Speaker 0 00:00:00 Welcome to the Guide Within podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Jacqueline, Senator, and we'll be discussing consciousness, spirituality, and integrative health. I look forward to sharing these topics with you, so stay tuned.
Speaker 0 00:01:07 Welcome to the Guide Within podcast. This episode is on gathering. This is that time of year again when we spend a lot of time gathering together, hoping we'll all get along, hoping that this will be a special occasion. Gathering is such a sacred event, and oftentimes we get it confused with the idea of something we have to do out of an obligation, or it's an excuse to come together to consume a lot of calories, <laugh>, or in some cases it's an invitation to commune together and to really share something and be a part of a group that cares. Gathering when we think of why we come together is a wonderful thing to spend a little time on because it reveals not just what we expect to experience, but it sets us into motion where we are aligning ourselves with what type of energy we're going to contribute to the gathering as we go into attend it.
Speaker 0 00:02:17 One of the things that I'd like to think about is why are we gathering? What are we getting out of this place of gathering in the sense of what are we gathering meta, physically, what kind of energy do we take together and leave with after we've gathered? This brings up the idea of how we gather and what we want to attain as we gather. Is it balance and wellness, harmony in our relationships, and not just with each other, but with ourselves. There's a higher vibration in the thoughts when we, we carry it into action, and gathering together is an opportunity to bring our vibration, our thoughts into action where we can affect others and we can also be affected. Sometimes it feels unsafe to come together with certain people. We may feel that we've had bad experiences in the past, but through a family obligation or through circumstances, we find ourselves having to gather once again with this individual.
Speaker 0 00:03:32 There's a useful technique that I'd like to share that can help navigate those situations when we are in the proximity of somebody who challenges us to be authentic or who is in some ways just not nice to be around. This person is in some ways struggling with themselves, right? They're uncomfortable, they're in pain. There's something going around where they're not happy. People who aren't happy oftentimes share their unhappiness, not so much because they want to change as odd as that sounds, but because they want others to join them, they feel hopeless in that place they're at, and they're not searching for a way out all the time. Being with others who are in another place can be very conflicting for them. It can make them feel as uncomfortable being around somebody who's not in the same space they're in as it is to be around them, not sharing that same space within ourselves. Understanding first and foremost, that as we gather and we come together, we are each carrying our own experience. It informs how it is that we will participate in the gathering, in the metaphysical sense. What we're offering when we gather is a part of ourselves, and what we take when we leave is a little bit of what everybody offered and a great deal of what we consumed by being there, right? Because that generates its own experience.
Speaker 0 00:05:18 As we participate in gathering, there's their technique that's very helpful to enjoy participating. It involves a technique that I like to call loving detachment. Having loving detachment means meeting people where they are compassionately, allowing yourself to release attachment and making judgment rather to witness what they're communicating. Why are they communicating this way? What are they getting from communicating and expressing this way of being both to you and the group? This reveals a great deal about what this soul is bringing to the gathering and by witnessing it with a loving detachment, with reserve from feeling as though it's reflective in response to you, but rather an expression of themselves makes it easier to be present for them, and to also stand in our own place of being empathically aware of what's going on and how it informs us by being there. What do we feel in this?
Speaker 0 00:06:41 And we can own that by keeping a distance, keeping a distance so that we can be observant, witnessing, and not reacting. The next teaching that comes up about gathering together is interactions, right? It's not just what we're bringing of ourselves into the group, but it's also how we respond to what others bring into the group. That's the next level of what we offer of ourselves. It's how we respond, right? So it's one part who you are in the sense of how you show up, and then secondly, how you are in how you respond to things once you've shown up, and it's important to look at this as an opportunity to respond with how you wish to be authentic. And when you practice loving detachment, it becomes easier not to feel threatened, not to go for the argument or to try to change somebody else's mind, to convince them, because you're standing in your inner knowing and that inner knowing is enough for you, authentically because this is your truth, and having that awareness is very freeing because then you're no longer campaigning for other people to validate you. You are validated from within, and that's far more powerful. Getting back to how we engage with these relationships during the gathering is important.
Speaker 0 00:08:28 Remembering that we have the opportunity to respond. How we choose is vitally important because we can determine our own experience by how it is that we show up and how we respond. So there are some things that we can do to ensure that as we show up in our authentic self, that we also do something to add to the field. Going back to the idea of meta physically gathering or looking at what we meta physically offer in the gathering also comes back to the opportunity we can take to raise the field, because as we gather, each soul is contributing to that field. The field of where you gather on an energetic realm, it's what it is that you're taking in mentally, emotionally, and physically through the experience of shared space. So you could take it as an opportunity to charge that space with positive vibrational field.
Speaker 0 00:09:31 Practicing, being genuinely grateful, recognizing the good value or benefit that someone is offering. You can be positive in your contributions by being prepared with fun facts, positive stories, things that you wanna share from the heart, or noticing the good, the basic good that surround you in the gathering, whether it's the food, the weather, the company, or the comfort of someone's smile. This would make the gathering really special by being authentic and being in a positive light to raise the vibration for everybody's experience. I wish you the very best in your gatherings this year and every year. Thanks for listening, Nama Day. Thank you for listening to The Guide Within podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Jacqueline. Senator. If you've enjoyed any of the topics you've heard today and would like more information, please visit the
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