid of this excess weight

and whatever was because I was keeping

that energy stuck in my body instead of letting it move

and letting it go into something else and creating something out of it

but when i started creating i lost the weight

and like i literally my body i don't gain weight no matter what i eat nothing

and the eating disorder is completely gone

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because i shifted my focus from destructive energy to abundant energy that's why movement is also

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so important because we interact on a daily basis with different people

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and we have energetic interactions where we might take on some things from other people especially

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if you're people pleaser and you're constantly listening to people's problems you're taking

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that on you right now when you take

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that on you it's not necessarily bad if you then go

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and do something with it for example you go to the gym you work out

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and you'll notice oh my god i feel so much lighter and i feel better Yes, because you moved all of that energy that's stuck in your body.

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You moved that.

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And now the energy has a way to release itself.

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That's why they also say like women, for example, or a lot of people carry emotion in their hips.

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Like twerking, dancing, moving your hips is really good for you to release that excess energy.

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So guys, protect yourself.

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Protect your energy.

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Protect your auric field.

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Because we have a lot of stuff when we are not protected that can come in.

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For example, say on a daily basis, I am divinely guided and I'm divinely protected.

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When you step into the shower, when the water washes over you, always say, I call all my power and energy back from all people,

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places and situations that have been stealing it without my consent now.

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And I give back any energy that's not mine to carry.

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Say that three times a day.

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This is very important.

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Also, when certain emotions or whatever come your way, just observe them, but don't become them.

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See, oftentimes when we think like, oh, I'm so sad right now.

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Sadness, for example, comes your way.

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What you think is like, oh, I'm a depressed person.

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But you're not, though.

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You're not.

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You're dealing with sadness right now, which is separate.

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You look at it, you allow it to come in and you say, okay, I can grieve now.

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I can give myself time to grieve.

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And when I feel better, I will be better.

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See, a lot of us put ourselves in boxes

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and we create illnesses for ourselves that were never even there in the first place.

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Why are you putting yourself in a box?

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Just say, I'm healthy.

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I'm breathing.

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I'm happy.

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Good things are here.

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Good things are coming.

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Just say good things to yourself.

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Also, always think, is this thought helping me right now?

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So for example, when you think something and it's like super negative or super degrading for you right now, just think to yourself, is this helping me?

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if it's not don't ruminate on it for too long because

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when you do you'll you'll find yourself becoming a victim again like oh the world hates me okay

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and then what like okay then like i just don't get it i'm such a problem solver person

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because i've always had to solve problems ever since i was young

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so for me i never even give myself the permission to feel like a victim to sit there

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and like do nothing but just feel bad for myself.

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These days I just think okay let me figure it out, okay let me do this and that's how I go through life.

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So channel the energy that you have received in something that you can create.

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See when our soul doesn't create our soul becomes depressed.

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We are sent here to earth to create, to have a purpose.

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We all have a purpose whether it's small, whether it's big but you're always needing an impact in someone's life

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and some people have the purpose in your life to show you what not to be like.

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Like genuinely, I've had some people in my life where I was like, damn, like, I don't want to be like you, but that person motivates me to do better genuinely.

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So how we look at, for example, artists are soft, right?

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Like they go through a heartbreak, they create a song, you can create poetry,

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you can make art, you can channel the anger and resentment that you have into helping others

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like just think to yourself what would help others how can

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i share my story how can i put myself out there or

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if you just want to help your friends help whatever like

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transmute the energy into something positive like your story can maybe help millions of people

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and you might think like oh no it's already out there i'm not important you are important

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because things are not out there with your energy they might be out there with my energy

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or someone else's but someone might resonate more to you

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so don't think that just because it's already happening or

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that art is there

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or whatever i'm not important you are important you are very

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important also call yourself back into your body a lot of you guys do not feel alive

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or do not feel like you're there because your soul doesn't feel safe inside of your body.

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Look, if we have went through something very traumatic, our body, our physical body can become a place that is not comfortable for our soul to be in.

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But then you have to call your own name and say, it's safe for you to return and say that to yourself.

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Because when you do that you are signaling to your soul

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that you are a safe space

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but you also have to be conscious about creating a safe space for your soul to be in look

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when we indulge in addictions for example a lot of time you won't feel like yourself anymore

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because your soul thinks that you're volatile your physical body is volatile

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and you're just always like this walking around doing the craziest stuff

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so when your soul doesn't feel stable it doesn't want to be there

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so you have to create an environment where you feel like

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you know my soul would love to be inside of my body how you do

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that is by showing yourself love by showing up for yourself

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by being mindful about what you put in your body by being mindful about the addictions

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and the self-abuse that you put yourself through

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because you know we talk about abuse from other people a lot

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or toxicity from other people

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but the biggest abusers are us we abuse ourselves the most like for example let's say

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when you get bullied

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or you get hit right can it really affect you unless

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you let it affect you no it can't like you are the only one

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that can allow that thing to go into your head

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and to ruminate there these people are not in your head

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these are separate entities now it is up to you whether you open

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that door for them to come in or you close it

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and you take whatever the energy they have here

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and you say okay i'm gonna make something nice for it for myself

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and who can break you when you have a mentality like

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that please tell me who it's like impossible because

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if you are a person that never sees anything

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that happens to you as negative you are one of the

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strongest person alive like truly you are a wizard you are an alchemist also you have to say this affirmation

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and it's anytime my name is spoken i get more beautiful wealthier

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and healthier just keep saying that and watch what happens because anytime someone mentions your name whether it's good or bad

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because they're sending energy towards your name then it will transform into something good for you

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so if you're for example being bullied also you have to realize

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that you have something that other people can feel

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and they are for whatever reason sending energy towards your way

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i feel like being bullied is celebrity energy that's how you

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know you have the potential to become a celebrity later on

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because i was always bullied always um never fit in anywhere

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and i realize now why there is a certain sense

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that intimidates people when they see you you have something

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that you don't even understand you will see

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that most celebrities will tell you that they were bullied

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and it's because genuinely people see something in them they cannot see for themselves you have to be

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so thankful for life's experiences because you're gonna learn a lot

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and all the pain that you have everything that is genuinely the thing

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that is going to teach you the most

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if you think like oh my god once i have success isn't it honestly as someone

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that has experienced both and that keeps experiencing both which is pain

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and success i don't learn a lot from my success like

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it's nice for a couple days maybe a month whatever

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but then when i experience something bad or something

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that is meant to hurt me I know

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that damn this will give me more wisdom I can share more now with people

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and I can help them more now so that makes me really excited

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and those are the things that I learned the most from also you know

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when you are in your struggle phase and you are still in

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that mindset of like oh my god I have to make it

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that is such a good place to be in like a lot of people

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that have already made it that came from nothing, they wish they were in that mindset again, because that's the mindset that keeps you going in life.

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When you are in survival mode, you have the most amount of potential because anything you do is just better than the situation that you're in right now.

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Like life only depends all on you whatever you do with your pain with everything

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that you go through will determine how successful you will be that's it the successful people

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and the ordinary people the one thing

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that differentiate them is the successful people do not have time

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to be a victim that's it they don't take their situations

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and be like oh poor me no they just think okay gotta learn from this

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and move on like this and i feel like a lot of people

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that never make it in life or never accomplish anything they just sit

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and they're comfortable in being like so sad for themselves

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and sit and whine and it's like you know i

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when i say like no one is coming to save you i mean like yeah your mom can try

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and like talk you give you motivation your your sister can try give you motivation but

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if you yourself are not going to do anything about it

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your situation is never going to change like this is why a lot of families

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that deal with addicts for example they truly give up on them at some point

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because they cannot help them these people have to want to help themselves that's it i just think that's

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so powerful because i just think when you realize

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that all the power lies within you

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that you can change your life only you when you decide

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that then wow what what can you not accomplish you can

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accomplish anything you set your mind to you know my therapist

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she told me this story once where she said she she used to do energetic healings on people okay

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and she told me this story where she said

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that there was this woman

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and her husband would constantly bring her in to help her heal

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because she was very depressed and she had some sort of illness

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and my therapist kept doing energetic healings on her

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but she was never getting better and she found that

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so weird but that woman kept coming back kept coming back

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and the husband kept bringing her

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and then at some point one point she said listen I keep doing these healings on you

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but you're not getting better I don't understand why and then

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that woman looked at her

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and said look I am happy in this position I am happy being sick

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and then she said what do you mean and she said yeah

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because this is the first time that my husband is giving me a lot of attention and he's taking care of me.

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So I don't want to heal from this illness.

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And then she realized, oh my God, like a lot of people are happy in the victim role

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because that is the only way that they have ever felt relevant or they felt like they have received love,

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which is self-destructive, but it makes a lot of sense. because

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if you constantly make people feel pity for you you feel

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like oh wow like like you almost feel like a child

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and everyone wants to take care of you right but does

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that make you super successful no

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but not a lot of people want to be super successful they just want to be in

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that mindset and that's good for them

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but i really believe in having agency over your life

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and i really believe in controlling your life as best as you can

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and humans love control you know i would hate to be dependent on some someone else's outcome

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or whatever it's like whatever i can physically do to transmute this into something better i will do

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because in my head that gives me the most amount of control over

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that situation i just feel like we take things like relationships

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and whatever like way too seriously it's like oh my god my heart got broken this

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and that it's like you can move on from

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that you know it's like oh i lost my friends okay you can move on from

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that like oh i lost my job okay you'll find a

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better job like you never lose anything it just was not meant for you at that time

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and you will get something better that's it like in my life anytime i thought like oh something is gone

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or whatever i've always gotten something better

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so i never lost anything in my life i just got a better life

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and that is really what you get when your mentality is

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that god is working in your favor

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that the universe is working in your favor start really thinking

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that life is set up for you to win and that is when you will win anyways guys

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I hope this video helped some of you guys

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and uh yeah I hope you understand the concept

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which is basically take any energy send away say thank you

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so much and turn in something else that is good for you

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that you can make a lot of either money like happiness like whatever you want from

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that situation you can create that once you realize

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that I'm gonna put this somewhere

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that is most beneficial for me i love you guys

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so much and yeah i will see you in the next video bye

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What You'll Learn

This video is a goldmine for building conversational fluency and confident expression. You’ll practice turning complex ideas into relatable speech—like explaining abstract concepts (e.g., "alchemize energy") in simple terms. Plus, you’ll learn to use personal stories (like the speaker’s experience with being cheated on) to strengthen your message, a key skill for engaging communication. These are perfect for the shadowing technique, where you mimic the speaker’s pace and tone to build natural flow.

Listen For These Sounds

Notice how the speaker links words smoothly, like "how can i make" becoming "how can I make" (soft linking between "can" and "I"). You’ll also hear reductions, such as "it's" instead of "it is" and "don't" for "do not," which are common in casual English. These connected speech patterns are essential for sounding native—practice them with shadow speech to master the rhythm.

Say It Like a Native

To mirror the speaker’s style, focus on stress and rhythm. She emphasizes key words like "power," "teach," and "create" to highlight her message—copy that to make your speech impactful. Use the shadowing technique by pausing the video, repeating short phrases, and matching her tone (e.g., the conversational "hi guys" at the start). For extra practice, use a shadowing site to record yourself and compare. Remember, the goal is to sound natural, not perfect—this is how you learn English with YouTube effectively. By mimicking her confident, reflective tone, you’ll not only improve your English but also adopt a mindset of resilience—turning language practice into personal growth!

Grammar in this video

The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:

Structure	In the video
Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — an action that started earlier and is still going on	i've always been telling · have been stealing
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now	have been given · i've never really experienced · i've never been cheated
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it	being bullied · being guided · have been given
Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing	someone who works · way, which was · now, which is

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 — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 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 — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.

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