Hello and welcome back to Unleash Your Peace.
My name is Ellie Shoja.
I am your host.
I'm a positive mindset coach,
A personal transformation expert.
I'm a deliberate creator and your peace trainer.
And this podcast over here,
Unleash Your Peace,
Is your peace training.
Every single week,
We dive into a different topic about the internal world.
We do that over the course of five episodes published Monday through Friday.
And the whole point of this is to go inward.
That's where your peace resides.
That's where you can start shedding all of this unwanted pain,
All this excess baggage you're carrying.
And that is where your best life comes from.
Because when we live from that place of joy and peace and connectedness to that internal,
That infinite beingness of us,
That non-physical that holds all of our potential,
We don't just incrementally improve the quality of our lives.
We actually exponentially innovate every aspect of our experiences on this physical plane.
We become whole.
We become powerful creators.
We actually become deliberate creators.
And we start uplifting,
Inspiring everyone who comes our way.
And that trickles out into the world.
Next thing you know,
We're leveling up as a society,
As a human race.
And that is my wish for all of us.
It's essentially my ulterior motive with doing all of this work that I do.
Now,
This week we have a huge,
Huge topic.
We're talking about vulnerability,
What an important topic that is.
It is so big that you could literally go and read all sorts of books about it.
I recommend Bernie Brown's books.
If you haven't read them,
Check out her TED Talks as well.
So incredibly inspiring.
But the reason we're talking about vulnerability is because this is the gateway,
This is the tool,
This is the way we live with an open heart.
And an open heart is essentially the thing that allows for a joyful life,
For a happy life,
For a creative life,
For a life of impact.
So if you want to have impact in this world,
If you want to do important work and share important work and be an uplifter and be an inspirer of people,
Allowing yourself to be vulnerable is a major key.
Now on this last final wrap up episode of vulnerability,
I want to talk about a very,
Very,
Very important part of vulnerability that we actually have not yet touched on.
And that is the connection between vulnerability and forgiveness.
Without vulnerability,
It is impossible to forgive fully.
And my definition of forgiveness is slightly different than what other people might describe forgiveness to be.
And forgiveness is such a huge topic.
And I have done a very deep,
Deep dive into forgiveness in my own life because of the way I grew up.
If you are new to this podcast,
I had an extremely traumatic childhood that left me with all sorts of nervous ticks and angry and suicidal at the age of 12.
And I can characterize my journey into spirituality as a journey into forgiveness.
So my idea of forgiveness is an act that actually dissolves all wrongdoing.
It takes an event that you consider to be a sin in your life and it dissolves it into a mistake and it dissolves that mistake into a wrongdoing and dissolves that wrongdoing into nothing to the point that that event that was traumatized you and given you PTSD for 20 years comes to be on par with taking a shower or going shopping.
Emotionally,
Its effects are completely released from you.
Forgiveness is an act that we do for ourselves.
It's not for anybody else.
It is the way we free ourselves of our past,
Of things that we are carrying,
We have been carrying.
And it is impossible to achieve that level of forgiveness to the point that this sin dissolves into,
Disintegrates into literally nothingness.
It is impossible to do that without the willingness to be vulnerable.
Because in order to achieve that level of forgiveness,
We have to go deep into the love that we are.
We are love personified.
We are love individualized in these physical forms.
And I don't mean that in a metaphorical way.
I mean that in a very literal way.
We are the energy of love individualized.
Love is not an emotion.
It is a vibrational state of being.
And it is the vibrational state of being of the consciousness that we are.
And while we are in these bodies that are manifested,
We have an ability to tap into and connect with that non-physical and we do that through the energy of love.
It is the highest vibrational state that we can achieve in these physical forms.
And when we are in a complete state of connectedness with our inner being,
That love that we experience,
It is an all-knowing love.
It is an all-encompassing love.
It is an unconditional love,
Meaning there is no conditions attached to it whatsoever.
And it is a sense of complete connectedness.
That is what it means to become one.
That is what it means when I say you and I are the same.
What connects us is the divine within us.
You don't like that word?
Fine.
It's the intelligence within us.
It's the consciousness within us.
It's the universe that flows within both of us.
It is the root system that connects every single being.
We are like the Aspen forest.
We have this illusion of separation.
All of us feel like individuals,
But what connects us,
The root system,
Is all one.
As Rumi says,
We are the ocean in one drop.
What does that mean?
That means each drop of us,
Each one of us,
Is the entire ocean,
Is the entire consciousness individualized.
We are all the energy of love individualized in physical form.
And the only way we tap into that energy of love is by allowing our hearts to open.
We've talked about this in several of our weeks together,
That our heart communicates to us the language of the spirit,
Of the non-physical,
Of the inner being,
Of the universe,
Of consciousness,
And our mind takes that information that we receive through our hearts and it translates it into language that makes sense in this world,
In our physical,
Manifested lives.
So when we live vulnerably,
When we live with open hearts,
What we are actually doing is we are allowing the divine,
The non-physical,
Our beingness to enter our lives,
To express itself in our lives.
That is why we are able to be creative when we live from vulnerable places.
That is why our lives expand exponentially when we are willing to tap into vulnerability.
And that is why we're able to dissolve the pain of this world through forgiveness when we live from this place of vulnerability,
Of open-heartedness.
What makes us vulnerable is not what makes us weak.
What makes us vulnerable is what makes us beautiful.
What makes us vulnerable is what gives us the opportunity to open our hearts.
The reason vulnerability exists is for our benefit,
It's for our experience of feeling with an open heart.
What would happen if you reframed vulnerability this way?
What would happen if instead of defining vulnerability as weakness,
As something shameful,
As fear of being seen,
What if you reframed that feeling of being vulnerable as an opportunity to be seen in all of your grandeur,
As an opportunity to invite the infinite,
The non-physical,
The divine part of yourself into your life?
What if next time you felt vulnerable and afraid,
You leaned into it and you acknowledged the openness of your heart and you allowed the love that is flowing through that open heart to enter the entirety of your being?
What if in the moment of expressing something that makes you vulnerable,
You also tapped into compassion simultaneously?
Compassion for yourself,
Compassion for every person interacting with you.
What if in the moment of vulnerability,
You saw your own wholeness?
You saw the thing that makes you eternal,
That makes you beautiful,
That makes you infinite,
And what ultimately makes you powerful.
It was so much fun for me to dive into this topic with you and thank you so much for being a part of this journey.
And I do have to give a quick shout out to one of my close friends,
Nilu,
Who suggested this topic.
She sent me an interview with Marie Forleo and Bernie Brown.
If you are interested in this topic,
Check out that interview,
Check out Bernie Brown's TED Talks and her books on this really incredible research that she has done on this topic.
And I do hope that this has inspired you to live with a more open heart,
That you are now feeling a little bit maybe compelled to not hide yourself,
Not hide your beauty and actually expose the entirety of who and what you are.
And by the way,
I say what you are and not always just who you are because who you are is the idea that you have about your personality,
This person that you are,
But what you are is so much greater than that.
It is the infinite.
It is the divine.
It is the creator that you are who has come here to experience creation.
And I see you as that whole being and I wish for you to see yourself in this way as well.
And until next week,
When we come back with an entirely new topic,
I hope that you will check out Instagram.
Com and read some of those love notes I share with you on a daily basis.
And if you want to work with me at any capacity,
Reach out to me through peaceonleash.
Com.
That is my website.
And until next week,
When we come back and dive into an entirely new topic,
I wish you a peace filled weekend.
