Oct. 6, 2026
642. How to Know You're on the Right Spiritual Path | Signs You're Awakening
Life can certainly feel challenging, overwhelming, or even impossible right now. It can be easy to feel that things are off track.
In this Soul Elevation episode, Kara Goodwin shares reassuring spiritual awakening signs that prove you are making headway on your spiritual journey , even when you can't see it. Explore why this earth experience brings so much adversity, why so many feel stuck in ego, fear and conspiracy darkness or survival mode, and how to recognize the quiet progress of your true consciousness expansion and ascension symptoms.
If you're navigating shadow work, ego death, and the healing journey toward higher consciousness, you'll learn how to trust your spiritual awakening journey, stay anchored in light, and keep moving forward with clarity and confidence.
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00:00 Welcome and Topic
00:47 Zooming Out on Life
02:57 Awakening and Distrust
04:50 Cat Cameo Break
05:37 Health and AI Risks
08:48 Soul Seekers and Truth
09:59 Infiltration and Discernment
14:33 Cult Lesson Story
26:39 Spiritual Leaders Exposed
28:31 Daily Soul Practice
31:26 Closing Blessing
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Um, I've got some proof for you that is so evident, um, that it's ... It, it is self-evident. So we'll get to that. But where we are in this time Sometimes we have to step back and take the 50,000 mile view to even really appreciate where we are and how we personally are doing. Because this is a world that has a lot going on.
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Uh, one thing that comes to mind is, like, indoor plumbing. Being able to just flush a toilet and have waste, your whole, all your household waste just go out of your house. And being able to take a shower, a warm shower, and that's just on tap. You know, and think about what it was like for your, your great-grandparents or your ancestors to even be clean, to be able to cook a meal in their house.
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And maybe the general store was far away from where they lived, and it was a whole ordeal. You maybe you would go once every few weeks, and then would they even have what you needed? So we have a lot of ways that life is easy in some respects. And yet, those who are engaging with content like what you're watching right now, a lot of them understand that humanity is in peril in a lot of ways.
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In fact, they're working against our highest interance- inter- interests. So we even have to pivot our beliefs, our understanding of how reality works And it can make you feel disempowered because it's like, wait, I thought that I could trust the government or the medical system or industry. I thought that these, these big structures of society were working for me, and now I understand, oh, they're actually working against me.
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I don't normally let my cat in here, but my cat, I told her she couldn't disturb me while I was doing this, but she is not listening. I just got back from a trip, uh, a few days in Maine, and so my, my cat is very, very friendly because she's appreciating me in a way that she doesn't when I'm around all the time.
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So she's just tucked in behind me, and she's purring very loudly. So if any of that's getting picked up on the mic, I hope you're enjoying it. I know she made a little appearance in the video there, but she's super cute, so I hope you enjoyed it. Anyway, um, but w- so it can feel really challenging, especially as you start to wake, to awaken to some of those things in terms of the structure of reality and the rising of consciousness and how this is affecting humanity because we have some big changes that we're all going through, and that trickles down into the individual level.
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People who are very healthy, energy healers, for example And, uh, hello, the year of the fire hurse, hire, fire horse 2026. So great to see you here. Thanks for being here. Um, so I'm seeing a lot of this where they're having these health crises, for example, and it's shocking, and it's kind of the last people that I would expect to be going through that.
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But, you know, they're really handing themselves over to what AI is telling them to do. They're handing their trust over. And what I'm seeing, like, every time I see this person posting videos, there's a lot of darkness that they're contending with. They're kind of becoming untethered from really who they are.
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Now, if you are watching something like this, you are drawn to spiritual content. You are drawn to connecting with your soul, to strengthening the expression of your soul into your everyday life. How do I know that? How do I know that if you're watching that, that that's what's happening within you?
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Now, a lot of the examples that I've given at the beginning of this live stream were about ways that this reality is trying to separate people from their souls. There absolutely is a satanic agenda at play, and it has infiltrated everything. And it's not to cause paranoia or fear, but it is to acknowledge the reality that we are living in.
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Even in the spiritual, quote-unquote spiritual and non-religious community, it's infiltrated as well there. There are plenty of things that I see where I'm like, whoa, there is, um, a lot of fear being driven there. There's a lot of ego going on there. There's a lot of, um, siphoning that's happening, and it's within the spiritual community.
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All kinds of ways that, yes, these, all these different aspects, it's kind of like the bigger and bigger and bigger the corporation, the religion, the, um, the, whatever the industry is, the bigger it is, the more likely it is that it's not what it seems, and that there is kind of a surface level offering and the deeper you go into it, the darker it is.
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That's right. We have this connection exactly within ourselves, and that is what true awakening is. It is being able to come into yourself, to call in your own source, to call in source, pure source consciousness, to come in to this body, to express through you, and to connect with source. And we are all also helping each other.
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Earth is chaotic, and we are in chaotic times. We are in spiritual battleground where it is light and dark, that it, you know, there is a lot of that happening and a lot of vying for your attention. The dark wants you. The dark wants you disconnected. The dark wants you to need a savior and so that it can swoop in there and offer you distraction.
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And it's, it's just tricky. It requires discernment. You're gonna have times where you are m- you maybe take a perceived misstep because you've trusted... This has happened to me. I've trusted something. I thought that it was good for me. Maybe I was getting some warning signals along the way, but I was, you know, trying to feel things out, and ultimately found out that it wasn't what it said it was gonna be So for example, in this particular case, I'm talking about a cult.
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But it takes navigating, and it takes participating in life, trying things out. And sometimes we're gonna make mistakes, and sometimes we need to readjust. Sometimes we need to be humble and say, "Oh, okay, I'm gonna learn from that." Nothing is lost when we gain wisdom, and sometimes the easiest way we gain wisdom is when we have, quote-unquote, failed.
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Maybe they really don't have the capability, or they don't have the, um ... You know, they don't ... They just, that spark hasn't been ignited within them yet for a n- for numerous reasons. Maybe they came here to have a very physical surface level experience. That's what their soul wanted, and they're completely asleep, and it's meant to be that way.
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And you don't have to be doing it perfectly. You won't do it perfectly. There is no perfect But you are taking those steps and you are bringing more spirit into your body. So I see, um, Susan's asking, "How did you realize they weren't your truth?" This is a great question. So this is, um... This was a few years ago, and I got involved in this group, and it's, it's kind of a funny story because they had contacted me to come and be a guest on the podcast.
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And as soon as I saw their picture- I was like, "No." They, this is a cult. I mean, immediately. It was so obvious. It was so obvious. Just look, you could look, you could look from a million miles away and be like, "Oh, that's a cult." And so I was like, "Absolutely not." But there was something that it- they were so classic cult that I was like, how do they have...
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How can people not see this? It's so obvious. And I click on this link, and I'm listening to this interview, and these people knew what they were talking about. They were talking about spiritual concepts that I already knew that were, um, you know, it's things that it weren't, like, low-hanging fruit. It wasn't, like, foundational.
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Like, they were, and they were, like, head over heels in love with these people. And the whole time I was kinda back and forth where it was like, this certainly feels very culty, and everybody is really, like, drinking the Kool-Aid here and, like, overly enthusiastic and, um, but they also had been there for longer than I had.
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Is this still all right? Is this still good for me? Is this what I think it is?" And I was... So I was paying attention, kind of trying to look in all directions, but also trying to surrender. And, um, like I, like I said originally, ultimately it was that other people who had been there for a lot longer started blowing the whistle.
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I didn't really believe in that, and it's been through, over the years of experience and exposure where I'm like, "Whoa, that really is a thing," and that's not that unusual. Uh, I mean, it... I don't know. I don't know. Maybe that's not fair to say, but I think that, you know, they were casting spells, and they were siphoning a ton of money from people and energy.
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So you're kind of tr- You are very much trusting. You're handing over your trust to say like, "This is unfamiliar to me. I'm not exactly sure what these words are, what these sounds are, what, what we're doing with this ritual. Um, but I trust these people know more than me, and this is their wheelhouse, and I think they have good intentions, and I like what I've seen so far."
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Um, I do write about this in Your Authentic Awakening, so if that's something that you wanna know more about, I talk about warning signs and s- it's, how, how it's a slippery slope. Because a lot of times these things start out where they seem good. You feel good, and you think you've found something really special.
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Oh, because it, the, the darkness has infiltrated even the spiritual community, even when you... And that's really heartbreaking because it's such, it's like the ultimate vulnerable and precious and sacred part of ourselves, and we really want to feel safe in that, and it's such a huge betrayal when it hasn't been handled with care and when it has been taken advantage of for somebody else's gain.
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And then we've got all of this... He's one of the few people who has been exposed actually publicly in the Epstein files. And, you know, he was somebody that y- you may not know anything about spirituality, but you've probably heard of Deepak Chopra. And then he's one of the people involved in one of the darkest things on this planet.
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And I, I think that it's no... I honestly, I think that it's no mistake that he was, he's one of the handful of people whose names are out there in the public. I think that that's very deliberate. I think that's another way. It's another, like, way that the darkness is trying to separate people from their souls, because if you have absolutely very, very little connection with spirituality and your soul, but you know in passing who Deepak Chopra is, and then you know he's connected with Epstein, and that he's done some terrible things to abuse people, and that he obviously was not who he was saying he was, you know, he's not a mouthpiece of God, then you're gonna throw the baby out with the bathwater, and you're gonna think it's all, oh, well, if it's D- if it's even Deepak Chopra, then none of it's real.
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It seems like a lot. I know it seems like a lot. But if you can get back to the purity, the simplicity of you being an expression of Pure Source Consciousness, you having a soul and letting that soul rise and awaken within you- To be able to connect to that every day just through being still and being silent just for a little bit and just, just trying to, just trying to connect with it, just intending that you connect with it.
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Just letting yourself be there in the silence with no expectation of perfection, no expectation that you're doing it perfectly connecting with your soul, and no expectation that when you connect with your soul that you're gonna find perfection there. You may find things that make you uncomfortable. You may have things that are, that show themselves that, that make you feel unworthy, and that is part of the human process, too.
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Do it again the next day a little bit. You will notice a compound, uh, like compound interest. A little bit every day, and you will start to create an avalanche of just your soul singing through your body, through your expression, through your life. You will keep strengthening that connection of pure source consciousness and you will be unstoppable.
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Um, I've got some proof for you that is so evident, um, that it's ... It, it is self-evident. So we'll get to that. But where we are in this time Sometimes we have to step back and take the 50,000 mile view to even really appreciate where we are and how we personally are doing. Because this is a world that has a lot going on.
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Uh, one thing that comes to mind is, like, indoor plumbing. Being able to just flush a toilet and have waste, your whole, all your household waste just go out of your house. And being able to take a shower, a warm shower, and that's just on tap. You know, and think about what it was like for your, your great-grandparents or your ancestors to even be clean, to be able to cook a meal in their house.
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And maybe the general store was far away from where they lived, and it was a whole ordeal. You maybe you would go once every few weeks, and then would they even have what you needed? So we have a lot of ways that life is easy in some respects. And yet, those who are engaging with content like what you're watching right now, a lot of them understand that humanity is in peril in a lot of ways.
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In fact, they're working against our highest interance- inter- interests. So we even have to pivot our beliefs, our understanding of how reality works And it can make you feel disempowered because it's like, wait, I thought that I could trust the government or the medical system or industry. I thought that these, these big structures of society were working for me, and now I understand, oh, they're actually working against me.
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I don't normally let my cat in here, but my cat, I told her she couldn't disturb me while I was doing this, but she is not listening. I just got back from a trip, uh, a few days in Maine, and so my, my cat is very, very friendly because she's appreciating me in a way that she doesn't when I'm around all the time.
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So she's just tucked in behind me, and she's purring very loudly. So if any of that's getting picked up on the mic, I hope you're enjoying it. I know she made a little appearance in the video there, but she's super cute, so I hope you enjoyed it. Anyway, um, but w- so it can feel really challenging, especially as you start to wake, to awaken to some of those things in terms of the structure of reality and the rising of consciousness and how this is affecting humanity because we have some big changes that we're all going through, and that trickles down into the individual level.
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People who are very healthy, energy healers, for example And, uh, hello, the year of the fire hurse, hire, fire horse 2026. So great to see you here. Thanks for being here. Um, so I'm seeing a lot of this where they're having these health crises, for example, and it's shocking, and it's kind of the last people that I would expect to be going through that.
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But, you know, they're really handing themselves over to what AI is telling them to do. They're handing their trust over. And what I'm seeing, like, every time I see this person posting videos, there's a lot of darkness that they're contending with. They're kind of becoming untethered from really who they are.
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Now, if you are watching something like this, you are drawn to spiritual content. You are drawn to connecting with your soul, to strengthening the expression of your soul into your everyday life. How do I know that? How do I know that if you're watching that, that that's what's happening within you?
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Now, a lot of the examples that I've given at the beginning of this live stream were about ways that this reality is trying to separate people from their souls. There absolutely is a satanic agenda at play, and it has infiltrated everything. And it's not to cause paranoia or fear, but it is to acknowledge the reality that we are living in.
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Even in the spiritual, quote-unquote spiritual and non-religious community, it's infiltrated as well there. There are plenty of things that I see where I'm like, whoa, there is, um, a lot of fear being driven there. There's a lot of ego going on there. There's a lot of, um, siphoning that's happening, and it's within the spiritual community.
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All kinds of ways that, yes, these, all these different aspects, it's kind of like the bigger and bigger and bigger the corporation, the religion, the, um, the, whatever the industry is, the bigger it is, the more likely it is that it's not what it seems, and that there is kind of a surface level offering and the deeper you go into it, the darker it is.
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That's right. We have this connection exactly within ourselves, and that is what true awakening is. It is being able to come into yourself, to call in your own source, to call in source, pure source consciousness, to come in to this body, to express through you, and to connect with source. And we are all also helping each other.
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Earth is chaotic, and we are in chaotic times. We are in spiritual battleground where it is light and dark, that it, you know, there is a lot of that happening and a lot of vying for your attention. The dark wants you. The dark wants you disconnected. The dark wants you to need a savior and so that it can swoop in there and offer you distraction.
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And it's, it's just tricky. It requires discernment. You're gonna have times where you are m- you maybe take a perceived misstep because you've trusted... This has happened to me. I've trusted something. I thought that it was good for me. Maybe I was getting some warning signals along the way, but I was, you know, trying to feel things out, and ultimately found out that it wasn't what it said it was gonna be So for example, in this particular case, I'm talking about a cult.
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But it takes navigating, and it takes participating in life, trying things out. And sometimes we're gonna make mistakes, and sometimes we need to readjust. Sometimes we need to be humble and say, "Oh, okay, I'm gonna learn from that." Nothing is lost when we gain wisdom, and sometimes the easiest way we gain wisdom is when we have, quote-unquote, failed.
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Maybe they really don't have the capability, or they don't have the, um ... You know, they don't ... They just, that spark hasn't been ignited within them yet for a n- for numerous reasons. Maybe they came here to have a very physical surface level experience. That's what their soul wanted, and they're completely asleep, and it's meant to be that way.
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And you don't have to be doing it perfectly. You won't do it perfectly. There is no perfect But you are taking those steps and you are bringing more spirit into your body. So I see, um, Susan's asking, "How did you realize they weren't your truth?" This is a great question. So this is, um... This was a few years ago, and I got involved in this group, and it's, it's kind of a funny story because they had contacted me to come and be a guest on the podcast.
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And as soon as I saw their picture- I was like, "No." They, this is a cult. I mean, immediately. It was so obvious. It was so obvious. Just look, you could look, you could look from a million miles away and be like, "Oh, that's a cult." And so I was like, "Absolutely not." But there was something that it- they were so classic cult that I was like, how do they have...
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How can people not see this? It's so obvious. And I click on this link, and I'm listening to this interview, and these people knew what they were talking about. They were talking about spiritual concepts that I already knew that were, um, you know, it's things that it weren't, like, low-hanging fruit. It wasn't, like, foundational.
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Like, they were, and they were, like, head over heels in love with these people. And the whole time I was kinda back and forth where it was like, this certainly feels very culty, and everybody is really, like, drinking the Kool-Aid here and, like, overly enthusiastic and, um, but they also had been there for longer than I had.
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Is this still all right? Is this still good for me? Is this what I think it is?" And I was... So I was paying attention, kind of trying to look in all directions, but also trying to surrender. And, um, like I, like I said originally, ultimately it was that other people who had been there for a lot longer started blowing the whistle.
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I didn't really believe in that, and it's been through, over the years of experience and exposure where I'm like, "Whoa, that really is a thing," and that's not that unusual. Uh, I mean, it... I don't know. I don't know. Maybe that's not fair to say, but I think that, you know, they were casting spells, and they were siphoning a ton of money from people and energy.
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So you're kind of tr- You are very much trusting. You're handing over your trust to say like, "This is unfamiliar to me. I'm not exactly sure what these words are, what these sounds are, what, what we're doing with this ritual. Um, but I trust these people know more than me, and this is their wheelhouse, and I think they have good intentions, and I like what I've seen so far."
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Um, I do write about this in Your Authentic Awakening, so if that's something that you wanna know more about, I talk about warning signs and s- it's, how, how it's a slippery slope. Because a lot of times these things start out where they seem good. You feel good, and you think you've found something really special.
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Oh, because it, the, the darkness has infiltrated even the spiritual community, even when you... And that's really heartbreaking because it's such, it's like the ultimate vulnerable and precious and sacred part of ourselves, and we really want to feel safe in that, and it's such a huge betrayal when it hasn't been handled with care and when it has been taken advantage of for somebody else's gain.
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And then we've got all of this... He's one of the few people who has been exposed actually publicly in the Epstein files. And, you know, he was somebody that y- you may not know anything about spirituality, but you've probably heard of Deepak Chopra. And then he's one of the people involved in one of the darkest things on this planet.
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And I, I think that it's no... I honestly, I think that it's no mistake that he was, he's one of the handful of people whose names are out there in the public. I think that that's very deliberate. I think that's another way. It's another, like, way that the darkness is trying to separate people from their souls, because if you have absolutely very, very little connection with spirituality and your soul, but you know in passing who Deepak Chopra is, and then you know he's connected with Epstein, and that he's done some terrible things to abuse people, and that he obviously was not who he was saying he was, you know, he's not a mouthpiece of God, then you're gonna throw the baby out with the bathwater, and you're gonna think it's all, oh, well, if it's D- if it's even Deepak Chopra, then none of it's real.
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It seems like a lot. I know it seems like a lot. But if you can get back to the purity, the simplicity of you being an expression of Pure Source Consciousness, you having a soul and letting that soul rise and awaken within you- To be able to connect to that every day just through being still and being silent just for a little bit and just, just trying to, just trying to connect with it, just intending that you connect with it.
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Just letting yourself be there in the silence with no expectation of perfection, no expectation that you're doing it perfectly connecting with your soul, and no expectation that when you connect with your soul that you're gonna find perfection there. You may find things that make you uncomfortable. You may have things that are, that show themselves that, that make you feel unworthy, and that is part of the human process, too.
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Do it again the next day a little bit. You will notice a compound, uh, like compound interest. A little bit every day, and you will start to create an avalanche of just your soul singing through your body, through your expression, through your life. You will keep strengthening that connection of pure source consciousness and you will be unstoppable.
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