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Stay Strange

by Betsy Johnson

Rated
4.8
Type
guided
Activity
Meditation
Suitable for
Everyone
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2k

Your real self wants to be free. Your strange self longs to be revealed. Your luminous self is just waiting to be shared with all of the other incredible and beautiful real selves out there. Do not bury your real self. Do you hear me? Do not bury your luminous self. You are so very strange. Please, please keep it that way.

AuthenticitySelf AcceptanceIndividualitySelf ExpressionSocial ExpectationsSelf Celebration

Transcript

Welcome to a hit of hope.

It's easy to decide to bury your real self.

It's what the world wants you to do.

The world wants you to be easy,

Simple.

The world wants you to be perfect,

Incredible,

Interesting all the time.

The world wants you to be on your best behavior.

It wants you to hide what is weird or strange or what is oh so very human about yourself.

The world wants you to be nice and quiet,

To shrink,

To be small enough to fit into a box.

But your real self,

Your luminous,

Your strange self doesn't want to go inside the dark and confining box.

Your real self wants to be free.

Your strange self longs to be revealed.

Your luminous self,

It's just waiting to be shared with all of the other incredible and beautiful and real selves out there.

Do not bury your real self.

Do you hear me?

Do not bury your luminous self.

You are so very,

Very strange.

Please keep it that way.

Namaste.

Meet your Teacher

Betsy JohnsonCastle Danger, MN, USA

4.8 (307)

Recent Reviews

Millie

January 3, 2026

Thanks for this ✌️. I love to sit down in a quiet room with the drapes closed and just listen to stuff this this ❤️

Barbara

February 13, 2024

I have sometimes been described as “quirky.” Thank you for giving me permission to wear that as a badge of honor! 🙏😁🩵🌺

Shaunna

January 31, 2024

A superbly strange and wonderful message? Namaste to you also

Merianne

September 7, 2023

I love you! That’s the best!! 😍😍😍 Just discovered these hits of hope and I am LOVING them soooo much!! Thank you🙏❣️

B

July 30, 2023

Powerful. Sometimes 2 minutes counts more than I expect.

Sloth

June 12, 2023

I DO have some of the qualities that are expected of people. But, I am not someone who feed others with “sugar and spice” if they are shitheads and don’t deserve my good qualities. My sister could tell you what a badass I can be and how strong my temper can get. I was so very shy as a child because I was so much smaller than everyone else. (I was only 2 pounds,4 ounces when I was born). I still am much smaller than most adults, but I found my strength and ability to handle myself after working with an excellent therapist. I now feel strong!💪🏻! Thank you for all of your meditations and helping me bring me out of my shell 🤩💕

Jennifer

January 13, 2023

It’s hard for me to hide my weirdness, and I stopped caring as well. I wear bright colors, wear stone jewelry and have crystals and stones in my office. I have had a coworker ask if I was a witch to humiliate me in front of a Christian coworker. I said yes, then lectured him on some of the things about his faith, such as the origins of some of the Christian holidays. When I was done, he turned to to the other guy and asked about all I had said. The other guy agreed with me, and said that everything I had said was true. That made the first guy shut up … stop … and think for a change. I stopped hiding after that.

Anshu

March 16, 2022

Made me a little sentimental . precious one ! Thank you ❣️

Laine

March 7, 2022

What a pleasure to hear that the word strange can be positive. Thank you.

Jamie

December 25, 2021

The perfect short meditation. I simply love this one and how it makes me feel so empowered to embrace all of my parts.

toosh😘

October 14, 2021

namaste 🙏🏻 to you too… i loved this 🥰 it made me chuckle 🤭

Paula

July 27, 2021

Absolutely love this 2-minute July of goodness and grace. Thanks so much. 🙏

Lucy

May 29, 2021

Oh wow. Thank you. This brought shivers all over me and in the end tears. This is an awesome reminder. I felt seen.

Lynda

November 15, 2020

If the world wants me to be easy or nice, it must be greatly disappointed by now. Love this talk. Reminds me of a chapter from "Untammed" G Doyle. Powerful words. Namaste 🙏 duck

Bryan

June 29, 2020

The "Do you hear me?" Part... actually snapped my attention back to the present! Love this, so much.

Kim

April 24, 2020

Thank you for putting a big smile on my face!!!!!

Elaine

April 18, 2020

Hi Betsy...you have seen my collection 😊. Living outside the box....with "sunshine on my shoulders makes me happy" on my answer phone..... 2y's u r 2y's u b I c u r As weird as me...never change!!! Stay safe, well and happy.

Ralph

February 9, 2020

'You're so very, very strange, please keep it that way'. Very funny and freeing text😁. Thank you!

Rose

December 19, 2019

I love being strange! I’m just being myself. Thank you!!!🌺🙏🏽

Matthew

December 3, 2019

Who gave you the key to my brain, and why would you want it anyway? Thank you, once again, for putting me in my place in precisely the manner needed and at exactly the right time. Namaste.

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