After almost a year of wandering the world, we're back! And honestly? We were teaching, traveling, deepening our own Alchemy practice — and somewhere in the middle of all of it, we realized: we really missed you! We missed these conversations and the deeper dives, not to mention all the nerding out together!

So in this episode, we're easing everyone back in to the Inspired Action world. We share where we've been, what shifted for us, and why Season 10 feels different. We also get into:

• Why Daoist alchemy is not spiritual bypass — and why that distinction actually matters
• The two most important questions in Stage 1 of the Nine Stages of Alchemy
• What it means to become a Zhen Ren — a fully realized, authentically yourself human being
• Why this Year of the Fire Horse is asking something specific of all of us
• A teaser of what's coming in Episode 146 (including a Daoist meditation on opening your doors)

If you've been listening since the beginning, welcome home! If you just found us — perfect timing. We're so excited that you're here.

Mentioned in this episode:

• Episode 142: How to Navigate This Fast-Changing World Based on Your Elemental Nature
• June 27 Workshop: From Seeker to Alchemist (Alchemy Lab Workshop Series) → alchemylearningcenter.com

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• leta@inspiredactionpodcast.com
• jay@inspiredactionpodcast.com

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Guest: Deng Ming-Dao (Daoist philosopher, author, and artist)

In this powerful continuation of Episode 143, hosts Jaye McElroy and Leta Herman dive deeper into their transformative conversation with renowned Daoist philosopher and artist Deng Ming-Dao. This episode explores the intersection of creativity, healing, and daily practice, offering profound insights for artists, healers, and anyone seeking to live more authentically.

This episode is essential listening for artists, healers, and anyone interested in living a more creative, authentic life. The conversation bridges ancient Daoist wisdom with practical modern applications for reclaiming creativity and attention in our distracted world.

• Distinguishing between inspiration and other internal chatter
• The importance of waiting and discernment in creative and healing processes
• How meditation creates space to reassess and clarify authentic inspiration

• Why external validation (money, success) cannot replace inner knowing
• The courage to follow your heart despite societal pressures
• Self-cultivation as the ultimate measure of success

• How society has co-opted our natural capacity for attention
• The difference between being told what to focus on versus choosing your focus
• Practical steps to redirect attention from consumption to creation

• Why 99% of people have had their natural creativity "beaten out of them"
• The myth of talent versus the reality of daily practice
• Starting small: simple tools like pencil and paper, humming, or describing experiences

• Why beginners should expect and embrace being "no good" initially
• The power of daily practice and incremental improvement
• Using constraints and limitations to stimulate creativity

• How both artist and audience are transformed through creative expression
• The gift of art as a form of healing exchange
• Creating "messages in bottles" for future generations

• Art as a response to the world and inner experience
• The importance of not pandering to audiences
• How authentic expression naturally carries spiritual essence

On Trusting Your Heart:

"If you trust your heart, if your heart tells you this is where you need to go, then that's what you need to follow. Because no external rewards and no external rejection is going to be a guide for what you need to do in life."

On Getting Started:

"It's as simple as picking up a pencil and a piece of paper. It's as simple as humming something. It's as simple as saying, this just happened to me. How do I describe it?"

On Attention:

"We are completely capable of attention, but attention has been co-opted by our society. We have not been allowed to say we deserve attention for our own purposes."

On Defining Art:

"Art is a response to the world. And from that, other people can see that shape [and] think about how they might want to respond to the world."

1. Start a Daily Practice: Get a sketchbook and write or draw in it every day, even if it's "crap"
2. Examine Your Screen Time: Notice how much attention you give to others' content versus your own creative expression
3. Embrace Beginner's Mind: Allow yourself to be "no good" initially and focus on the process, not the outcome
4. Set Constraints: Use limitations to spark creativity (small canvases, limited time, simple materials)
5. Create Space for Reflection: Spend time looking at and contemplating your work, not just producing it

• AlchemyLearningCenter.com - Hosts' website with courses and resources
• New Book: "Cultivating the Thirteen Ghost Points" by the hosts
• The intersection of Daoist philosophy and creative practice
• The concept of the Nine Palaces and the Creativity/Children Palace

Deng Ming-Dao is an author, artist, and teacher. He is the author of: 365 Tao; Chronicles of Tao; Scholar Warrior; Everyday Tao; The Lunar Tao; The Living I Ching; Zen: The Art of Modern Eastern Cooking; and The Wisdom of the Tao, Every Journey Begins With a Single Step, and The Way of Heart and Beauty.

His books have been translated into a variety of European and Asian languages. 

Deng Ming-Dao has trained in Chinese martial arts since 1975. His teachers have come from Beijing, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and two Taoist mountains, Huashan and Wudangshan. He has been most involved with the internal systems of Xingyiquan, Baguazhang, and Taijiquan, and he has given many workshops to introduce Chinese martial arts and Taoist wellness techniques.

• Creativity as Spiritual Practice
• Healing Through Art
• Attention as Sacred Resource
• Daily Practice as Transformation
• Authentic Expression vs. Commercial Art

😴 Look Under The Covers:  Ghost Points for Better Sleep and Deeper Self Awareness 🥱

In this podcast episode, we discuss the mysteries of the Ghost Pillow and Ghost Bed points from Chinese Medicine, guiding you through self cultivational practices to perhaps uncover your unconscious beliefs and obsessive thoughts that can disrupt sleep. This episode is not just a conversation, but an invitation to become aware of your patterns, release what no longer serves you, and step into a life of greater authenticity and peace.

Whether it's through meditation, contemplation, or simply being more vigilant with your thoughts, this episode offers practical tips and empowering insights to transform hidden aspects of yourself that may be affecting your sleep at night. Join us for our continued podcast journey through the Thirteen Ghost points and your potential path to realized self-awareness and living the life you truly want will appear.

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"Earths can better serve everyone else by spending a little time taking care of themselves."

• Goal setting and thinking it through
• Earth, The Home Palace, and the safe container
• The importance of social compliance for Earths
• Taking care of yourself
• Reading books, walks in nature, taking a bath!

"Home is the safe container from where we launch our ambitions from."

"We need some spontaneity, but we also need some safety."

"In order to set and achieve goals, you have to be able to think it through."

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"We want to be limitless!"

• How to be free and still be a part of your community or society.
• The 5 Confucian Virtues
• How each of the Five Elements connects to the Virtues
• The worst thing that can even happen to someone
• The Alchemist's Path
• Society and guilt
• HW: How do you exhibit these 5 Virtues (or not) in your life?

"Human connection is one of the greatest sources of happiness."

"Being kicked out of your community can be the most painful things that can happen to a human being."

"You can run away to the North Pole if there's anything left to run away to. Are there mountains in the North Pole? I don't think so. Just glaciers"

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"You really need to have all Five Elements to set and achieve your goals. And luckily you have all Five Elements within you!"

• Goal Setting by each of the Elements
• Fire's passion and aligning it with your heart
• The Shiny Bubbles syndrome
• The Stuffing (Turducken) syndrome – time management challenges
• Putting yourself first…what a concept!

"If you really want to master your Five Elements, it's like an alchemical process… you need all of them to get what you want."

"Fire is the key to our motivation in life!"

"First you have to light a fire in your heart to get something done."

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"A free heart is what we want!"

• Setting your heart free
• How to release your Tentacles
• Authenticity and freedom
• Trading your problems away
• How to deal with suffering
• Inherited Tentacles

"If we are not free we are not being authentic."

"Leave your temple and you're free!"

"The suffering isn't the issue. You honor the suffering. Remedy the conditions that cause the suffering and transform, or just feel the pain and get stuck."

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"You get an Element, and you get an Element, and you get an Element, and you get an Element, and you get an Element! Everybody gets an Element… and it's Friday."

• Which Elements are extroverted and which Elements are introverted?
• How does society and our upraising affect your introverted or extroverted-ness?
• Be the Watcher (Eckhart Tolle-style) to discover your Elements.

"That's the Extra-verts, not the Extro, the Extra!"

"There are a couple exceptions to this Introvert/Extrovert rule…""

"You might be confused based on how you were brought up."

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"Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them"

• Our newest addition to the podcast, Five Element Friday!
• What are Triggers? How do they effect our Tentacles?
• Our 3 Needs: Survival, Connection, Individuality
• 4 Common Triggers: Fear, Guilt, Loneliness, Annoyances (there can be many more!)
• Triggerwork: Which triggers get your Tentacles going? Who's pulling your Trigger??

"Triggers are feelings."

"You sleep if you're sleep deprived, you eat if you're hungry, and maybe you say the big scary two-letter word "N-O!""

"We first experience a feeling, which is a normal response, but then the past comes up and reels its ugly Kraken head! We remember the past circumstances (Tentacles) that this Trigger is reminding us of."

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"Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on."

• Your "Kraken" Tentacles, and a few suggestions on what they might look like!
• A Free Heart and a Child-Like Mind
• The first four Tentacles that create a feeling of Lack
• Three more Tentacles that give you a false sense of Control
• How our Tentacles can turn our lives into an episode of "Hoarders"
• Heart-work: How do the Tentacles appear in your life? Learn to identify your Tentacles and what triggers you.

"There's not a hierarchy of trauma."

"We essentially create our own Tentacles. Because of our interpretation of what's happening around us, it feels like it's coming from the outside."

"The challenge in life is to free yourself and come back to that child-like state."

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Release The Kraken!!!

Davey Jones releases The Kraken in Pirates of The Caribbean!

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"Everything you want is because you think you will feel better in the having it."

• The Pursuit of Happiness – will it make you happy?
• Ice Cream Cones and the 3 second rule
• Turning on your light in your dark Scooby-Doo cavern
• A Pure Heart
• Avatar-like Heart Tendrils in all of us
• Tentacles and the Seven Deadly sins

"A pure heart is a free heart!"

"Our spirits are like gold, gold is a metal that never tarnishes."

"From the outer heart there are all these tendrils, which are like our blood vessels, but metaphorically, let's think of them more like a system of activation… we call it in Chinese Medicine "the Network of Animation."

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"We have everything, but we can't find what we want most, happiness."

• Immortality
• Interpretation of Quantum physics theories
• Wu Wei
• Be Learn Do model
• Left vs. Right brain
• Masculine and feminine qualities
• The Home Palace
• Fear
• Trust with a capital T

"This is what blows you away. The scientific method tells you to question everything other than the scientific method tells you."

"If they didn't question that assumption, and they decided the world was flat, then we would never been here today on a Zoom call."

"Doing is a very masculine quality. Being is a very feminine quality. To achieve that flow, you want to first allow yourself to completely be… is to connect not only just with what's inside you but with everything outside you and everyone outside you and every living being outside you… to feel the truth… which unfortunately is never found in thoughts."

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"We have everything, but we can't find what we want most, happiness."

• Moonshot Projects
• Mo's son Ali, and his death
• The Stories we create
• Good and Bad
• The Grieving approach in Daoism
• The Stages of Alchemy
• Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon flying
• Supertramp
• Treating yourself like you treat your loved ones
• Mo's swap test for the 9 Palaces
• The Matrix and Inception movies
• Masculine and Feminine qualities

"If I'd ask Ali, would you give your life for millions of people to find happiness, he's say, 'Yeah, take me right now.'"

"Isn't it funny that we keep growing to become the babies that we were in the beginning?"

"One billion diapers!"

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Can you free yourself from past heartaches and embrace new connections? Your Heart Protector might tell stories of inadequacy, but recognizing and questioning these beliefs can unlock the door to genuine relationships. Do you have defensive patterns that stop you from opening your heart.

Are you aligned with your heart's true path in life? Explore what you believe about the balance between destiny and free will. Are external forces or past experiences taking you off your Dao's course? There's no judgment here—only a call to honesty and self-reflection.

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"What is happy for one person can be totally different for the next person."

• The interview coming up next with the author of "Solve For Happy," Mo Gawdat!
• A review of the motivations for each Element
• His Holiness The Dalai Lama and his book, The Art of Happiness
• What Happiness means to each Elemental Type
• Water: Positive expectations or anticipation
• Metal: Freedom to be in Wu Wei
• Earth: A deep sense of inner belonging
• Fire: The light and love inside of you
• Wood: Engagement and peace within an activity

"Each Elemental type has a different way to be happy."

"Each Element is happiest when they transcend to a level of connection to the divine in their unique Elemental way."

"As long as there is a lack of the inner discipline that brings calmness of mind, no matter what external facilities or conditions you have, they will never give you the feeling of joy and happiness that you are seeking. On the other hand, if you possess this inner quality, a calmness of mind, a degree of stability within, then even if you lack various external facilities that you would normally consider necessary for happiness it is still possible to live a happy and joyful life."

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"We can't say for sure what dictates our inherent nature"

• Why you might not want to mix Astrology and the 5 Elements unless you're a super rock star astrologist!
• Why it's hard to trace what dictates our nature
• Chinese Astrology vs. Western Astrology
• The difference between Water and Fire Elemental excitement
• Water intensity
• Fire light-heartedness
• How the top two combinations of Fire/Water or Water/Fire might be expressed differently
• The Rebellious Chi Meditation
• Concentrating on enjoying and deserving what you have, no matter how you've received it… it can happen!

"These astrological events might be used to explain why some people feel like aliens in there own families"

"Water is much more intense and Fire is much more lighthearted"

"Enjoy things that are coming to you effortlessly"

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Is your child having trouble in school or at home? Have you thought about medication or used it with not-so- great results? In our society today, schools can be tough for all of the Five Elements to maneuver through. Home life and school life can often lead to confusion for students, parents, teachers and all those who want to make a real difference in your kid's life. In this "educational" episode, we have special guest Mia Gray, a school adjustment counselor, who has been practicing the Five Element theories with her students for years!

"In this society, what falls into normal is very narrow."

By Jaye McElroy and Leta Herman | Follow: Facebook and Instagram In this Pod, we talked about:

• Wood children understanding things fast, getting bored easily, and needing leadership roles
• How to help Fire children to be social and their mood swings
• Earth children having more trouble at home than in school, and why Earth children can get teased and sometimes bullied
• Why Metal children listen without looking and can sometimes feel like outsiders
• Why Water children might be the most misunderstood and their need for movement

Thought Quotes:

"Waters have too much attention, it's just not focused on you."

"Metals don't get a bad rap, but a weird rap."

"Help Earths to be their authentic selves."

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The goal of this meditation is give yourself some time to align your heart with the answer to the What do I really want question from the What do you really want meditation. If you have not completed the What do I really Want meditation, please start there.

"You can go your whole life believing stories that are just not true."

• How stories create our identity
• How to identify the story that is holding you back
• Stories that are within each of the Nine Palaces
• Identifying fear, guilt, shame, or blame
• The trap of self-fulfilling prophecies
• The importance of truly wanting to change in your life
• Accountability for what we want and don't want in our life

"People are really hard on themselves. They kick their own @*!."

"There is no try, only Wu…Wei."

"Be the change you want to see in your self."

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate–our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure."

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"Maybe we are really just travelers. This lifetime, this place on earth is just a trip. And when we die we get to go back to the real home."

• What happens when we complete the Home Palace?
• Why we're all trying to get to the Home Palace
• Why Earths are always at the center of everything
• How Earths are so good at holding space for people
• Why every Palace is an Earth Palace
• Why this Palace has so much to do with your "mother"
• Who are the surrogates to the Divine?
• The Nine Heart Pains treatment
• Why the 9 Palaces could be called the 9 Challenges
• Why we would ever want to leave a perfect feeling of wholeness

"Home is our actual earth. All of us have a home here on earth, and that's why we call it Mother Earth!"

"Home is where the heart is."

"The Home Palace is a state of mind and a state of heart…it's a state of spirit."

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"Be inspired and then be inspiring!"

• The difference between being wealthy and prosperous
• Why Prosperity is about having MORE than enough
• How you can be prosperous with money, time, energy, love, and more!
• If your Prosperity Palace is not doing well, take a hard look at your other Palaces
• How it would feel to give away half of what you have
• How judgement can get in the way of our Prosperity: Giving without strings attached and the problem with giving without a heart connection
• Homework: Do you have enough money to pay your own bills? When is the last time you were debt free? Are you going on vacations or having any fun? When was the last time you had thoughts about sharing your resources with others? When was the last time you received something your didn't expect with no strings attached?

Leta: "I was thinking about Billionaires these days. Many people just aren't comfortable with making that much money."

Jaye: "Yeah well I'd like to feel uncomfortable like that someday!"

"When all beings are at your disposal, we speak of knowing how."

Jaye: "If you don't have the Prosperity Palace rocking or chugging along at some level, I really see a lot of the other Palaces that are struggling. Because you're almost in a survival mode, you're not in a giving mode. Your heart is not open. That's why it's the Fire Palace; it's the heart. I think that it's a really good way to get all of your Palaces going if you can look at the Prosperity Palace."

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"A smart person will give you smart answers, but a wise person will ask you smart questions."

• The difference between being smart and wise
• Being in the NOW moment
• Why Waters are best in an emergency
• Where Waters hold their wisdom!
• Why letting go of knowledge is the true wisdom
• What happens if you have the Water Element third
• How to thaw Frozen Water
• What 10,000 hours can do for your Wisdom if you're not Water
• Harness the power of the bottom of the ocean within yourself 

"Wisdom is held in your kidneys, which are related to the Water organs. So believe it or not your Wisdom is held in your low back."

"Trust in the moment that you'll make the right decision."

"It's funny how all the other Elemental types are more likely to sometimes freak out, but Water, in an emergency, can stay level-headed and cool as cucumbers."

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"It's about making something from ourselves that we end up loving even more than ourselves because we created it… Those are our children, which can be our creative children."

• How this palace ties in with "The Zone," or Wu Wei. The power of creative force…
• Why this is often the first Palace to get "the boot"
• The connection between the Metal Element and your legacy
• Why waiting for "the right time" to be creative or have children is not a great idea… How not following your creative urge can lead to illness 
• How to give yourself permission to be creative
• Why adoption can also fulfill your creativity
• Being honest with your partner about wanting or not wanting children
• Homework: Take 15-20 minutes and do something creative. If you can't think of something, think of things you used to like to do. Start doing what you used to love to do. Dust something off and pick it up, or start something new! Take time to play with your children.

Jaye: "Let's go back to creativity and making babies! Bom chicka bow wooooowww."

Jaye: "Look at Australia and New Zealand. Those Hobbits are really kicking it"

Leta: "I don't think it's just Hobbits that live there…"

Jaye: "Well you're right there are Wizards too!"

• Michael Moore Movie, Where To Invade Next

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The goal of this meditation is to ask your higher self what you really want. Traditionally alchemists went on retreat to ask this question. Today, your meditation is your little retreat away from the demands of life. Putting aside your family, your boss and coworkers, your parents, children, or friends needs, what does your heart really want?

The next two Ghost Points in our series are about how we receive input from the outer world and how we actually see the world. These insights are invaluable for anyone striving to cultivate greater authenticity in their life.

• Ghost Convincing: This theme challenges us to recognize when we're being influenced by external pressures or "gaslighting." It's about trusting our inner truth and being aware of when something feels off.

• Ghost Eyes: This theme encourages us to reflect on how past experiences, especially traumas, might cloud our current perceptions. It's about seeing clearly without letting the past dictate our present.

To cultivate Trust, start with small steps to rebuild trust in yourself. Whether following a gut instinct about a seemingly simple decision, like taking an umbrella when it doesn't look like rain, or reflecting on bigger life choices, nurturing this inner trust is key to authenticity.

For those who might feel overwhelmed due to past traumas, the journey may take time, but it's worth the effort. Recognize situations where you might have doubted yourself and try to understand the underlying truth of those moments.

While the past may have shaped us, it doesn't have to define us. By reconnecting with our authentic self, we can cultivate the Thirteen Ghost Points to approach the world with clarity and confidence.

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Are you traveling or are you virtually traveling through social media, TV, or your computer? Do you want to travel more in your life? Do you have any adventure in your day-to-day life. It's time to break your habitual tendencies and your adventure on! The Travel/Global/Adventure Palace is #6 of the Nine Palaces.

"Not all those who wander are lost."

--J.R.R. Tolkien

By Jaye McElroy and Leta Herman | Follow: Facebook, TikTok, Instagram In this Pod, we talked about:

• The Number 42 and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
• Boredom is not good. We need to jump into life.
• Challenge your habitual way of living.
• More and more people are fulfilling their travel palace through Instagram and TV. They're not getting their butts off the couch.
• It's a mindset. You can do an adventure at the grocery store.
• We're all travelers. We are borrowing time. We're visiting for a number of years and going back from whence we came from.
• Metal magic carpet ride.
• When we die, we get to go back home. This life is our trip.
• E.T. Phone home. Wizard of Oz… there's no place like home. Click!
• Wood is in perpetual entrance. Every moment of every day is birth.
• Metal is thinking about death… going back from whence we came.
• Harold from Harold and Maude was trying to find Home with a capital H.
• Global Palace – traveling to another country was very rare in ancient times. It was about getting out of your little village to learn that we're different but we all have similarities.
• If your Wealth Palace is limiting your Travel Palace, you can have adventures without needing money.
• Homework — Do something different every day. Something you don't normally do. Do you feel free to travel? What's holding you back? Do you feel stuck in a rut? Do you have a Global perspective on life? Make new friends… stretch yourself culturally. What would a sense of adventure in your life feel like?

Thought Quotes:

"Travel takes you out of routine and invites you to try new things. The secret to staying young is to not live habitually."

"Young people are spontaneous and exploring all sorts of things. As we age, we shut down to the newness."

"We're all travelers. We are borrowing time. We're visiting for a number of years and going back from whence we came from."

Links in this Episode:

• F.U.N. Spongebob song
• Vagabonding by Rolf Potts on Audible
• The Nine Stages of Alchemy – take you on a journey of self-cultivation with the goal of helping you truly fly in your life and live your full potential Connecting Your Circle – The Five Elements primer The Energy of Love – Love and The Five Elements Alchemy Healing Center – https://AlchemyHealingCenter.com

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The intention of this meditation is to begin your Alchemy journey and enter the Mystery Gate. To begin Alchemy, you must be willing to enter the dark gate...like parting the veil of mystery. You do not know what lies behind this dark gate, but you are willing to put yourself first and brave the darkness and the unknown...knowing that there will be light at the end of the tunnel, and you will discover what lies behind the gate.

Become limitless. Wealth is a mindset of abundance. The Wealth Palace (also called the Abundance palace) can affect all the palaces. How many decisions a day do you make based on money? Does your happiness depend on how much money you have? Whether you're rich or poor or somewhere in between, the Wealth Palace is a game of mental tug of war. What is your mindset? Stop being handcuffed by money—with either lacking or scarcity feelings–and start to find limitless resources! Wealth can also be about other resources, not just money.

"It's not just about making money, it's a mindset of abundance. Opening doors, breaking down obstacles. It's a mindset of yes please!"

By Jaye McElroy and Leta Herman | Follow: Facebook, TikTok, Instagram In this Pod, we talked about:

• The mindset of "yes please!" Being open to abundance
• The obstacles we create to prevent us from true wealth
• Fears about money can creep into your other palaces
• How important the Wood virtue of Benevolence is to prosper in the this palace
• The 10 Million Dollar Question
• Why we have jobs instead of passionate careers 
• Why the rich and poor can BOTH have Wealth Palace challenges
• Why Waters need to be especially vigilant about over protecting resources and getting into scarcity mode
• Wealth Affirmations! 
• Homework: Do you have enough money right now? When is enough, enough? Do you make all your decisions everyday based on money? How many decisions?

Thought Quotes:

"Money trickles and sometimes it flows, and sometimes it's like a tsunami. It's a consciousness."

"I see a penny and I pick it up because I just added to my Wealth Palace…"

Links in this Episode:

Money Master the Game, by Tony Robbins

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Tap into your Wood Element (of the Five Elements) to stay healthy! Want to create consistent health in your life on a daily basis? This episode is a convo about the fundamental questions of "why" we get sick and the very first steps you can take to stop a cold in its tracks. Learn about multiple Acupressure "Cold Points" and the ancient healing art of Gua Sha. Start creating the uncommon cold in your life and feel great all year long!

"What if we gave each other permission to take time off from work and go have fun? Or go rest and sleep for no reason at all?"

By Jaye McElroy and Leta Herman | Follow: Facebook, TikTok, Instagram In this Pod, we talked about:

• How to stay healthy every day–all year long. 
• Think about heath on a daily basis by tapping into your Wood element.
• Acupressure techniques for preventing sickness
• Gua Sha scraping at the first signs of a cold
• The importance of taking "health days" to prevent sickness
• #IFeelGreatButUsingASickDayToday
• How resistance causes sickness
• How "phlegm" is actually a very good thing!
• Dealing with anger and letting go of the fight against sickness. That fight creates heat in your body! 

Thought Quotes:

"Unless you're sick, if you're not the Wood Element, first or second in your stack up,  you don't think about health as much. But if you're Wood first or even second health is always on your mind, it is just the way they think."

"I say Gua Sha has a short learning curve, but a lifetime to master it."

Links in this Episode:

Stomach 9 for a sore throat

Small Intestine 18 for itchy nose, eyes, or mouth

Ren 22 – for beginnings of a cough

• Small Intestine 1 – Jing Well point for releasing the first stage of a cold

• Instant Pot

• The BIG "Little" Gua Sha Book

• Ceramic soup spoons
• Learn Gua Sha – online class
• The Alchemy Learning Center App (available in iTunes store and Google Play)

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This Inspired Action Podcast meditation is the first meditation to start with. It's a general relaxation and beginner's guided meditation. The goal of this meditation is to relax your body, clear your mind, and allow universal (cosmic) energy to fill you up before you begin your daily meditation.

Are you getting what you need in the sleep department? Are you struggling with daily bad sleep habits? Listen as we talk more about the 9 Palaces, the Health Palace, and how Sleep is important to your overall health. Health hacks and movement of Qi as well as one helpful "cheat" if you can't get enough exercise. 

"Sleep is a time of letting go of your resistance… When you go to bed at night… you are releasing resistance and that means you get to reset your body. That reset is so essential to your overall health."

By Jaye McElroy and Leta Herman | Follow: Facebook, TikTok, Instagram In this Pod, we talked about:

• Sleep is a critical aspect of your Health Palace
• Strategies for better sleep:
  • Daily meditation
  • Turning off your electronics 1-2 hour before bed
  • Reading an old-school physical book
  • Making rules and boundaries around your nightly routine
  • Blocking the light in your space (covering electronic lights and black-out curtains)
  • Getting the right sleeping temperature
  • Sleeping gear that can help (especially if you're Wood!)
  • Pericardium 8 Acu-point on your palm to help sleep
• Why Exercise is important for your Health Palace (especially for the Woods and Waters)
  • Not exercising can cause Qi Stagnation
  • Exercise can clear stuck/toxic emotions
  • The Massage "cheat"

Thought Quotes:

"If you're not sleeping well, you should definitely try meditation because you can get the same effects while your body is in that meditation state. Like the sleep state, you are rejuvenating… That's why we can heal. We regenerate."

"The body is so amazing. I always say: 'My body knows how to do it right.'"

"I have the smart phone addiction like everyone else, and the only way I can force myself to not continuously check it by my bed is I made a little bed for it over in the other room, and I tuck it in at night, and then I go to bed."

Links in this Episode:

• "Producing Meat Mindfully," by Hannah Thorogood, in Permaculture International
• f.lux for changing the color of your computer's screen
• Blue Light Blocking glasses
• Sleep Mask (also blocks some sound)
• Tom Brady's Pajamas
• ChiliPad for cooler (or warmer) temperatures at night
• Tibetan Incense – order on our Born Perfect Web site
• Our Letting Go Meditation or download our Inspired Action Podcast App

• Pericardium 8 on the palm of your hand (where your middle finger touches the crease while in a tight fist. Use this point when your mind/spirit can't settle at night.
• The Clock
• Solve For Happy paperback or go to http://audibletrial.com/inspiredaction for free audiobook 
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Is your Health important to you? Why do you do things to yourself that are not always healthy? Do you even want to live a healthy life? What is Clean Eating, and how can you do it more? Can you choose to make changes? Why the Health Palace really matters?

"If you ask 10 people what to eat, you're going to get 10 different answers. "

By Jaye McElroy and Leta Herman | Follow: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram In this Pod, we talked about:

• The Health Palace belongs to the Wood Element – the element of decision making
• The Water Element is about doubt and fear or Trust with a capital "T"
• Simple strategies… what are the healthy options?
• When you cook yourself, you get to pick your own ingredients. Cooking with clean ingredients…
• Clean eating – eliminating processed foods. Eating more healthy vegetables, fruits, local meats, organic. Eliminating dyes and additives… taking the crap out that's not needed. Reading ingredient labels.
• Identifying your food allergies.
• Doing research about a lot of different foods.
• Eating nutrient dense food and counting your macros. 
• Meat substitutes or gluten-free substitutes can be like junk food. Read the labels.
• Eating vegetarian and avoiding blood deficiency (pale tongue, feeling cold, tired or weak). Floradix or similar supplement for blood.
• How do you feel after eating grains and sugar? 
• Slow Carb Diet (see link below)
• Magic Day: eating whatever you want one day a week. 
• Movies: The Magic Pill and That Sugar Movie (see links below)
• Ketogenic diet – a lifestyle change.

Thought Quotes:

"Some of us just don't have any Earth Element in us and self-care is really rough."

"Time gets blamed for bad food choices all the time."

"Like Oprah, I was a gluten glutton for sure."

"Turn the Food pyramid upside down and see what shakes out of it."

Links in this Episode:

• Ketotarian by Will Cole, how to eat vegetarian and ketogenic
• Eat & Run by Scott Jurek, a great guide for Vegan athletes
• Floradix – for blood deficiency.
• The Magic Pill – interesting documentary on eating no sugar/grains
• That Sugar Film – interesting experiment on what happens when you eat the daily average of sugar
• Slow carb diet from The 4-Hour Body by Tim Ferris
• Dom D'Agostino – the science behind Keto… https://www.ketonutrition.org/
• Keto Mojo – blood monitor for Ketones
• Keto Community Group on Facebook
• Join our Facebook Group to see the Plant Energetics video that we talk about in this pod.

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"Laughter is the best medicine. Life doesn't have to always be serious. "

• Health is the domino palace — if your Health goes down all of your palaces start to fall
• Change your identity, combat the Lizard Brain. Jim Fortin's approach.
• Floating downstream – Release Rebellious Qi meditation (see Inspired Action App for free download). The acu-point for Rebellious Qi is called "Not At Ease" (Stomach 19).
• Doable strategies for change, not stressful strategies
• HOMEWORK:
  • Say mantra to yourself, "I'm in perfect health" and manifest perfect health. It's not a prayer, it's not a wish, it's an affirmation: "I am in perfect health."
  • What do you resonate with? What are you in alignment with?
  • Take a look at your overall healthy choices. Are you eating the way you want to eat or are you waiting for that perfect world for Oprah's personal chef to knock on your door? Are you drinking enough water? Are you sleeping well? What do you really want do to nourish your body? Are you thriving or surviving?

"People are either super obsessed with Health or they don't think about it at all. And they take it for granted. Which is sometimes the better way to be. Because if you're not thinking about it at all then that means you're in good health"

"Carpal tunnel was created by the universe to kick people out of jobs that they hate in the first place. They hate their job therefore their body kind of goes rogue."

"Now that it's February it's a good time to have one of these real conversations with yourself about what's really achievable and an easy path to change."

"Modern science is full of conflicting ideas and we're terrified of doing something wrong."

• The Nine Stages of Alchemy – take you on a journey of self-cultivation with the goal of helping you truly fly in your life and live your full potential
• Connecting Your Circle– The Five Elements primer – download the book below
• The Energy of Love– Love and The Five Elements
• Abraham-Hicks
• Jim Fortin – changing identity
• Alchemy Healing Center
• Join our Facebook Group to see the Plant Energetics video that we talk about in this pod.

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Love is in the air… are you feeling it? Learn about the Who, the What, and the Why in the Relationship palace. How does your Element affect your Relationship Palace in the Nine Palaces? Are you getting what you need in the Love Department? Are you a giver or a taker? The Five Elements and how they relate to your relationships. The only person you can change is yourself.

"If you're married to a zebra, don't ask them to become a leopard. Learn to love the stripes."

By Jaye McElroy and Leta Herman | Follow: Facebook and Instagram In this Pod, we talked about:

• How the Five Elements relate to each other:
  • Same/Same Relationships: Wood/Wood, Fire/Fire, Earth/Earth, Metal/Metal, Water/Water
  • Nourishing Relationships: Wood/Fire, Fire/Earth, Earth/Metal, Metal/Water, Water/Wood
  • Control Relationships: Earth/Water, Water/Fire, Fire/Metal, Metal/Wood, Wood/Earth

Thought Quotes:

"One of you is more like a child. And the other of you plays more of a parental role. When the parent gets sick… the child totally freaks out. It doesn't make sense. They're not getting what they normally get."

"These are the opposite attract relationships… they're spicy, they're hot! It's very whoooo, exciting."

"The only way they can take back control is through the insulting cycle… by insulting them. They bicker over every little thing… they're having a control fight all the time."

"Once you understand the energy dynamics and accept the fact that this is natural, this is life's energy working in your relationship. Once you bring consciousness to that… you go, 'Oh, I'm being insulting and mean to the person I love because I'm not getting what I need to explain to them across to them.' And if the other person realizes that's happening, they can work consciously to be a better communicator. These dynamics are present in every relationship."

Links in this Episode:

• The Nine Stages of Alchemy – take you on a journey of self-cultivation with the goal of helping you truly fly in your life and live your full potential
• Connecting Your Circle– The Five Elements primer – download the book below
• The Energy of Love– Love and The Five Elements
• Abraham-Hicks
• Alchemy Healing Center
• Join our Facebook Group to see the Plant Energetics video that we talk about in this pod.

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Do you want an extraordinary relationship? It's all about loving yourself first. Better relationships start HERE.

"This is all about you. All capitals… Y-O-U!"

By Jaye McElroy and Leta Herman | Follow: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram In this Pod, we talked about:

• Relationship with yourself – loving yourself

• Having a partner – romantic relationships. Are you happy in that relationship? Are you thriving or just surviving?
  • Yes, I'm happy.
  • Questioning it the whole time
  • Shouldn't be in my relationship but stay for the kids, money, etc.

• Looking for love: Manifest the person you really want. What Element do you want?
• Ho'opononpono – Advanced Forgiveness: Say this in your mind while thinking about your partner…
  • I'm sorry
  • Please forgive me
  • Thank you
  • I love you
• Phlegm – eating sugar allows you to stay in a difficult situation/relationship
• Homework:
  • Make a list of the things you want to be different in your relationship in a positive statement.
  • What's your intimacy level?
  • How is your communication?
  • What's your acceptance of each other's foibles?

Thought Quotes:

"If you're not in a good place with yourself, it's not going to go very well with someone else."

"The number one thing that needs to happen is both people need to want to change, to make it work. If one is unwilling to change, it's not going to work."

"If you're not the most exciting thing in your own life, that's got to be looked at."

"Once your spirit makes that decision not to stay, and you're balling your eyes out, the decision is made. You can't stay."

Links in this Episode:

• The Nine Stages of Alchemy – take you on a journey of self-cultivation with the goal of helping you truly fly in your life and live your full potential
• Connecting Your Circle– The Five Elements primer – download the book below
• The Energy of Love– Love and The Five Elements
• Abraham-Hicks
• Imago Relationship Technique 
• Alchemy Healing Center
• Join our Facebook Group to see the Plant Energetics video that we talk about in this pod.

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"Fun is such a dirty word. What are you doing for fun? When did the F-word become Fun?"

• 8 Palaces and the 9th is Home. You want to get home.
• Deep dive into the 9 Palaces – Career, Relationship, Health, Wealth, Home, Travel/Adventure, Creativity/Children, Wisdom, Prosperity
• The Magic Square and the Nine Palaces
• Career is a Water Element palace — Waters sometimes obsessively acquire skills.
• Job is what you do for money. Career is what you're passionate about.
• 20-somethings getting jobs they don't like. They just want to get out of their parents' house.
• Write down 10 things you love about your job. Loving something before you move on.
• Up In the Air, George Clooney, the Axe man
• Our identities are linked to our careers
• When's the last time you had fun?
• Shifting your identity — think, act, eat like that person
• Even if you love your job, reevaluate. Are you growing?
• Homework:
  • What is your job.
  • Do you love it or hate it?
  • Are you authentic at work?
  • How many hours a day do you spend on work (include dressing for work, driving back and forth).

"If you were just honest with yourself that you don't like that career and you took the steps to make a real change, not just a lateral movement to another job you hate, but a real change, you can discover what you love to do."

"What part of your identity do you have to change everyday to fit into this job?"

"Jobs are for money. Careers are for passion or fun or fulfillment The ideal situation is if you have a job that turns into a career that you get paid for."

"You better love your job because you're giving away half your life! Probably more. More than half your life to something you love or don't love."

• The Nine Stages of Alchemy – take you on a journey of self-cultivation with the goal of helping you truly fly in your life and live your full potential
• Connecting Your Circle– The Five Elements primer – download the book below
• The Energy of Love– Love and The Five Elements
• Abraham-Hicks
• And now for a Segway… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpEcI1Ak4MI
• Alchemy Healing Center – https://AlchemyHealingCenter.com
• Join our Facebook Group to see the Plant Energetics video that we talk about in this pod.

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"I truly feel that Inspired Action and positive action are more powerful than words. You can use positive thinking all day long, but until you get some positive action, things are not going to change."

• DIY Life Strategy
  • Step 1: Honesty – the buck stops here. No more excuses.
    • If you could fix yourself what would you change?
    • How many decisions do you make every day based on money?
    • Where is your career? Do you have a job or a career.
    • Relationship — do you have one or want one?
    • Health–how's you health? Do you want to lose weight, get in shape, or start a new routine?
  • Accountability–Am I accountable for the actions or I'm doing or not doing? Where are your January resolutions come February or March?
    • Non-judgmental-ness–it's not going to matter if I eat that one cheeseburger. I'll go to the gym later. It's a slippery slope.
    • Get an Accountability partner
  • Homework:
    • Imagine you're your own coach or work with a friend.
    • Pick one or two areas really important to you: career, health, wealth, relationship, or creativity.
    • Write three things where you are B.S.-ing yourself… e.g. something you're not doing but you really want to do.
    • Ask why you want to do it (or stop doing it). You need a compelling reason to shift your perspective and change your identity. Take away the obstacles and make a daily action plan.
    • How to become a Marathon runner.

"It's amazing how people fudge their own stories about themselves."

"Where is your career? Do you have a job or a career. The difference is: Do you have a job that you do just for money or do you have a career you love to do and, oh by the way, bonus! You get paid for it. Is that career your passion?"

"You need a compelling reason to shift your perspective and change your identity."

• The Nine Stages of Alchemy – take you on a journey of self-cultivation with the goal of helping you truly fly in your life and live your full potential
• Connecting Your Circle – The Five Elements primer – download the book below
• The Energy of Love – Love and The Five Elements
• Abraham-Hicks
• The Secret – The book | The movie
• Alchemy Healing Center – https://AlchemyHealingCenter.com
• Join our Facebook Group to see the Plant Energetics video that we talk about in this pod.

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"If you keep doing the same thing over and over… You're not getting what you want or even close to your goal, but you think it's going to happen. What's going to change?"

• What is an Alchemical life strategist?
• Body mind and spirit balance.
• Happiness–what level of happiness are you?
• Positive action is Inspired Action.
• Three groups of people:
  • Haven't discovered their passion yet
  • Know what their passion is, but haven't figured out how to follow it
  • Are pursuing their passion but need some strategies to fulfill their full potential

"Most people want to be happy. It's the first question I ask, 'Do you want to be happy?'"

• The Nine Stages of Alchemy – take you on a journey of self-cultivation with the goal of helping you truly fly in your life and live your full potential
• Connecting Your Circle – The Five Elements primer – download the book below
• The Energy of Love – Love and The Five Elements
• Abraham-Hicks
• Alchemy Healing Center – https://AlchemyHealingCenter.com
• Join our Facebook Group to see the Plant Energetics video that we talk about in this pod.

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"It's more than marketing. It's about how you talk about yourself, and how you present yourself to the world."

• This week's Ghost Point: Ghost market. How you speak about yourself in the world?
• What are your gifts to the world? Have you discovered your full potential yet?
• How do you connect with those who really need your gifts?
• Abraham-Hicks tells us to rendezvous with the recipients of your gifts.
• How to sell your wormy apples.

• • The Nine Stages of Alchemy – take you on a journey of self-cultivation with the goal of helping you truly fly in your life and live your full potential
  • Connecting Your Circle – The Five Elements primer
  • The Energy of Love – Love and The Five Elements
  • Abraham-Hicks
  • The Thirteen Ghost Points
  • Alchemy Healing Center – https://AlchemyHealingCenter.com
  • Join our Facebook Group to see the Plant Energetics video that we talk about in this pod.

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This free meditation for releasing rebellious qi goes with Pod 10.

This free meditation is best to do every night before bed.

The Journey to Your Higher Self Meditation goes with Pod 11 and Stage One of Alchemy. This Meditation comes with the Premium content.

"When you're being authentic, it's really about living a life that is you on many different levels…one being, not doubting yourself, not doubting your mission, not doubting your purpose for being here on earth…Trusting that you can and will make the right decisions in your life, and only you can know what they are."

• History of the Ghost Points and Sun Si Miao
• What a Ghost Point treatment entails
• Ghost Palace review from Pod 29 – your interface with the world (the in your face point)
• How you can get hooked.
• Ghost Convincing – self-doubt
• The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel – older generations dashing the hopes of younger generations
• Can you really trust yourself?
• Homework – Lung 11 Ghost Point

• • The Nine Stages of Alchemy – take you on a journey of self-cultivation with the goal of helping you truly fly in your life and live your full potential
  • The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
  • Connecting Your Circle – The Five Elements primer
  • The Energy of Love – Love and The Five Elements
  • The Thirteen Ghost Points
  • Alchemy Healing Center – https://AlchemyHealingCenter.com
  • Join our Facebook Group to see the Plant Energetics video that we talk about in this pod.

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"Has life changed the true you? Have you deviated from your true nature? If you have, then the ghost points are about putting it back."

• The Thirteen Ghost Points –  a treatment that releases the skeletons in your closet. Doing the ghost points gives you a clean slate to start Alchemy.
• You don't get hooked unless you have an opening.
• Ghost Palace – the first point. It's about how you interface with the world.
• The door to you – what is your true door? Has trauma changed your door?
• Your Homework – sit or lie down and vibrate the point for about 20 minutes.
• The Heart needs to speak – write in your journal or talk to a friend about what comes up.

• • The Nine Stages of Alchemy – take you on a journey of self-cultivation with the goal of helping you truly fly in your life and live your full potential
  • Connecting Your Circle – The Five Elements primer
  • The Energy of Love – Love and The Five Elements
  • Alchemy Healing Center – https://AlchemyHealingCenter.com
  • Join our Facebook Group

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"What do you want to release from the past? What are you still carrying around, like an albatross around your neck or a monkey on your back?"

• Today's listener question: What is Alchemical energy work? What are the Alchemy treatments like?
• Alchemical energy work is about transformation that happens organically without effort because it works at the unconscious cellular level.
• What are Ghost Point treatments? – Unload the trauma of the past and the skeletons in your closet
• Ling Shu = Spiritual Pivot
• Nine Stages of Alchemy treatments – uses a vibrational technique with acu-points
• Music in the treatments – your Divine DJ with 20k songs shuffled
• Stone medicine, Stibnite and Alchemical elixirs
• Born Perfect, Leta and Jaye's upcoming book about Alchemy (expected early 2019)
• Stage Two of Alchemy – releasing the baggage of this lifetime
• Your Homework: What do you want to release from the past?

• • The Nine Stages of Alchemy – take you on a journey of self-cultivation with the goal of helping you truly fly in your life and live your full potential
  • Connecting Your Circle – The Five Elements primer
  • The Energy of Love – Love and The Five Elements
  • Alchemy Healing Center – https://AlchemyHealingCenter.com
  • Stone Medicine – https://alchemyhealingcenter.com/stone-medicine/
  • Gua Sha and Cupping Classes – https://CuppingAndGuaSha.com
  • Join our Facebook Group to see the Plant Energetics video that we talk about in this pod.

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• • The yin and yang of each element – Oreo double stuff.  Each meridian of the body has an organ and an element.
    • Yang – more active/doing and processing
    • Yin – more quiet and stores something
  • Body types – Yang types are thinner and bonier; Yin types are a bit fleshier and rounder
  • Every person is on a continuum from yin to yang.
  • Wood
    • Gall Bladder/yang – makes the todo lists and delegates the plans 
    • Liver/yin – stores big plans and vision
  • Earth
    • Stomach/yang – hardworking, digesting thoughts and analyzing
    • Spleen/yin – present and listening, philosophical, storing big ideas
  • Metal
    • Colon/yang – talkers, finding the gems in the garbage, recyclers
    • Lungs/yin – holds awareness and being of service
  • Water
    • Bladder/yang – active fast waters, constant motion
    • Kidney/yin – slower waters, holding your ambition
  • Fire
    • Heart/yin – quieter and holds the spirit, supreme controller, the mirror to everyone else's soul
    • Small Intestine/yang – very active processing and sorting, the ear of the heart
    • Heart Protector/yin – more sensitive and vulnerable
    • Triple Heater/yang – more outgoing, loves parties and people

• • The Nine Stages of Alchemy – take you on a journey of self-cultivation with the goal of helping you truly fly in your life and live your full potential
  • Connecting Your Circle – The Five Elements primer
  • The Energy of Love – Love and The Five Elements.
  • Join our Facebook Group to see the Plant Energetics video that we talk about in this pod.

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• The Talk – "Talking is just another way that elemental vibration is manifesting through humanity. Think about the difference between between an assertive, commanding voice like an army sergeant directing a squad to do something vs. a hospice nurse asking a patient to move her legs. You simply cannot use the same voice for both of those situations. You have to modulate your voice accordingly, and that would tap into the Five Elements. You just tap into that element."

• The Eyes
  • Wood – Direct laser beam eyes
  • Fire – Flirty eyes
  • Earth – Big round eyes that envelop you, softer look
  • Metal – Defocused eyes, x-ray vision
  • Water – Cat-slit suspicious eyes or intense big eyes
• The Smells – If you want to figure out someone's smell, just walk into their bedroom and take a big sniff. Smells have energy. The Wood and Water smells are higher, and the Fire and Earth smells are in the middle like around your head. The metal smell is low, like down by the floor.

• • The Nine Stages of Alchemy – take you on a journey of self-cultivation with the goal of helping you truly fly in your life and live your full potential
  • Connecting Your Circle – The Five Elements primer
  • The Energy of Love – Love and The Five Elements.
  • Join our Facebook Group to see the Plant Energetics video that we talk about in this pod.
  • The Wonky Donkey video
  • The Wonky Donkey book

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• The Walks –
  • Wood – "You don't really have hips or knees. It looks like you're marching in a formation. Maybe we will make it cuter. Think of penguins marching. Think of an army of a thousand penguins marching with combat boots. Now that's a visual you won't get anywhere else because penguins like big shoes. And Woods like big shoes."
  • Fire – "You can fake a fire walk by lifting your heels up. If you do it more like helium is lifting you up from the top, then it will look like a real fire walk. In fact, your butt should wiggle a little bit. We call it the butt wiggle, just from the motion of the bounce."
  • Earth – "I want you stick out your buddha belly. I want you to rub that belly, really lovingly, daringly feel how you feel when you put all that energy there. You want to relax, you want to slow down, you want to be grounded… In fact, you know what? Take off your shoes… Earth people love to be barefoot."
  • Metal – "Imagine a string tied to the top of your head, and its holding your head up, and you're dangling from the string like a puppet… Let your hands and your arms feel floppy and loose. Think of Pinocchio on a string, kind of dangling. Lift your head and your nose, like you're a little snooty Pinocchio, and then you try to start to walk, but fluidly, not like its your first day on puppet strings."
  • Water – "Imagine tons of energy in your lower back. Feel it in your kidneys. Imagine you have two Harley Davidson engines in your low back, revving. Vroom vroom, and push your hips forward. Your feet just barely leave the ground. Waters don't scuff their feet, unless they're wearing Uggs, let's remember the Uggs days when it was really hard to tell Waters. We had to make them take off their Uggs."

• • The Nine Stages of Alchemy – take you on a journey of self-cultivation with the goal of helping you truly fly in your life and live your full potential
  • Connecting Your Circle – The Five Elements primer
  • The Energy of Love – Love and The Five Elements.
  • Join our Facebook Group to see the Plant Energetics video that we talk about in this pod.

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