G-DYPEELZW7C 1572007609577068 On Anxiety and Compassion with Shelley Bredeson (Ep. 3 in the Soul-Care Series) - A Lone Traveler's Guide to the Divine

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6th Apr 2023

On Anxiety and Compassion with Shelley Bredeson (Ep. 3 in the Soul-Care Series)

Join me for the third episode in the Soul-Care Series where I discuss the negative and positive attributes of the air element with astrologer and polarity teacher Shelley Bredeson.

With more than four decades of study and experience in the healing arts Shelley references her wealth of knowledge in structural bodywork, energy medicine, and astrology as we discuss the air element with all its gifts and challenges. (Especially the challenges within the gifts)!

In this episode of the Soul-Care Series Shelley and I discuss:

  • The negative pole qualities of the air element (heart chakra) including envy, anxiety, and overwhelm
  • How Shelleys own air imbalance opened the doorway to her life's work and passion (because nothing else worked as well as energy healing and astrology!!!)
  • Some super helpful tools to support anxiety, depression and overwhelm
  • A poem from my book which you can learn more about or purchase on Amazon here:   The Soul-Care Workbook: A 33 Day Journey Through your Chakras and Elements  

Summary 

Welcome dreamers, seekers, empaths, and healers! My name is Amanda Lux of the Elevation Hive school and community for energy medicine and dreamwork. In this podcast, I share teachings, musings, poems, songs, and interviews with other amazing humans who walk the healer's path every new and full moon. 

Resources mentioned in this episode:

Go to Elevationhive.com to learn more about online and in person classes in polarity therapy and dreamwork.

Check out my art at AmandaLux.com

I love to read them. 

About Shelley Bredeson

With more than 4 decades of study and experience in the healing arts, Shelley successfully blends her training and knowledge of structural bodywork, energy medicine, spirituality, creative arts, astrology and traditional medicine into her work and life. She is passionate about our connection with one another , the natural world, life energy and ways  we can create and co-create greater wellness for ourselves and all we are related to.  Her greatest joy is facilitating others in their own self-empowerment through cultivating their innate wellbeing-Body, Mind & Soul.

Follow Shelley Bredeson!

www.astroenergetics.net

https://www.facebook.com/shelley.bredeson

https://www.instagram.com/cosmicmarbles/


Songs used in this episode:

Alone/All One theme song written and performed by Amanda Lux

All other music by Les FM on Patreon

Transcript
Shelley Bredeson:

Cuz whatever, whatever the challenge is, there's also the gift.

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Exactly.

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You know, so those things that we see as , , maybe like bad things or whatever,

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there's good stuff in that stuff and you don't wanna get rid of that stuff.

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You wanna make a different kind of relationship with it so that it becomes

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your strength instead of something.

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Your mind tells you it's going to kill you

Amanda Lux:

Welcome to a Lone Traveler's Guide to the Divine, a podcast for

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dreamers, seekers, healers, and anyone on their healing journey.

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This is episode two in the Soul Care series where I'm moving through

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each of the elements and there are positive and negative pole attributes

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offering soul-centered support.

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Soul Care is a multi-dimensional version of self-care that I wrote a book about.

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Called the Sole Care Workbook, and today we're focusing on the air

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element, which correlates to the , heart chakra, which rules over the mind.

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Including our thoughts, words, and our ability to communicate and

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on the continuum of the negative and positive poles of the air.

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We have envy and desire on one end and compassion and

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unconditional love on the other end.

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So I'll be sharing the poem from the book that's associated with the

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air in a moment, and an interview with my dear friend and fellow

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polarity teacher, Shelly Bredeson.

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Shelly has been a student of energy medicine in polarity therapy,

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herbal medicine, and astrology for over four decades and has been

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teaching for a very long time.

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And I feature Shelly's astrology on my website, which is updated twice

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monthly, every new and full moon.

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So you should definitely check those out if you do not.

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In this interview, Shelly shares how the air has been the source of both

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her suffering and her power, how energy healing and astrology helped

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her overcome debilitating anxiety and agoraphobia, and she offers some really

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humble yet sage advice that I think you will find interesting and supportive

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So As we transition into the interview with Shelly Bredeson,

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which is very fun and airy.

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I'll begin with a short poem that I wrote from the Soul Care workbook on

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Air, Unstruck, how we swoon and flatter feathers flocking alone together.

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Communal endeavors that heal and restore promises of forevermore.

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Spring is breathing.

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Hearts are beating like a drum.

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Seeding our dreams of greener grasses.

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I am.

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We are Starlight, so bright, happily ever after.

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Mind over matter, new, fresh, restored rebirthed from the heart of the.

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To the Greatest Heights flights of Fancy Free You, me, whirling through eternity.

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So I'm here with my dear friend, Shelly Bredeson, who is in New

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Mexico currently where she resides.

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She's brilliant.

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She's a total genius.

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She's an incredible astrologer she's a polarity teacher and she's been in this

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work for so long that she doesn't even realize that she's doing it all the time.

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she's so steeped in it.

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She just, and breathes it.

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I do realize that I'm doing it all the time on some

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level, and I think that when I was introduced to Polarity, the reason I

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fell in love with it was because it gave me, a language of what I was already

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doing, but it, it helped me understand it, which the air element loves to.

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Put those pieces together.

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Yes.

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yes.

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Well, you're one of the airiest people I've ever known in the best possible way.

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I just ha it popped into my head like, oh, for the air element, we definitely

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need to have this conversation.

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You need to be in on this.

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Oh, well,

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I am truly honored.

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Really.

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I mean, when you ask me about, so I'm like, oh my God, this is

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like, I, I love the air element.

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I also have some challenges with the air element because I have a lot of air.

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And I do like to bounce because I, well, one of the things how I

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relate to the air is it brings messages, , it moves things around.

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It's not focused.

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We need the fire to focus the air without the fire.

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The air just goes whichever direction it goes in.

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Yeah.

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But it, it, it brings messages it's like, um, Oh, I can't remember where I read.

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It might have been John Beaulieu.

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Was saying it was like the air element is like circles of information within

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circles of information, within circles of information and then you find the

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connections in all of those things.

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It's all in there.

Amanda Lux:

I'm curious, how you would put it in your words, Shelly,

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some of the , quote unquote negative pole qualities of imbalanced air?

Shelley Bredeson:

Well air is, , it's associated , with the mind, our

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mental processes and, you know, having these human experiences, everything

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gets translated through the mind.

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So anything that can be, , dysfunctional or uncomfortable around the mind.

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So, , we could have anxiety overwhelm or scattered thinking or, , things

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that, , are maybe not so fun because air also likes to have fun.

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So out of balance, it's not fun.

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Right,

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right,

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right.

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Yes, yes.

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, one of the things that we were having in conversation earlier

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was, in polarity therapy, Dr.

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Stone put the negative pole of the air element as desire or envy, , so

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I, I would say in balance, in any kind of, , , mental process, which

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there's plenty of that, , , that we all experience to varying degrees,

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desire and envy.

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I'm curious what you think, , how do you notice that as an imbalance?

Shelley Bredeson:

Uh, desire is an imbalance.

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, in my own personal experience, there's been things that I have, , desired

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or longed for that were not mine to have, or not mine to experience.

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, and they, did not feel good, or did not make me happy, That's kind of

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like the desire of, , wanting something that, isn't aligned with my soul or

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whatever was wanting to come in, that if it doesn't feel good, then that,

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that is maybe the desire that Dr.

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Stone was referring to.

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I mean, any desire that is, like distorted, any desire that takes

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you to the negative poll to get the resource that you need there.

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Because I'm not opposed to negative poll, just so you know, right?

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Yes, yes, yes.

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Yeah, I definitely wanna say that.

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Of course.

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the air.

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Also, I just wanna say rules that communications,

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Right?

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Mm-hmm.

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The ways that social media is in our

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lives and transfers information is very

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air, it's immediate, it's quick.

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And that is huge.

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There's a huge amount of , our time as a culture that we spend in the

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air, reading and interacting with other people in this very heady way

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that's not actually embodied right.

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That's why it's so distorted,

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right On our phones, on our computers, through the

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news that we're listening to.

Shelley Bredeson:

Absolutely.

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I, I agree.

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Yes.

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Yeah.

Amanda Lux:

For sure.

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But also just in, in staying within the realm of the air being the heart chakra.

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Mm-hmm.

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Like finding your own frequency of truth that is not emitting judgment Yes.

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Via envy or desire or discussed or repulsion.

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Right.

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That when we're, , coming from a place that's balanced in our own heart space,

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we can take in information whether or not we agree with it and we don't have to

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get thrown necessarily off our, our path.

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Right?

Shelley Bredeson:

Yeah.

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It's love.

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What is, yeah.

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The, the higher expression, unconditional love.

Amanda Lux:

Right.

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I, I think another, , issue that is probably really relatable for

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most people within the air is, well, two that I'm thinking of now.

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One is overwhelm and the other one is anxiety.

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And they're a little bit connected.

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Sometimes overwhelmed can cause anxiety.

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, especially in the modern world where there is so much information exchange

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and it's around us all the time and we're being constantly bombarded by it.

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And that issue we spoke to earlier of the envy and desire being sort of one

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of the negative pole aspects of the air

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there is so much information that we're bombarded with and that a lot of times

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that can be really overwhelming and it.

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Throw us off in the air element through that experience of

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judgment or envy or desire.

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And that's very intentional within marketing.

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You know, almost all marketing starts with what are the pain points of your

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targeted audience and how can you solve their problems by emphasizing the

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fact that they have a problem so that they will need what you have to sell.

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Absolutely.

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And we're bombarded with that and it's very intelligent and it's very

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psychologically damaging, in my opinion.

Shelley Bredeson:

Oh, totally, totally.

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Yes.

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And it's so rampant and we're so used to it , we

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know we're being bombarded with messages that we're not enough.

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How do we weed through that?

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We, we have to like have a level of awareness, when we look at everything.

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So there's that aspect of the air that we live within.

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That is, I think, a challenging thing to navigate

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and that, one of the ways that that imbalance can show up is

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in overwhelm and or in anxiety.

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Just the amount of stress and pressure and expectations that people have on

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themselves and the amount of stress it takes just to live and survive.

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What comes to you when you think about that?

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, Shelley Bredeson: in, in terms of

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first identify where the imbalance is.

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Are you dealing with a situation that is like that?

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Is it excess air?

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And is, is it because there's too much air or is it because there's

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not enough of the other elements?

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Right.

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Because if there's not enough air, the imbalances look very similar.

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Right.

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Right.

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You know, like, I mean, like people who str I mean, I have, I have had, I've

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dealt with like debilitating anxiety.

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I mean, to the point where I had a agoraphobia, I wouldn't leave my house

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for a while, which is how I got into the healing arts in the first place.

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Hmm.

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A long time ago.

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, cause regular medicine didn't work.

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Because it's an energetic thing.

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Right?

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So, , the imbalance of air was like, for me All the right thinking in the

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world was not gonna change that for me.

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. It wasn't.

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I had to get out of my mind . And into my body.

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Like getting out in nature or getting body work, especially a polarity session,

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hello, because they work deliberately with those elements is, , really beneficial.

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You personally like you had too much air and it

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was resulting in anxiety.

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Yes.

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And that resulted in a agoraphobia where you were not able to leave your home.

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Correct.

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And at that point you said conventional medicine just wasn't working for you.

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You turned to energy medicine.

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Was that when you first turned to energy medicine or was that down the road?

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Had you already experimented or explored it?

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I was very young, so, I mean, I wasn't even, , aware of,

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, what was out there and I was introduced to, , , I don't know what came first.

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There was either an astrology reading or there was, , , the energy worker,

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this guy did this thing called Hands-on Healing, where he just worked with energy.

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That's what he called it, hands-on healing.

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It, it helped me relax back into my body.

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I was like out of my body.

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Mm-hmm.

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And it, I could feel the energy and it helped me get feel . Safe in my

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body because like, he didn't touch me.

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I mean, when you're in a state of anxiety, it's like, , hyper,

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anything with a hyper on it probably has a correlation to too much air.

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Mm-hmm.

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Mm-hmm.

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So that was, that was something that was really cool.

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When that was happening, I felt myself returned to my body.

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I felt safe in my body.

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I could breathe and I could reconnect with things.

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And then I could start like gathering my thoughts and even

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seeing what I was thinking.

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Cuz when I was in the state of anxiety, the thoughts were

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just like, I'm gonna die.

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Something's taking over me.

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I'm crazy.

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There's no managing your thoughts when you're in that state, right?

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With that kind of anxiety.

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There's no Right.

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Think.

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Yeah, there isn't.

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Like I did talk therapy, I did psychiatry, I tried medications, I did all that stuff.

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None of that worked.

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The talk therapy made it worse,

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right?

Amanda Lux:

Yeah.

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Just too much air.

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Yeah, too

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much.

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Yes, yes.

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, so that was very useful.

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And then the astrology thing was like, it was still words,

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but it was coming at it from a.

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Perspective where all these dots connected.

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And then there was this understanding of, oh, it's a soul contract.

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Cool.

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So somehow that just made it okay.

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Right.

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And then I started dealing with it because then it was like, , oh cool, well

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I understand this and this is just kind of like what I've a agreed to work with.

Shelley Bredeson:

So I mean, there's gotta be some wisdom in this.

Shelley Bredeson:

Right,

Amanda Lux:

right.

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I love that.

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It is information.

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It's meeting the air.

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In the air, yes.

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But it gives you connections and context for maybe why you're experiencing

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what you're experiencing right now.

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And maybe even could validate within that larger context how this is part of your

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growth and what you came here to overcome

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or work with.

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Or work with.

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Yeah.

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Cuz whatever, whatever the challenge is, there's also the gift.

Shelley Bredeson:

Exactly.

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You know, so those things that we see as , , maybe like bad things or whatever,

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there's good stuff in that stuff and you don't wanna get rid of that stuff.

Shelley Bredeson:

You wanna make a different kind of relationship with it so that it becomes

Shelley Bredeson:

your strength instead of something.

Shelley Bredeson:

Your mind tells you it's going to kill you

Amanda Lux:

Well, I just love too, that, like for you in your story, in

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your healer's journey actually, you were dealing with this air imbalance

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that led to extreme anxiety and that what worked for you was energy work

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and hands-on healing and astrology.

Amanda Lux:

And those are the two things that you've been doing.

Amanda Lux:

Yes.

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Like for over 40 years so what would you say those gifts were for you of

Amanda Lux:

having that experience of the anxiety?

Shelley Bredeson:

It brought me more to myself.

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Yeah.

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Yes.

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In my expression.

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, the gift of the anxiety was that , it was the doorway that opened up a

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path that I didn't even know existed.

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. , that I felt connected to.

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That I will be continuing on in this lifetime.

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And maybe it's from a past lifetime too, so maybe someday I will know everything

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there is to know about astrology.

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Not in this lifetime, but it's just something that has it, it feels aligned,

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it feels connected, it feels meaningful.

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It feels like there's purpose.

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Not just for myself, but this is also how I connect with everything in life.

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It's how I can be in service to others.

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It's how I can be in service to life.

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It's just, it's, it's in my resonance.

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It's in my field.

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And so if it wasn't for the anxiety, I wouldn't have found my own resonance.

Shelley Bredeson:

I guess it would be how I would say that

Amanda Lux:

That's really beautiful.

Amanda Lux:

So just moving through your own imbalance with the air element and

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the anxiety specifically, you were able to discover your own resonance

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and some deeper way of being related to yourself, and that informed how

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you relate with the rest of the world

Shelley Bredeson:

and how I can serve.

Amanda Lux:

Yes.

Amanda Lux:

Right.

Amanda Lux:

Well, specifically it sounds like the things that worked for you became

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tools that you started utilizing for yourself and then sharing

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with others and then teaching.

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Yes.

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And that's been your life path.

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And that was all started with, I have an imbalance and the tools that work

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for me now, that's what I'm here to do.

Amanda Lux:

And without that imbalance, you wouldn't have been introduced

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maybe to the profound healing capacity of energy work or astrology

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or any of the natural healing, cuz they, you know.

Shelley Bredeson:

Right.

Shelley Bredeson:

You know this path.

Shelley Bredeson:

One door opens up to another door and there's so much to explore.

Amanda Lux:

Right?

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Yes.

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Yes.

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And I know you are an explorer.

Amanda Lux:

Yes.

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And you've opened many, many doors.

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. And I just love that perspective and just that how that has

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been for you, if somebody else.

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That's listening to this was experiencing acute anxiety or knew

Amanda Lux:

somebody that was, and what would you say to them about that, that journey?

Shelley Bredeson:

I could speak to my own personal experience and just say that,

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you know, just because I was introduced to those things doesn't mean that

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that journey was like, oh, I'm healed.

Shelley Bredeson:

No, this is a lifelong journey.

Shelley Bredeson:

Right, right.

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It's, I mean, I can still get very anxious.

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, I've definitely got a lot more tools, but it's still, part of my sole contract.

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I'm still working with it.

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It's the, the wound that becomes the gift.

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So what I would say to somebody else, it's like, for me it was, it was just

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like feeling completely out of control.

Shelley Bredeson:

You can't control the way the wind blows, right?

Shelley Bredeson:

Yeah.

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You can't control, , anything outside of yourself really.

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You can, control what your choice in the moment, and that's

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all there is, is the moment.

Shelley Bredeson:

Yeah.

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When you're in that kinda state.

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, But I would definitely also say that, the things that that help

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me are getting out of my head or using my mind to make connections

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with things that are not related to the thing that's throwing me off.

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Because there's already too much energy on that thing.

Shelley Bredeson:

Right,

Amanda Lux:

right.

Amanda Lux:

. I'm hearing that one way that you

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you to balance the air for yourself.

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Being a very airy person who has experienced extreme imbalances

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in the air that have been part of your soul journey, , that coming to

Amanda Lux:

the body is really a helpful way.

Amanda Lux:

Being in nature is really a helpful way.

Amanda Lux:

Yes.

Amanda Lux:

If somebody is not sure what that means, like, what do you

Amanda Lux:

mean by coming to the body?

Amanda Lux:

How would you describe that?

, Shelley Bredeson:

it would be the earth element for those who speak that language.

, Shelley Bredeson:

You know, focusing on here and now and like noticing.

, Shelley Bredeson:

My fingers noticing, my hands touching the body.

, Shelley Bredeson:

There's actually a really good point to work is like on , the ball

, Shelley Bredeson:

of the foot there, it's a air zone , and you can . , touch deep

, Shelley Bredeson:

into the, that ball, underneath your toes on the bottom of your foot.

, Shelley Bredeson:

And that really can bring you home right now, right?

, Shelley Bredeson:

Yes.

, Shelley Bredeson:

Just like start making, start making like the opposite of air, like deep,

, Shelley Bredeson:

slow connections into the foot, opening up that foot . Breathing.

, Shelley Bredeson:

Focusing on the breath, using your mind to focus on how the breath feels

, Shelley Bredeson:

coming into your body that's using the air to get in touch with your body.

Amanda Lux:

So utilizing polarity reflexology, which

Amanda Lux:

is a whole thing unto itself.

Amanda Lux:

Mm-hmm.

Amanda Lux:

You could go work the zone of the air element, which is just

Amanda Lux:

under the toes in that ball of the foot going across , the foot.

Amanda Lux:

Horizontally.

Amanda Lux:

You could work that with deep penetrating pressure, which

Amanda Lux:

would be more earthy touch.

Amanda Lux:

Right.

Amanda Lux:

So that's kind of taking on the opposite quality of the

Amanda Lux:

air, which is quick and light.

Amanda Lux:

Mm-hmm.

Amanda Lux:

This would be deep and slow.

Amanda Lux:

And so using deep, slow touch and then also you were saying, um, breath.

Amanda Lux:

Really meeting the air in the air with breath.

Amanda Lux:

And would you say breathing slower again, like slowing it down a

Amanda Lux:

little bit would be helpful?

Shelley Bredeson:

Yes.

Shelley Bredeson:

Yes.

Shelley Bredeson:

Mm-hmm.

Shelley Bredeson:

But again, you know, yeah.

Shelley Bredeson:

I mean, sometimes you have to meet things where it is.

Shelley Bredeson:

And if you're real jacked up that maybe you just pay attention to

Shelley Bredeson:

and you start panting and then you, but you do it intentionally.

Shelley Bredeson:

Yes.

Shelley Bredeson:

Right.

Amanda Lux:

Love that.

Amanda Lux:

Absolutely.

Amanda Lux:

I mean, and I love that you keep bringing this up about

Amanda Lux:

meeting things where they are.

Amanda Lux:

And that's another aspect of polarity in how we would treat anything is

Amanda Lux:

first, before you take it somewhere new, you wanna meet it where it is.

Amanda Lux:

Yes.

Amanda Lux:

And so if the experience is like chest breathing and it's quick and it's

Amanda Lux:

shallow, then you start by bringing some intentionality and maybe even accentuating

Amanda Lux:

what already is happening so that you can.

Amanda Lux:

Observe and become conscious of what you're doing, first off, right?

Amanda Lux:

And then from there you can begin to offer it new direction,

Shelley Bredeson:

yes.

Shelley Bredeson:

Yes.

Shelley Bredeson:

Love that.

Shelley Bredeson:

Yeah, love that.

Shelley Bredeson:

I mean, and there's a lot more, but I'm curious, like what,

Shelley Bredeson:

what do you do for your anxiety

Amanda Lux:

For me, definitely like going to the fire.

Amanda Lux:

Yes, that makes sense.

Amanda Lux:

So for me, I would say that it's movement, you know, just being in motion helps.

Amanda Lux:

If I'm sitting still, I can get very mental and I can get spinning out,

Amanda Lux:

and especially in the middle of the night, sometimes if I wake up,

Amanda Lux:

can't go back to sleep, that's when I experience what I would call anxiety.

Amanda Lux:

Some of that's hormonal and I've learned how to meet that with different

Amanda Lux:

herbs and diet, different ways of, uh, allowing my energy to reorganize.

Amanda Lux:

But when that does occur because of stress or, or just life or

Amanda Lux:

whatever, um, definitely what has helped me is to just be really

Amanda Lux:

engaged physically as much as I can.

Amanda Lux:

So with yoga or with running, those are the two.

Amanda Lux:

Sometimes running is better for me when I have anxiety because it, it is

Amanda Lux:

that thing of meeting it where it is.

Amanda Lux:

It's too hard to slow down and get to the mat.

Amanda Lux:

Mm-hmm.

Amanda Lux:

You know, it's too hard to sit and meditate.

Amanda Lux:

I can't meditate when I'm in that state.

Amanda Lux:

No way.

Amanda Lux:

So it's, you know, meeting it where it is.

Amanda Lux:

Dancing is huge for me.

Amanda Lux:

I do a lot of dance and sometimes that's dancing in my room or

Amanda Lux:

dancing in, you know, community.

Amanda Lux:

Mm-hmm.

Amanda Lux:

But that really helps to kind of exhaust that energy that's spinning out.

Shelley Bredeson:

Right.

Shelley Bredeson:

I love that.

Shelley Bredeson:

I love that.

Shelley Bredeson:

I love that too because the fire element for me is what I do

Shelley Bredeson:

when my air is not moving at all.

Shelley Bredeson:

Right?

Shelley Bredeson:

Yeah.

Shelley Bredeson:

So it's like, how our constitutions are different really depends on

Shelley Bredeson:

how we would approach something,

Amanda Lux:

right?

Amanda Lux:

Yeah.

Amanda Lux:

Yeah.

Amanda Lux:

So yeah, it can be helpful to go to the physical , when we don't have

Amanda Lux:

enough air and we need to get it going.

Amanda Lux:

And it's like you were saying, also helpful if we have too much

Amanda Lux:

and we need to calm it down,

Shelley Bredeson:

right.

Shelley Bredeson:

For somebody, like, I don't have any fire.

Shelley Bredeson:

Yes.

Shelley Bredeson:

In my, in my constitution.

Shelley Bredeson:

I mean, you know, we all have all those elements for sure.

Shelley Bredeson:

But that's , the one that's in my natal constitution,

Shelley Bredeson:

that's lacking., I got Earth.

Shelley Bredeson:

So it's like I go to my other element that's strong, right?

Shelley Bredeson:

To help me, like get , the thing that's outta balance, back into balance, right?

Shelley Bredeson:

You could go to that thing that's strong for you, you're, you're a fire,

Amanda Lux:

right?

Amanda Lux:

Right.

Amanda Lux:

Yes.

Amanda Lux:

And that makes sense too.

Amanda Lux:

Like that's really one way that information through astrology or polarity

Amanda Lux:

can help you make those connections.

Amanda Lux:

Like where are your strengths.

Amanda Lux:

Mm-hmm.

Amanda Lux:

And I would say for anybody listening, they're not, , Exploring those different

Amanda Lux:

healing arts and they're just curious in the moment how to identify that.

Amanda Lux:

Mm-hmm.

Amanda Lux:

I'm curious how you would say, how would somebody identify, what are they, where

Amanda Lux:

are their strengths, constitutionally speaking, that they could go to?

Shelley Bredeson:

I should probably put something on my website

Shelley Bredeson:

that people could do that with.

Shelley Bredeson:

Yes.

Shelley Bredeson:

Cause I have this whole form made up, I'm going to put a little

Shelley Bredeson:

video out there on how to determine your elemental constitution

Shelley Bredeson:

based on your astrology chart.

Amanda Lux:

Oh, love it.

Amanda Lux:

Okay.

Amanda Lux:

So if you wanna know more about your elemental constitution based

Amanda Lux:

on your astrology chart, just go to Shelly's website and you can watch her

Amanda Lux:

little video and she'll explain it.

Shelley Bredeson:

Right.

Shelley Bredeson:

But I won't be doing that until mid April cuz of my son is coming to visit me.

Shelley Bredeson:

Yes.

Amanda Lux:

Okay.

Amanda Lux:

So look for that after mid-April

Shelley Bredeson:

2023.

Shelley Bredeson:

Yes.

Amanda Lux:

And my last series of episodes are all about the elements and how you

Amanda Lux:

can , recognize them in or out of balance.

Amanda Lux:

And this series is going deeper with even more soul care

Amanda Lux:

oriented ways to tend to those.

Amanda Lux:

So I think this is perfect for the air because it's all about information, right?

Amanda Lux:

The first thing to do is to find out that information.

Amanda Lux:

Where am I strong or where am I imbalanced?

Amanda Lux:

Where elementally do I tend to hang out comfortably, and

Amanda Lux:

where am I getting stuck, right?

Amanda Lux:

Mm-hmm.

Shelley Bredeson:

I agree.

Amanda Lux:

Good.

Amanda Lux:

Yeah.

Amanda Lux:

And knowing that, you know, sometimes that place that we get stuck, like you

Amanda Lux:

were saying, Shelly is also our strength.

Amanda Lux:

Right?

Amanda Lux:

Our weakest place is also sometimes our strongest.

Shelley Bredeson:

Yes, yes.

Shelley Bredeson:

. There's gifts there.

Shelley Bredeson:

I mean, always.

Shelley Bredeson:

Yeah.

Amanda Lux:

I think that's a piece that a lot of people can really

Amanda Lux:

relate with, like resource around.

Amanda Lux:

Cause we all go there sometimes, right?

Amanda Lux:

Maybe not everyone.

Amanda Lux:

I don't

Shelley Bredeson:

know.

Shelley Bredeson:

Or, I mean, well, the opposite.

Shelley Bredeson:

The opposite pull of that is depression.

Shelley Bredeson:

Yes.

Shelley Bredeson:

Right.

Shelley Bredeson:

And it's like that depression can also be related to an air imbalance, right?

Shelley Bredeson:

We, we tend to think anxiety, but you can burn your air.

Shelley Bredeson:

, you can have an air overload and burn it out and then there's nothing, you

Shelley Bredeson:

know, then you go down to depression.

Shelley Bredeson:

Cuz I've been there too from too much air, right?

Shelley Bredeson:

So like a deep depression where you can't move because there's no movement.

Shelley Bredeson:

Yes.

Amanda Lux:

Right?

Amanda Lux:

Yes.

Amanda Lux:

When the wind stops blowing and your, sailboat can't go anywhere.

Amanda Lux:

Yeah.

Amanda Lux:

The ship is sinking.

Amanda Lux:

Yep.

Shelley Bredeson:

Yep.

Shelley Bredeson:

There's that.

Shelley Bredeson:

And a lot of times the things that work for, it's not always the true,

Shelley Bredeson:

but I mean, typically the anxiety and depression live on the same pole.

Shelley Bredeson:

You know, they're opposite ends of the same pole.

Shelley Bredeson:

So what works for one can work for the other.

Shelley Bredeson:

Mm-hmm.

Shelley Bredeson:

Yeah.

Amanda Lux:

Energetically speaking, right?

Amanda Lux:

Yes,

Shelley Bredeson:

It's gather the information, listen to the

Shelley Bredeson:

messages, find your resource.

Amanda Lux:

I would say that air is also like heart medicine.

Amanda Lux:

It's the heart chakra.

Amanda Lux:

And so one of the things that comes into mind as medicinal wherever we are

Amanda Lux:

on that continuum, feeling anxious or feeling depressed, is compassion, I

Amanda Lux:

think of the heart as being a really beautiful place to cultivate compassion.

Amanda Lux:

And that especially directed inward towards ourself can

Amanda Lux:

be its own kind of medicine.

Shelley Bredeson:

Definitely.

Shelley Bredeson:

. Yeah.

Shelley Bredeson:

That's like that unconditional love thing, I definitely try

Shelley Bredeson:

to live in that all the time.

Shelley Bredeson:

Yeah.

Shelley Bredeson:

But you know, there's times when you can't do it for the self, it's okay to start

Shelley Bredeson:

doing it for the things outside of you.

Shelley Bredeson:

Yes.

Shelley Bredeson:

And then bring it back.

Shelley Bredeson:

If you can do it from the self and then put it out, it's like, wow.

Shelley Bredeson:

Right.

Shelley Bredeson:

You know, it's like super, super potent and powerful, but sometimes it's okay

Shelley Bredeson:

to start outside of the self as long as you're willing to bring that back in.

Amanda Lux:

Right.

Amanda Lux:

My daughter led a meditation

Amanda Lux:

we were singing this beautiful song, they're a very air, heart-centered

Amanda Lux:

person, and I actually interviewed them for my air episode in the last series.

Amanda Lux:

Oh.

Amanda Lux:

And, um, I heard that, yes.

Amanda Lux:

Yeah.

Amanda Lux:

They shared a song that was all just beautiful heart energy.

Amanda Lux:

It was just our family sitting around Christmas day.

Amanda Lux:

And they were sharing this song and then they led us just immediately

Amanda Lux:

into this guided meditation that was so powerful, just impromptu, cuz we

Amanda Lux:

were all in that beautiful place of singing together and harmonizing.

Amanda Lux:

And then we kind of landed and then they started speaking about imagining that

Amanda Lux:

you were holding yourself as an infant.

Amanda Lux:

And just rocking your own infant body, right?

Amanda Lux:

And holding it to your heart and just loving it and loving this infant self.

Amanda Lux:

And maybe what does it need, you know, from you.

Shelley Bredeson:

I love that you know, if you feel like you can't, give yourself

Shelley Bredeson:

that right now in the moment as an adult with all your, whatever perceived flaws.

Shelley Bredeson:

Like at one time you were a perfect infant.

Shelley Bredeson:

You could love that too.

Shelley Bredeson:

That is so beautiful.

Shelley Bredeson:

Yeah.

Amanda Lux:

Yes.

Amanda Lux:

Yeah.

Amanda Lux:

So beautiful.

Amanda Lux:

I think we were all crying.

Shelley Bredeson:

I

Amanda Lux:

bet.

Amanda Lux:

I so beautiful.

Amanda Lux:

I've also heard it, you know, offered, , where you could imagine

Amanda Lux:

a pet that you have loved, right?

Amanda Lux:

And then kind of bringing that inward into your heart, that

Amanda Lux:

love back at you, recognizing it's just a mirror for ourselves.

Amanda Lux:

And if we can't even love ourselves a as an infant, sometimes

Amanda Lux:

we can love a pet, you know?

Amanda Lux:

Mm-hmm.

Shelley Bredeson:

Where you gone with this, I really like this too,

Shelley Bredeson:

and I can definitely correlate this back to air because it's like, how

Shelley Bredeson:

are you directing your thoughts?

Shelley Bredeson:

How are you directing your mind?

Shelley Bredeson:

What are you gonna do with your imagination?

Shelley Bredeson:

.

Shelley Bredeson:

Yes.

Shelley Bredeson:

Right.

Shelley Bredeson:

And it's the, it's the fire that breathes the life into the possibilities.

Shelley Bredeson:

It's like the thing that heats those up and makes those into something.

Shelley Bredeson:

That's what,

Amanda Lux:

right.

Amanda Lux:

Yes.

Amanda Lux:

Brings it more into manifestation.

Amanda Lux:

I love the idea that that one way to work with the air is through the imagination,

Amanda Lux:

through words, through affirmation.

Amanda Lux:

Right.

Shelley Bredeson:

What you do with those words, what you do with that

Shelley Bredeson:

imagination, what you do with the, the, we are like our, our minds.

Shelley Bredeson:

If we could hear everything that's going on in our minds, we'd be insane.

Shelley Bredeson:

But if you, stop a minute and tune in, and then which things are

Shelley Bredeson:

you giving, which things are you giving your attention to, right?

Shelley Bredeson:

With those thoughts that come in, what, what thoughts are

Shelley Bredeson:

you giving your attention to?

Shelley Bredeson:

Because you get to choose that,

Amanda Lux:

right?

Amanda Lux:

Unless you're not conscious of what you are paying attention to.

Amanda Lux:

And then you don't have choice

Amanda Lux:

a friend of mine said to me once that, we were doing some peer coaching, and

Amanda Lux:

there was this recurring issue that I kept speaking to, that each time we would meet,

Amanda Lux:

I'd be like, oh, this is still off for me.

Amanda Lux:

You know, this recurring issue.

Amanda Lux:

I can't even remember what the issue was anymore.

Amanda Lux:

Right.

Amanda Lux:

I might still be dealing with it.

Amanda Lux:

I don't know, but I remember, doesn't sound like it.

Amanda Lux:

It certainly doesn't have as much energy as it did at that point some years ago.

Amanda Lux:

But what was really profound to me in the moment was she pointed out

Amanda Lux:

to me, she's like, that's quite the mantra you've got going on,

Amanda Lux:

that you're not enough in this way.

Amanda Lux:

And do you really want to be affirming that?

Amanda Lux:

Day in, day out, week in, week out, you've said this like a hundred times now.

Amanda Lux:

Mm-hmm.

Amanda Lux:

And I was like, whoa.

Amanda Lux:

For some reason, just the way she posed that to me really helped me

Amanda Lux:

to see that unconsciously I was reaffirming this issue by stating

Amanda Lux:

it over and over again as my truth.

Amanda Lux:

Mm-hmm.

Amanda Lux:

And that I was limiting myself by the way that I was attached to this issue.

Amanda Lux:

I was recreating the issue for myself and almost like affirming it, you

Amanda Lux:

know, like, like you would speak in affirmation, like, I am worthy.

Amanda Lux:

I was unconsciously using the power of my voice and my thoughts to feed this idea

Amanda Lux:

that I did not want to participate in.

Amanda Lux:

And I kept trying to approach it from different ways and give

Amanda Lux:

myself different tools to meet it.

Amanda Lux:

And it kept persisting.

Amanda Lux:

And so I think what I decided to do at that point was get really conscious

Amanda Lux:

of how I was speaking about it.

Amanda Lux:

Mm-hmm.

Amanda Lux:

And try to reframe it.

Amanda Lux:

And then also I did some opposite affirmations right around the issue.

Amanda Lux:

It's hilarious that I can't remember what the issue was, but,

Shelley Bredeson:

well, you know, I mean, this, this brings

Shelley Bredeson:

me to a whole nother tool.

Shelley Bredeson:

That I believe is true, our words are spells.

Shelley Bredeson:

Yes, totally.

Shelley Bredeson:

They're really magic.

Shelley Bredeson:

The words that we use create magic, magic, light, magic, whatever you wanna call it.

Shelley Bredeson:

But there's like the e that ef f t, that tapping tool, they tap out

Shelley Bredeson:

the negative things, and then they put in the positive things, right?

Shelley Bredeson:

So you, tap on like energy points.

Shelley Bredeson:

They have specific ones, but I think you could tap, I think you

Shelley Bredeson:

could do that intuitively actually.

Shelley Bredeson:

Right.

Shelley Bredeson:

You know, where does it need to tap?

Shelley Bredeson:

Yes.

Shelley Bredeson:

Right.

Shelley Bredeson:

Tap where, and tap, tap out that stuff with the intention of tapping

Shelley Bredeson:

it out and then tapping it in.

Shelley Bredeson:

I mean, like a lot of times I'll just tap on my thymus, right?

Shelley Bredeson:

This is my go-to now when I start feeling anxious, , I'll just

Shelley Bredeson:

like, Tap right here and breathe.

Shelley Bredeson:

And it's like, okay, everything's good.

Shelley Bredeson:

So

Amanda Lux:

lightly tapping with your fingers on your chest, on your

Amanda Lux:

thymus, over your heart chakra.

Amanda Lux:

And I love that you brought up E F T in case anybody doesn't know what that is.

Amanda Lux:

It's energy freedom technique.

Amanda Lux:

And you can look that up, , but there's specific coordinates, certain

Amanda Lux:

energy points that you would tap on saying these words in a certain order.

Amanda Lux:

But you could do that intuitively.

Amanda Lux:

And I love that.

Amanda Lux:

I love the way you brought that in, , that for you, one way to meet your

Amanda Lux:

anxiety when it does come up is to just tap lightly there on the thymus.

Amanda Lux:

. You could say, first the limiting belief, the challenge and then

Amanda Lux:

you could replace it, right?

Amanda Lux:

With the one that feels, well, what's the truth you're choosing consciously

Amanda Lux:

instead of the one that you're running unconsciously in reacting to.

Shelley Bredeson:

Right.

Shelley Bredeson:

So what is the truth that you choose for yourself now after

Shelley Bredeson:

that last limiting belief?

Amanda Lux:

Are you asking me directly?

Amanda Lux:

Yes.

Amanda Lux:

I can't remember the exact limiting belief right.

Amanda Lux:

That I was dealing with at that time when she said it.

Amanda Lux:

But I've had many, Shelly, I'm a human being on my spiritual journey.

Amanda Lux:

Yes.

Amanda Lux:

And I've had many limiting beliefs, and I have done this with many of them.

Amanda Lux:

I would say one of the most prevalent that, uh, I have dealt

Amanda Lux:

with is just not enough time.

Amanda Lux:

I don't have enough time, and I make myself so busy and I

Amanda Lux:

have this mantra that I run.

Amanda Lux:

I don't have enough time, or I'm too busy, I'm overwhelmed.

Amanda Lux:

Yes, yes.

Amanda Lux:

And that's a belief.

Amanda Lux:

It's also a condition that I have then created mm-hmm.

Amanda Lux:

In response to that belief.

Amanda Lux:

And it's a feedback loop.

Amanda Lux:

It's a cycle.

Amanda Lux:

And, We do call.

Amanda Lux:

Loops in polarity, that's in the second communications class.

Amanda Lux:

We dissect those and how to break 'em.

Amanda Lux:

Right, right, right.

Amanda Lux:

Break free of our loops.

Amanda Lux:

There are methods to that within polarity in the more advanced ways.

Amanda Lux:

But, you know, I think this is an interesting conversation because Right.

Amanda Lux:

Thinking or being conscious of how you're thinking and choosing, , healthful

Amanda Lux:

thought patterns that can propel you in the direction you wanna go

Amanda Lux:

is an aspect of polarity therapy.

Amanda Lux:

That is a way that we, that we meet energy.

Amanda Lux:

Because energy does come through thoughts and it comes through words.

Amanda Lux:

Yes.

Amanda Lux:

Thoughts.

Amanda Lux:

And I love what you said about words are spells, which is true

Amanda Lux:

because what do spells do is they create something out of nothing.

Amanda Lux:

Right?

Amanda Lux:

Yes.

Amanda Lux:

And that's what words do too.

Amanda Lux:

We speak something, we're giving energy to it.

Amanda Lux:

Eventually, if there's enough energy there, it becomes form.

Amanda Lux:

And the first step of that is to speak it.

Amanda Lux:

So what are the spells that we have?

Amanda Lux:

I think the

Shelley Bredeson:

first step is to

Amanda Lux:

think it.

Amanda Lux:

Think it, speak it.

Amanda Lux:

Yeah.

Amanda Lux:

Yes.

Shelley Bredeson:

Once you speak it, it's getting that much closer to form.

Shelley Bredeson:

Oh, for sure.

Shelley Bredeson:

Now in the material

Amanda Lux:

world.

Amanda Lux:

Yes.

Amanda Lux:

It's now here with, with a vibration that is measurable, right?

Amanda Lux:

Yes.

Amanda Lux:

Yeah.

Amanda Lux:

So how do we wanna use that power, ? The power of our words

Amanda Lux:

and the power of our thoughts.

Amanda Lux:

How do we wanna use those?

Amanda Lux:

Right.

Amanda Lux:

A good question.

Amanda Lux:

I mean, , I utilize affirmations a ton.

Amanda Lux:

I always.

Amanda Lux:

Ever since I was little, I grew up with Louise Hay, like, you know, grow.

Amanda Lux:

I grew up with the, the whole new age thing of, words were medicine.

Amanda Lux:

Yes.

Amanda Lux:

Specific ailments.

Amanda Lux:

And they are medicine.

Amanda Lux:

Yes.

Amanda Lux:

I'm just saying like, as a child, I started to work with that as a

Amanda Lux:

child and it was so powerful for me, you know, having that experience.

Amanda Lux:

Yet I still didn't catch, you know, we're always a work in progress,

Amanda Lux:

but I still didn't catch that time when my friend pointed it out to me.

Amanda Lux:

Oh, that's an interesting mantra.

Amanda Lux:

Yes, yes.

Amanda Lux:

What kinda spell are you weaving there?

Shelley Bredeson:

Well, if you didn't have a friend to talk to you

Shelley Bredeson:

about that, how would've you even known that you were doing that?

Shelley Bredeson:

Right?

Amanda Lux:

Yes.

Amanda Lux:

Yes.

Amanda Lux:

Well, we are, we are reflections for each other and we do

Amanda Lux:

need connections, you know?

Amanda Lux:

That is very helpful.

Amanda Lux:

Is there any kind of completing thoughts that you wanna share, Shelly?

Amanda Lux:

Anything that would feel like it would wrap up this conversation?

Shelley Bredeson:

No, I just want to thank you so much for, asking

Shelley Bredeson:

me to do this with you and having a conversation with you.

Shelley Bredeson:

I just, I love you, number one.

Shelley Bredeson:

Aww.

Shelley Bredeson:

But I, I love your podcast.

Shelley Bredeson:

I listen all the time.

Shelley Bredeson:

I actually, I love everything you do.

Shelley Bredeson:

Aw.

Shelley Bredeson:

You're just such a true, authentic, loving, caring, beautiful soul,

Shelley Bredeson:

and I'm so grateful to be on the planet with you at this time because

Shelley Bredeson:

I really believe that you are.

Shelley Bredeson:

You are holding something for all of us, and you're sharing

Shelley Bredeson:

something for all of us too.

Shelley Bredeson:

So I'm just, I'm so grateful to be with you, so thank you so much.

Amanda Lux:

Aw, Shelly, thank you so much that I really take that

Amanda Lux:

into my heart and receive your words and I feel so, so honored.

Amanda Lux:

So thank you for sharing that.

Amanda Lux:

And I'm also really honored just to have you have you here and sharing your wisdom.

Amanda Lux:

Thank you.

Amanda Lux:

Yes, and I really look forward to co-teaching with you.

Amanda Lux:

Shelly and I are gonna be teaching an energetic nutrition and cleanse class

Amanda Lux:

at some point soon, or Yes, who knows at what point you're listening to this, but

Amanda Lux:

you can check my website for that because once we have taught it live, there will

Amanda Lux:

be an online course available around it.

Amanda Lux:

So I'm excited to collaborate around that.

Amanda Lux:

And Me too.

Amanda Lux:

Yeah.

Amanda Lux:

Thank you for sharing some of your story and your wisdom, it was a total pleasure.

Amanda Lux:

So thank you.

Amanda Lux:

Thank you

Amanda Lux:

. Thank you, Shelly.

Amanda Lux:

Thank you so much for listening to this episode of a Lone

Amanda Lux:

Traveler's Guide to the Divine.

Amanda Lux:

You can learn more about Shelly bredeson@astroenergetics.net.

Amanda Lux:

You can also find her on Facebook at Shelly Bredeson or

Amanda Lux:

on Instagram at Cosmic Marble.

Amanda Lux:

Shelly is so incredibly cool and offers astrology readings and

Amanda Lux:

has many cool online courses and creative offerings in the works.

Amanda Lux:

She is,

Amanda Lux:

and you can find those links in my show notes

Amanda Lux:

if you'd like to learn more about.

Amanda Lux:

You can learn more about my upcoming classes that are happening in person

Amanda Lux:

in Olympia, Washington on polarity therapy and dreamwork@elevationhive.com.

Amanda Lux:

As always, I appreciate you sharing this episode with a friend and if you found

Amanda Lux:

it helpful or interesting, you're welcome to leave a review on Apple Podcast.

Amanda Lux:

Or wherever you are listening.

Amanda Lux:

Thank you so much for participating with your energy.

Amanda Lux:

It is such an honor to be in sacred community with you.

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A Lone Traveler's Guide to the Divine
For explorers of DreamWork and Energy Medicine
Welcome dreamers, healers, empaths, seekers, and anyone interested in exploring what it means to be a soul on your journey, in these times.

This podcast is a place to come home to in the sanctuary of the great mystery, where the subtler things in life are seen and listened to, where healing is possible through the sharing of poetry, dreams, teachings, interviews and inspiration. This is a place to feel held in sacred community.

Because it can be lonely AF traversing the multiverse, evolving, awakening, harnessing the potency of our dreams, exploring the tools and techniques of energy medicine.

And it takes tremendous courage to tune-in stead of tune-out, to be a light bearer who faces the shadow through conscious exploration, daring to activate our highest potential.

But it is the kind of work that is worth doing. And it is so much more fun, interesting, profound and entertaining when we do it together!

Hosted by Amanda Lux; artist, mother, author, registered polarity educator and founder of the Elevation Hive School and Community for Energy Medicine and DreamWork.

Tune in every new and full moon for meditations, energy balancing and embodiment practices based in Polarity Therapy, dream sharing and fascinating conversations about what it means to live awake in this dream called life.

Free courses and community are waiting for you at ElevationHive.com
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Amanda Lux

I am an artist, author, mother, educator and creator of the Elevation Hive School of Energy Medicine and DreamWork. My greatest desire is to be in conscious community with like-minded individuals who are dedicated to personal growth and evolving themselves in service of the collective.

I also love quality coffee, Ashtanga yoga, traveling the cosmos and introverting with my small but mighty dog, Miss Riley Rose.

If you enjoy this podcast you should head over to elevationhive.com and check out our private community membership where we have a dream sharing forum and free classes galore. I read and personally respond to every dream shared because, well, that's probably my biggest passion!