Ep.87 Expanding the Subtle Body (Aura) with a Plant Partner

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Hello, Hello, everyone! Welcome back to another episode of Reconnect with Plant Wisdom. It’s me Tigrilla Gardenia.

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I want to share with you in this episode, some research that I’ve been working on over the last few years. Now, this is one of those types of situations where.

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as usual, I think you’re starting to get used to this with me. I will stumble over my words, but I’m so excited about bringing to you this research and the work that I do both

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individually, with myself as well as in groups and with my clients, that I prefer to sit here and stumble through it and help you understand the difficulty in explaining this than not bring it to you at all so hopefully. You’ll bear with me, and you’ll understand that

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here in Damanhur, which is the spiritual community that I live in. We consider ourselves a laboratory for spiritual research. So research in the sense of constantly working on things, on studying on, really pushing ourselves on applying. That is a constant way of life. It is. It’s built into our very philosophy. And a few years ago I started working with a group to consciously expand my subtle body.

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and it led me to a very special plant companion that I’ve kind of told you about. But I’m going to tell you a lot more about in this episode. And I’m really excited about bringing this to you, because, even though this area of research in that particular group is not something that I’m working on. Directly

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it’s become an integrated piece of my overall personal development.

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And I think that that’s the hardest part to understand is that because, as a multipotentialite, let me say that in a different way, as a multipotentialite, I always have some area of research and experimentation going in lots of different directions. I’ll pick up a language for a few years, and then I’ll switch over to another language, or I’ll be working with a plant in this very specific way, and then all of a sudden, I’ll shift over.

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But remember, what I’m trying to get you to understand is that that’s totally wonderful way of doing it. If you’re a multipotentialite as long as it all stays and you weave it back into your deep purpose.

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and you understand how this sort of flows into your element or your archetype. So with having all these different passions and knowing my archetype so well, I’m able to then stop every once in a while, and kind of just take stock of where I am. And right now this is the perfect time of year to do this, because we’ve come from the fall heading into the winter, and in the winter we start to. So in the fall we pull back all of the nourishment, and we let drop off all the things that don’t

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seem to serve right. Now and then, in the winter we start to reflect on these types of things. And actually, in the following episode, I’m going to talk much more about a great way to do that. So you start to reflect on this, and you start to understand and integrate peace. So this time of year I will bring in everything that I’ve done, both

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consciously or like actively, I guess, is a better way of talking about it in this particular context as well as passively, things that maybe I had set in motion at a period of time. And now I’m bringing them back. I actually started to do this with the language. Again. I had started to learn

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German. I speak multiple languages, and I’m almost always studying something about a language. And so I had dropped off of German for a while and was focusing on some other things. And now I re picked up the German, and it’s been fun to go back and see how as much as I might have lost a vocabulary.

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The grammar and syntax that I was having problems with before is now much easier, and all of a sudden just flows. And that’s because in the time that I wasn’t actively studying German.

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Other things that I was doing I felt really comfortable and confident were bringing me back into. I realized that I was stumbling across the grammar, and so I set the intention of allowing that grammar to become a part of me through a different angle, and so working on other languages, as well as other elements of communication, have now made the grammar easier.

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So I tend to work actively, passively, actively, passively, but nothing ever goes away. And that’s kind of just that multipotentialite mind. So when I look back at who I was when I started this particular area of research.

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and you know, and working on my subtle body to who I am today. I can see just how much this journey has transformed my ability to imagine and desire. And that’s what we’re going to get into. And I can’t wait to share it with you. So let’s just get into this episode. This is episode 87, expanding the subtle body with a plant partner.

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Welcome to reconnect with plant wisdom. I’m your host, TIgrilla Gardenia, nature-inspired mentor, certified life coach and the founder of the naturally conscious community. For over a decade I’ve been known as a world ambassador for plant advocacy.

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working closely with plants to share their practical wisdom to help you consciously embody the elements of life.

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Your evolution in this podcast I delve into ancient and modern knowledge, from biology to spirituality, about the wondrous ways of plants.

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Together we’ll explore how ecosystem thinking helps you overcome limiting beliefs, understand the true nature of relationships and live an authentic, impactful life. Okay, so to kind of set this whole platform up to give you an idea of what it is that we’re talking about.

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We’re going to talk specifically about understanding. What is the subtle body? This is a term that we use a lot in Dom and her, and it might have different terms and different philosophies that you might study. So I really want to explore the subtle body 1st and its significance. Why is this important? Then I want to go into, of course, how it is that the plants

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in my case, how Drasenia really helped me, and can be an aid in reawakening and reordening your subtle body layers. So how is it that this combination, and why is it that plants can be such great partners? You know I’m always going to tell you that plants are great partners. By the way, right? That’s the whole reason why we’re here. I’m not here to convince you. I already know this part. What I’m hoping is, I can give you a little bit of ideas of how it is to work with plants outside of kind of things that you’ve tried before.

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and then I’m going to get much deeper into imagination and desire itself, which were specifically imagination, which is the subtle body that I was working about. And I want to tell you a little bit about the journey and what I have discovered on this by the end of this episode. I really want you to kind of have an understanding of what is the subtle body and its layers at minimum, something that sparks your curiosity to go off and study. We at Dom and her have a very rich

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understanding, because again, as we’ve been talking about, little by little, you know the composition of the soul, how the personalities fit in. And of course, once your personalities are connected. Connected, said the right word. Once you understand how your your personalities and understanding the layers of the subtle body that help you connect in and express through those personalities becomes really important.

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Also, I want you to understand, get some

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insight into different ways that you can work with and do this type of research with plant partners. Specifically, I want you to understand how it is that plants help you reawaken and train the different layers of your subtle body, and I want you to be able to explore and create your own connection and ways of working with a plant on this so

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I’m crossing my fingers, that I get really good at describing this stuff to you, because, as you know, you know it’s all coming through, and it’s coming into me, and I have a lot of clarity. And I read through my notebooks, and I’m like, Oh, this is going to be easy to explain. And then I sit here in front of you, and I’m like, and it’s just because I want to put it into a form that is easy for you to understand

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All right, let’s start off with kind of an easy question.

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what is a subtle body? Okay, not an easy question at all. But we’ll pretend it’s an easy question for our own purposes here to understand the type of research that I did, I 1st had to really get into what the subtle body was, and then from there I could ask the question.

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How is it that plants can help me reawaken or reorder layers of my subtle body, because I honestly had been a dom and her for many years. By the time I started this research, and we had talked about the subtle body.

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but I had never gone into it to really understand what it means

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in its simplest form you could think your subtle body is your aura right? So if you follow auras, you know that your auras are made up of different layers.

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and these different layers are subtle parts of your body. They are an extension of your physical form, or you could just say, the counterpart to your physical form, and they are different faculties and different abilities that are within the layers outside of your body. In Tom and her we know that there’s about

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at least 88, you know different layers to your aura, and yet we only use about 3 other schools I have been on talk about like the 8 main layers, maybe going out to 16. Every philosophy has its own kind of understanding, and if you’re somebody who’s done a lot of work with auras, and really understands the different layers.

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Get in touch with me because I really want to compare and contrast from. You know, the Dominhurian philosophy, and what I’ve learned from there, and what other opportunities could come and what other kinds of definitions could exist. So please contact me, I want to know. But basically, if you think about these different layers of the aura, what I learned in my study was that each one of these layers could be reawakened.

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prepared, even trained, which leads to the liberation of new abilities and experiences and faculties within you. So each layer holds some aspect of you at the subtle level that can then be

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consciously used in order for you to affect the physical layer.

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In some ways you could say that the subtle body represents the sum

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of all the connection points between the soul and the physical body. And so it’s what allows the sort of soul and the soul construction that includes the personalities to express itself in the physical form. They collect what’s thought of probably as paranormal abilities, because we haven’t been able to describe them or test them from a physical scientific perspective.

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And the exaltation right? That extra element of your senses. So in some ways, what we were talking about last episode where we were talking about your senses and expanding on your senses is also tied into reconnecting and working with the different layers of your aura or of your study body.

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They also contain different qualities that you might have acquired physically as well as non-physically, arts, that you may have learned some more creative abilities, all kinds of different abilities in generals. Basically, everything that is a result of your talents

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can be housed and or contained within your aura, and therefore working with your aura working with your subtle body, allows you to

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let me think about the great way. A better way of saying this. It allows you to flow between the physical and the non-physical, and to learn from both, and yet still apply it.

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And because it is the connection, point, kind of the bridge, you might say, which is kind of funny talking about my element, but it’s the bridge between the physical body and your soul. It also can. It’s almost kind of one of the places where both of these types of abilities, physical and non-physical abilities, inner senses, and outer senses. All these different parts can then interact with one another.

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So you see why I wanted to consciously learn how to work with these parts. I mean, most of us talk about our Aura, and we might be able to read our auras. I’ve had some amazing or I just remembered that. Okay, remind me near the end when I’m trying to tell you a little bit about what I discovered. I’m going to tell you about an aura reading I had after I had been working on this for about a year, because I just thought I wish I had it.

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I might still have it somewhere. If I find it, I will let you know, and I’ll show it to you. I’ll show you the picture of it.

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So you can understand, though in all of this, why I really wanted to work with the aura, because, you know, each layer of your subtle body is connected and sensitive to some form of your human faculties. In other words, the more that you connect in to the layers of your subtle body, the more refined your ability to use human faculties, faculties, and also faculties that apply in the physical

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as well as non-human, that also can be brought out through that they have characteristics and abilities that can be reconnected and stabilized for conscious use, and that was something that was really exciting to me.

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I decided to work specifically on reawakening my subtle body of imagination. That was where I chose to go. I kind of was looking through some of the subtle body layers that have been identified here in Dum and her, and as I was working I was working through the list and trying to also just connect into myself to see what would be important, what could be useful for me at the time I kind of had 2 goals.

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but in the end I tried to set the intention for both at the same time, and it didn’t really work. I ended up kind of going back to one.

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So my 1st one was the subtle body of imagination, because imagination is something that’s always felt somewhat distant from me as if imagination, in its fullest form, was kind of always out of reach.

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I tried also to simultaneously work on the idea of awakening something unknown completely to me. In other words, I was trying to get the plant partner that I had to work with me on

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finding something new, but it turned out to be too much. I mean, just the idea of working on imagination was so far out of my realm that it turned out to be better to just focus the research, or, you know, just let that be the main part. I wanted to turn something that was instinctual, something that just existed in some way that I couldn’t tap into or control. I’ve never been somebody who could close her eyes and kind of have

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a totally imaginative state, or somebody that could draw an unseen world, or who could experience and describe like as a novelist that just creates something out of nothing.

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And probably there’s some conditioning inside of me. My mother is a very literal person, and, as a matter of fact, we always joke in my family because my mother just kind of almost doesn’t get jokes. She’s so literal she doesn’t even use in my culture using kind of cliches and expressions is very

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common, and yet my mother doesn’t use these at all, which is kind of funny, because both of my brothers do. But and I think I kind of got the middle of it where I sort of use a few of them that I’ve learned, but I don’t.

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I don’t have a connection to that sort of imaginary world. I didn’t have a rich, imaginary friend, and all those types of other stuff. So

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I don’t know if it’s conditioned out of me to not be that way, or if it’s just something that wasn’t really awakened at the time of my birth. Who knows what it is? But it wasn’t there, and since this particular subtle body layer is connected. You know, imagination is connected to the inner sense.

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I don’t want to get too far into this, because then I’d have to give you an entire explanation of what our inner senses but endowment her as parallels to your

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physical senses. There’s also your external senses. There are these inner senses and 5 main ones to to be particular, and one of them is the inner sense of desire and desire

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is not exactly the same thing as just wanting. It’s it’s it’s a step beyond. It has a much more

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divine or subtle phrasing to it and and color to it. But let’s just say it’s also something that’s been outside of my purview. I don’t really desire for things and then manifest them in that traditional way. I’m just really good at

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kind of creating the next step and seeing how things move forward and expanding through there. So I wanted to try something different and connect that imagination to desire in another way.

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There are so many layers to this itself that I could explain. But bear with me, it’s it’s a lot of information. And it was just something that made a lot of sense for my life and for the way that I described plus.

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I wanted this because I wanted to also be able to work with my clients desires. Obviously, you know, many of my clients come to me with their desires, and they have very, and and some of them have super vivid, very active layers of imagination, and I’ve always felt that that was a really great way for me to then tap into it because my bridge possibility my element allows me to connect in and very much understand. At a visceral level. I’m kind of a chameleon like that I can.

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Chameleon is not the right. It’s a very empathic ability, and so I could bring that into myself. But I wanted to be able to meet them where they are. And so I thought that this was a great aspect

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also. So much of this has to do with alternative logic and lateral thinking. Really, the you know, the whole concept of imagination is around looking at things in a completely alternative way, or maybe even bringing in an entirely different form of logic. Now you know that I’m a lateral thinker. And the idea of expanding this skill was just so exciting, and especially to be more conscious in using it.

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because I’m really good at seeing things

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from a different point of view, but I wanted to be able to, which is something I’ve been working with plants, see things from a point of view that was completely unexpected.

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I felt super appealing of the idea of of really expanding even more on my ability to be that alternative, that alternative thinker and that imagine. Imaginator. Yeah. Imaginator, I’m going to use that word imaginator especially because with the last few years and the work that I’ve done with my communication skills. I feel like, especially right now, when so many of us are struggling to talk to one another and to

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get our points across my ability to tap more into that unknown space and imaginative space.

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Yet mirror that and not mirror. Marry, that with my communication skills, I thought, could be a really great way of bringing in that new paradigm that we keep talking about. I really want to be a more active participant in the bringing in of a whole new paradigm into our world, especially a paradigm that includes, you know, humans and other kin. So anyways, that’s just a little bit of my thinking it’s a lot of different pieces

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as to why I chose to go down. There’s a lot more that I can say, but

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in the end. It was a starting point, right? You need to have a starting point, and I felt like that was a really good starting point for me. And so

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because plants are alternative thinkers as well. And since they don’t follow your traditional, conditioned human logic, I thought.

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wouldn’t it be perfect to just work with a plant on this. Besides the research group that I was in, we were all working with plants. That was the whole point of the group. The group’s focus as a whole was on expanding and awakening senses, or, in my case, subtle body layers

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using, not using. Excuse me, working with a plant, and each person had a plant. It was really actually quite fun to to see also the different plants that people chose. One was working with an avocado plant that had grown up in her house, and another person was working with a spider plant. It was. It was a really fun time.

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So

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I wanted to choose a plant in this particular case, that kind of knew humans already. So a plant I knew I wanted to work with a house plant. I wanted to work with a plant that had a human experience, and who had spent time with their aura mixing in with my aura. And so

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I went around my house, trying to understand

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what plant could be a plant that wanted to partner with me. On this I wanted a plant that had that human connection, and yet maintained a certain level of other worldliness, because I feel like that

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combination of the 2 would be really helpful for the type of work that I was doing.

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and hence I choose to work with

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dracenia, which also is called mother-in-law’s tongue or snake plant, and and this was a plant that I had never worked with in this type of capacity. I’ve had always snake plants in my house, but not

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a plant that I had kind of made a conscious connection with. So the 1st thing I needed to do was ask whether or not this particular dracenia, which is interesting, that up until the time I started working with this plant. And actually, it’s not true other than this plant. I called the rest of them snake plants. Just

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it rolls off my tongue. It’s the way that I address yet Draenia, or, as I lovingly call Key no name, Dracenia, and we’ll get into. Why, in a minute.

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I’ve always called Dracenia, even though he is a snake plant. Now, if you’re watching on the video, you’re watching me point to the fact that Dressenia is in the background right now, and Dressenia sits in the middle of my. You know my office space.

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because Dressenia is, since the time we started working on this is always present, and is always a plant that I connect with on a regular basis, because, like I said, I might not actively be working on this right now. But I’m passively working on this, and therefore Draenia always kind of is there with me through this, and there are moments where I might, you know, do a meditation in the morning, or have a moment where I can feel Dracenia. Call to me and tell me, hey?

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Well, actually, Dressenia doesn’t say anything, but that’s another thing altogether, and I will get there. So

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when I got the go ahead from Dressenia that it was like, Okay, I want to work on this.

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It.

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It really changed the way I worked with plants, because up until now, up until then, excuse me.

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I would say that the majority of my work with plants had been verbal in some way, shape or form meditations or asking questions, getting responses. A lot of it had been through intellectual channels.

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There are other parts of my body that were coming online. And there were other senses that were coming online. But the end result. How I would get it from the plant, and how it would eventually come out of me was was usually coming out through words. Now you have to understand.

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You have to see that I am Cuban American, which means, as you can tell from right now. I have always

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talked with my hands, so much so that I have had a friend who in the past, when we would argue, would like hold my arms down to get me to shut up.

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So that tells you how much I talk with my hands. But even though I’m in a culture that technically also talks a lot with their hands, it’s a very codified way of talking with their hands.

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and I’m in the north of Italy, not in the South, so not as much expression as you would experience if you were in the South.

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So

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one of the things that I learned from working with Dressenia is about my body. My body became a very big part of this research, and 2 years later I am in awe at how different my ability

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to imagine is, and how different I kind of

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step into concepts, and how my my entire sort of way of being with

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new. And no, it’s not even new information.

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Let’s just say things have very much changed in the physical body, which is interesting when I you know, as I was saying before, the subtle body is, is what bridges physical manifestation and the soul’s desire, and the soul in general, and the expression of the soul and personalities. And I

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I agree with this like I have felt this in my own body. It’s as if I have access to a completely different way of experiencing and manifesting in the world, and my manifestations are crisper. My my ability to experience the world is richer, with more color, with more light, with more

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sensation, all coming through this sense of imagination. And so I I really at the very beginning

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was looking to. I invited Dracenia into this exploration, and specifically at first, st when I would study.

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I would. The 1st way that I worked with Dracenia was literally through my studies, because, like I said, I had to 1st understand what the subtle body was. So in trying to understand what the subtle body was, I started to do. Research into the subtle body. And what I would do was do that research with Dracenia and I would 1st set the intention, and I would invite Drasenya into what I was doing.

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I wanted to see if it would change my comprehension of the material if it allowed me to more easily find material that I wanted to study and to find a direction to go to, and this was something that very quickly was

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was confirmed to a certain extent, because there’s so much material out there about the aura, but also even at Dominhur there’s we have an entire archive filled with material, and it’s the archives not always so easy to look through.

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And yet, when I would sit there with Justinia all of a sudden, I found very important editorials and booklets that had been written around the Sarawari that I had never seen in my more than 10 years here at the time.

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And and so that was the 1st place that Dressenia and I started to work with. We started to work in together in helping find the most important information that would be useful for this type of experimentation.

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another step of that was to ask Dressenia for advice, or to for the direction of the physical experimentation. What was it that I was supposed to do, or what could I do to reawaken imagination? I didn’t want to go the old cliche way of oh, well, let me just sit there and try to draw by the way. Up until this time I had never drawn pretty much in my life. I am not a doodler. I did not draw. I

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I’ve never owned art materials other than like I found some colored pencils that some guests left in my old nucleo, and I had that I had never owned an art set, or I don’t ever remember having materials that doesn’t mean I’m not creative. I have creative, I mean, I have a degree in music, and I love to sing. So I had specific areas of creativity. But even in my music

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one of the things that was a little bit challenging for me. I have a degree in music, engineering, and electrical engineering, but it’s in the School of Music. So I had to take. You know I have my principal instrument, and I was part of the choir, and I was, you know, a pianist, and all these things. But I have always really just read music. I’ve never created music myself. I don’t have like. I’ve said that level of that type of creativity.

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and I didn’t want to just push that type of imagination and creativity onto myself. I wanted to see what would naturally unfold.

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So one part was asking Dracenia to help me study. I’m going to go looking through the archive. Now help guide me to find the right type of material, or I would read something out loud, and I would just sit, and I would ask Drasenia to listen as I read something, and I would let that sink into my body and see where it took me from, there, connecting in as much as possible to Dressenia to get there.

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But also I wanted to find what was the right way to experiment. How do I

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physically move this subtle body of imagination, and it turned out that that was kind of

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what exactly I needed to do right. I wanted to. I needed to start to move into imagination rather than trying to, I don’t know, draw myself into it, or creatively reach it in a more kind of artsy form. So my goal in all of this connecting to imagination, and eventually desire was

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to understand, to feel, to consciously relate in some way to imagination, in whatever way or direction that would take. I was.

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look, I’m a pretty logical person, I know. I don’t seem like I am, and even my alternative logic has a logic, and for most of my life that that sort of Taurusy side of me was really there. But as I’ve gotten older, more of this sort of Aries visionary side is coming in.

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but for me it always still felt. I know, that others won’t agree with this, because others can’t see 10 years in advance. But I’m a projector, so I can see 10 years in advance. And so where I was going, and my visions for things, my ability to

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to kind of show you. The bigger picture in my way of being is still a logic based response. In other words, even alternative logic. My mind sees how all these pieces fit together in a giant puzzle in front of me, and then I can describe that puzzle.

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There’s really not any kind of rogue piece, or any kind of odd shapes in those puzzle pieces before I started doing this work.

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It’s still very tied to what is known to me, even if what is known to me is getting put together in a way that maybe you don’t see it because my logic is alternative or probably neurodivergent. Actually, it is neurodivergent and all these types of things. But I wanted in this process to tap into something broader, something that was less tied to the physical world. I wanted to really

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think or feel beyond my limits. I wanted to activate a form of imagination outside of anything I had ever thought of before.

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because what I learned was that reconnecting, realigning, liberating, or even recomposing the parts that make us who we are in our subtle sense.

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gives us an opportunity to extend their fields of action, the more we sort of break them apart and put them back together again. We allow them to be put back together in ways that expands, how much they can operate in this world of form that we live in. It’s as if all of our humanness moves our subtle layers out of their natural order.

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Like the more that we’re conditioned, the more they’re constrained into this very tight pack.

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and doing this work gave me the opportunity to work with a layer to find its placement. In other words, I could take that layer of imagination I was working with, and probably whatever layers are connected to it, although I’ve never been able to. I haven’t actually tried yet to understand what those are, but to kind of stretch them and play with them, and and

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in doing all of this type of what turned out to be motion

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is unlocked more of their powers, more of their true essence, and in that in turn I was able to touch more of my own essence, my own true nature. Another good way to think of this

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is about like reordering your subtle body. By the way, you can also do the can do it not as consciously, but you can do some of this by walking spirals, which is why we highly recommend here Dom and her to walk spirals. But that’s another topic for another day.

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The thing is that your soul, body, your subtle, your subtle body, not your soul, body, your subtle body facilitates your soul’s ability to manifest in the world of form or in the physical. It aids in the use of your talents and in your connections with others, remembers. Our auras are so large that inevitably we’re bumping into another person’s aura every time we walk

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even remotely near one another, and that includes other types of beings as well. So every time you walk near plants, and imagine being immersed in your house. All of these auras are crashing into you, and so this gives me the opportunity to now more consciously sense my own aura versus the aura of others, my subtle body. How it’s reacting

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really know yet how to put into words everything that I’ve awakened

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or beyond what I’ve already tried to explain what I was looking for, but all I was. All I can say is that it was

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super important and changed the way that I am. It it required me to be much more attentive.

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and to have constancy in the work that I was doing, and awareness and Dressenia really helped me find much more of that notice. I do not use the words disciplined

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or focused in this period of this 2 years, if you go back through by. When when I went back through my notes to try to prepare for this this episode. I found the word self-discipline and focus, but I realized that

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this period of time, this imagination work with Dressenia

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helped me understand that discipline and focus are not it

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constancy? Yes, but constancy, because you’re so stimulated that you’re consistently doing the things that you want to be doing. You’re aware of it, and therefore you can make choices on it. You’re paying your present because you’re connecting into that plantness of yourself for that presence and that attention and dracenia helped me really understand all of this without having to put anything into words.

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Because that’s why I call Dressenia no name, Dressenia. Dressenia does not like to talk. All of my mental chatter

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kind of thrown out the window, Dressenia said, if you want to communicate with me. Sure, you can try to send me words, and that’s fine, but I’m not going to send you words back. I never sat there and received a transmission that I wrote down or meditated in, or had a meditative conversation

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with Dressenia. Dressenia would make me get up and move.

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Key held space even when I couldn’t, and Key helped me get out of my head and into my body

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and rediscovering my body.

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The the person I had been a dancer for so many years, and then I kind of dropped it. I had been an actor for years, and then I dropped it all these different ways that I had always used my body as a form of understanding and expression. You know the person that when she’s studying would like move around the room. The person who, when she’s trying to think, would pace back and forth.

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and who used

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so many other elements that were connected to the body, such as colors and perfumes, but slowly started to put them under structures. I had forgotten how to use colors and perfumes in a non structured way, because

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for a long time. Thanks to my Kabbalistic training, I was using them with very specific patterns. When I smell this, it means that when I see this color. It’s connected to this thing, and that is a good base.

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But the beauty of having a great base is that then you can deviate from it because you can explore, and you can check into that base and then see how you’re supposed to adjust it for yourself. Now, when I work with colors and perfumes and the movement of my own body. It’s with way, less structure and much more fluidity playing with how their relationships interact.

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You can say that in some ways this work

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activated my physical body as well as my physical sense of smell. Not so much perfumes with specific definitions, like myrrh means this or this type of scent means that, but more like more like what I was speaking about in the last episode, about allowing that scent in those chemical receptors to come into my those chemical signals to come into my body, and that my body would distill it. And then, through movement.

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I started to do. I just realized that I started to do Yoga consistently every morning 2 years ago, and that was totally organic. It wasn’t part of the plan, but I just realized. And over the last few months I’ve switched from like, you know, Vinyasa style like more movement, yoga to more yin and steep stretches that I hold in like a contemplative meditation.

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Wow! I’m just now as I’m talking about this putting together different elements of this.

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Ultimately, all of these pieces, all of this.

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which truly other members of my research group also discovered in the things that they were working on with their plant partners.

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What we all sort of converged on was that all of us plants, humans, every being is made of the same substance which is love.

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Unconditional love is really our true essence, and that when you tap into that, you sort of power, the generator that allows all these other different nuances of that love. And I’m not a lovey person like. I’m not the kind of person that talks about like Kumbaya love type stuff. So bear with me as I’m saying these words, because they’re kind of

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I am moving into something new. But it’s what allowed all of this.

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It’s what it’s what Dressenia taught me how to enter into rather than think about.

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It was what my body feels into rather than my mind has to convince me to do so.

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It just changed. And now I see I close my eyes. Sometimes sometimes when I’m in bed at night or yeah, mostly at night, I can close my eyes. And there’s this movement of light and color even in the deep darkness that I’ve never experienced before.

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There’s my clothing. Choices have changed. There’s a there’s a combining of things I now paint. I’ve never painted before in my life. And I I started thinking I was going to learn how to paint. And then I said, Screw it, and now it’s much more abstract work, and I’m not saying that

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you can have structured things with your subtle body of imagination, because, of course, your imagination makes up scenes and stuff like that. And sometimes you need structure.

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And I do that too. I’m learning how to

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how to connect into things that I’ve never seen shapes that I’ve never experienced before, and all of this is starting to express itself through me.

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thanks to this work.

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and I can feel that this is pushing into a new sense of understanding. What desire is not from the egotistical or, like, you know, base ego sense of I want, but more from the

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heart opening kind of gushy way of looking at the world. It’s it’s again hard to explain, but oh! So rewarding

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so many small little steps that lead to where I am today some conscious, some still somewhat unconscious, some active, because it’s what I’m working on, some passive. So whatever it is that you choose to do, just keep doing it. Keep moving forward.

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Keep

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thinking about new ways to stretch yourself, and if you’re doing something, and it feels hard and icky, and you don’t like it.

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switch to something else, make a small change to it. If somebody gives you a technique, even if I give you a technique.

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change one little thing in it. Make it yours, and ask your plant partner what to do, what direction to take, how you can collaborate and co-create on this. This is really a great way to do it. An easy exercise that you could do to try is if you’re trying to study something, anything doesn’t matter what it is.

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if you’re reading, for example, for it.

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invite a plant into the reading. In other words.

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stop for a second before you start, and invite the plant into the reading, read consciously, thinking that you’re reading for both of you, and then afterwards ask the plant to help you. Better understand, because again their alternative logic, their different way of seeing the world can help you better understand things outside of our traditional human logic.

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plus. It’s always fun to dance and to draw. Just invite plants in to more of the things that you do, and listen as they maybe shift it from the way that you’ve always done it.

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Just really tune into your intuition with the work that you’re doing with plants.

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and and follow that intuition. Follow what feels what you feel drawn to

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expanding your subtle body, with the help of plants, is really an evolutive journey. It’s a journey that takes time, but it can unlock some amazing new abilities and experiences, and by working closely with plants you can reconnect and stabilize different layers of your own subtle body for conscious use.

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And this will change the way you interact with the world, because, as your subtle body is interacting with others, it’s gaining new information. Imagine if it has the full breadth of its abilities when it’s having these interactions that are sometimes flowing through your personalities, but are sometimes flowing from subtle body to subtle body.

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This process not only enhances your imagination as it did with me, or any other subtle body that you choose to work with, but it also deepens your connection to the world around you, making you more confident as you walk and traverse through it as you make choices as you start to take action. And remember I’m here to support you every step of the way to help you reach your goals.

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And I’m curious in all of this.

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Have you ever felt a plant deeply influence your inner world

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like, what part of your subtle body are you longing to awaken or even expand? And are there specific plants that are calling to you as partners that want to be on this journey with you?

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I would love to hear your thoughts on those questions, and on pretty much everything I talked about in this episode, so remember to share your stories and insights about your own experiences with your aura, your subtle body, and the different layers that make it up in the comments.

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or, you know, come into the naturally conscious community. You know I truly value your perspective, and I think that the more that we share these perspectives, the more we allow ourselves, we help mirror ourselves and show us other opportunities. And if any of this sparked something in you, come, join us in the naturally conscious community the only space that’s designed to nurture these types of human plant relationships.

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But before you go before I wrap this all up.

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Well, that’s it. For this episode. Remember to resist the urge to hold back your emerging scene. Green brilliance!

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That’s it. For now bye.

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