584. You're Already Becoming Your Next Level - Here's How It Actually Works

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Hello. Welcome to Soul Elevation: Guiding Your Ascension to New Heights. I'm your host Kara Goodwin, and I'm so excited to be here with you today on Friday May 8th 2026. And today I wanna talk about your becoming, because people who are watching podcasts
like Soul Elevation are interested in spiritual development, personal development. They're interested in becoming something more than what they are today. And I've been through this, I am going through this all the time, where I am interested in what the next

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version of myself is. And so one thing I also wanna mention quickly as we're getting started, something's wrong with my chat view, so if you... Thank you to everybody who is here, but I can't see any chat. So feel free to type what you want, but I, I don't know why. It's just I've got a monkey, uh, image, and it says something went wrong. And so I'm sorry that I can't connect with you guys on, in the chat. But, um, anyway, so the first
thing I wanna start with today is a story that came to mind recently. I have a group called the Healing Hearth Group, and we get together regularly and meditate online, and we have a book club, and we have, um, we get together and just chat about our challenges and, and talking about things from a spiritual perspective, talking about life from a spiritual s- perspective. And we had book club last weekend, and I was sharing with them

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something kind of funny that I remembered that was, uh, related to this. And I was in middle school, and it was gym time. We were actually out on the outdoor track. And I was standing with a group. I think there were four of us, four girls. And somebody had a secret. They knew somebody else's secret, and they j- they just said enough to say- That they knew this person's secret. And another person in the group was like, "Tell me the secret.
Tell me the secret. I am the best secret keeper. I won't tell anybody, I promise. I'm the best secret keeper in the whole world." And then as she's saying this, her cousin, who was another of the people in this group, was behind her going, "No, she isn't. Don't tell her." She was... She wasn't saying anything, but she was giving, like, the motions of, like, m- shaking her head, like, as this girl is saying, "I'm the best secret keeper.

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You can trust me. Tell me the secret." The cousin is behind her, who's known her her whole life, who's shaking her head like, "No, she's not. She is not a good secret keeper." And, and that really, the... In, in addition to that just being very funny, I thought, um, it made me think about myself, because I'd never, I'd never considered, am I a good k- secret keeper? It, it... I'd never thought
about myself that way. I didn't necessarily value, um, or place any value on keeping a secret. And so up till that point, I, I was, like, a very, you know, hit or miss probably about whether I would keep a secret or not, because I don't even know if I would have remembered if somebody had entrusted me with something. And, and probably if it came up in conversation, I'm not sure I would have even

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put any value on the fact that it was a secret and other people shouldn't know about it, if it was relevant to the conversation that I was having with somebody else. So through that experience, that was kind of an activation for me or an, an initiation in a way, because I could see in real time what was happening with this person who had... The, the cousin did not trust her in that way. Sh- the cousin had
experience with this person to say, "She cannot keep a secret. She, what she is saying is not true." And there was just something within me that, that was like, I want to be the type of person that people can trust. I, from... And I, it wasn't a conscious thing, where I was like, from this point forward, I shall, you know, prioritize keeping secrets. It wasn't anything dramatic like that, but it was this

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light that switched on of, I could be the type of person where I could say, "You can trust me. I really will not tell anybody your secret." And- And hold that true. And I knew that that... I just understood through this experience that that was something that came with time. And the more that I just kept that as a value and exhibited that,
the more I would, uh, you know, prove myself, and then I wouldn't be caught in that type of situation where somebody would be behind me as I'm saying, "Don't worry, you can trust me," and they're behind me going, "No, you can't. Don't tell her." You know? And, uh, so what I encourage you to do, and this is a, a bigger picture here, so it is

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understanding who it is that you want to be. Whether it is that you want people to be able to trust you, whether it is that you have aspirations for becoming... Let's just say you h- you are interested in energy healing, and you want to become an energy healer, and you don't have any training in this, you don't have any background
in this, but it is an aspiration. So if you lock in on that you wanna become a healer, or whatever it is that you want, if you project yourself out to about six months from now and you think about who is that person... I write about this in my book, Your Authentic Awakening. There's a whole chapter on who, who are you becoming? But

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it is this awareness of who it is that you want to be, and then tracking into that, because it's not a one-off, like, here's one thing that you need to do to get to that. And this is where we can get stuck with, like, um, this is why, you know, New Year's resolutions, for example, can be flashes in the pan, where we've got this big date, and the whole society comes together and is like, "Oh, now
I wanna become something different," that we're t- we're cr- there's a new calendar coming, and in the next year I'm gonna become blah. And how... What is the stereotype of New Year's resolutions? Like, how does that typically trend? It typically trends that people stick with it for a couple of weeks, and then they let the, they let it go. They go back to who they were. And this is because it's

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not just about the calendar flipping and we're suddenly this new person. We become a new person through a series of choices- Through a series of habits, creating new habits and new choices, and it's not sexy, and it's not necessarily easy. But it takes that dedication to really becoming, coming into the new version of yourself. And so what really helps with
this is if you have a clear idea of who it is that you want to become. Because so often we're just moving through life, we're being led through life. We're just following. What did I do yesterday? And you just repeat that. A lot of times we're finding comfort in our habits, in our routines, and we get into this groove. And there... Even if that groove is not

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good for us, our groove means that we're suffering. It's creating suffering. We're b- reactive. We're triggered. We, you know, somebody does something to us and we go back into the old triggering, the old habits, the old reactions. We maybe, you know, we're continuing to abuse alcohol or drugs, or we're making choices where people can't trust us because we're manipulating people or we're lying to people,
and these are choices that we're making over and over. Life continues to happen. We get new days every day. Every morning the sun rises again, but we're making this day just like it was yesterday, and yesterday was just like the day before that, and the day before that was just like the day before that, and we're continuing to cycle through our life and repeat and repeat and repeat. When we do that,

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we continue to stay who we are, or worse, we're just pulled along by the masses, by the collective consciousness, and we're becoming whoever they want us to be. Whoever they is. You know, the bigger picture. We're allowing ourselves to get caught up in the trends, the fads, the news, the whatever, and we're just this vessel of collective
consciousness being kind of puppeted by mass consciousness and by the powers that be, and we're not really living our lives. So let's go back to the example of let's say that you wanna become a healer. Well, the first thing is congratulations on figuring out who it is you wanna become. That's huge. It's huge for us to be intuiting, to

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listening to the signals that are being given by our soul for change, for us to step into something that we are here to do that we are not yet doing. So that's big, to be able to say, "Oh, I feel this change coming, and I wanna pursue this." And so if it's healing, just again, using this as an example, but I know there's somebody listening at some point who
directly this applies to healing. It's fun how that happens. But so how do you become a healer? Well, you become trained. That's part of it. Learning techniques, learning tools, becoming certified in a modality. So I'm trained in Reiki, for example, and I've been through many levels of training, and that was the modality that I used to kind of be able to call

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myself a healer. But that's only a small part of becoming a healer. So it's an important part because there... You know, for example, with Reiki training, there are initiations. There are, uh... Or what do they call it? It's like a where you come into resonance. Maybe it's called an initiation, but it's like a, an, an activation. Maybe that's a better word for it. But, you know, your
training includes that activation, which helps your energy to align with the modality. So it's an important part. But just becoming certified in something doesn't make you good at it. It might help you be a lot better than you would be if you were just winging it and you didn't know intellectually anything about the healing modality that you were using, but being a, a true effective

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healer that people want to come back to and building up a practice is different than just becoming certified, so... Or just learning the tools and techniques. So there is, within every healer, there is the need to clean house. So good healers have prioritized their own
healing. They're not learning a technique and a modality so that they can be, you know, so they can know everything and so that they can, like, do something for somebody else. Really good healers have worked and prioritized on healing themselves, because healing is an energetic

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experience. There is a transmission. And so when there is distortion and you're... And there is, uh... When the energy is is messy with a healer, they're not a very, they're not gonna be a really effective healer. So there's really a lot more to becoming a, a healer than just taking the class, getting the
certification, having the, you know, being able to put it on a website. It is truly about coming into resonance within yourself, and that takes choice. That's where we come back to this day being different than yesterday. It is recognizing the patterns within us, the harmful toxic patterns, and making new choices that

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are in favor of the person that we wanna become. So again, let's say energy healer. Well, if I'm an energy healer, I want my energy cleared out, and I want to be able to control my energy. I want to be the commander of my energy field, because that is going to make me more effective, and it's going to allow me
to help people at a deeper level. And so things need to change within my daily life. In that case, if I drink alcohol, I need to understand what that is doing to my energy field if I want to be a really good healer. Because alcohol, for example, creates disharmony within your field. It opens fissures and ruptures

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within your aura, and it, it, it makes you resonate with lower energies. That's just... I'm not here to shame or... You know, a lot of people drink, and that's what it is. It's not here for guilt or shame, but it's here to recognize that if you want to become a better version of yourself, there are things that are in the way right now. You
need to take command of your life, take command of your energy, be the commander of your life, of your energy field, and get rid of the nonsense. And alcohol consumption, honestly, to be really real, and I know this is not a popular opinion, but it gets in the way of that. If you really wanna be in command of who you are, get rid of the

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alcohol. So this is... and, and that will help you to become a more effective And powerful energy healer. It will help you to become more effective in your life in general. But that was ... I stopped drinking about eight years ago, and that was really the driver behind it, was that I was interested in energy healing, I was interested in meditation,
I wanted my energy to strengthen, I wanted to be able to tap into my intuition more, I wanted to feel my soul more strongly. And alcohol numbs you, and it has a cumulative effect, so it's not just when you're under the influence of alcohol that your energy is under the influence of it. So I quit drinking, not because I had a problem, but in, in, uh,

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in the spirit of being aligned with who I wanted to become. And so along the way of becoming who I am today, I had to make new choices and create new habits, and that was one of them. That was a big one for me, and it really did help me strengthen my energy field. And so it might not be alcohol for you, but there are lots of ways ... You know, having a meditation
practice, that might be something that ... Well, I mean, any good energy healing modality that you get trained in is going to encourage you to learn how to meditate. Um, but if you don't have a meditation practice now, that's another way that a daily practice that you can take on that's gonna help you to get aligned with the higher version of you. And so there are any

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number of things. There can be that you are having a lot of junk food, and you're not really consciously engaged with nourishing your physical body. Even as an energy healer or with other spiritual pursuits, you can't neglect your body. Your body is an important part of your spiritual experience here on Earth. So you want to nourish your body. Give it the
vitamins, the nutrition, the, the supplements, the water, the good, clean water. Those types of physical things are gonna help you with your physical vessel, and your physical vessel is your carrier through ... for the spirit while you're here on Earth. So again, all of these things, they're bigger They're bigger things that can help you to be in the alignment with

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who you are. And then day by day, but even more than that, moment by moment, step by step, and choice by choice, you are becoming who you will be. So if you, in six months, if you have in mind who it is that you want to become, who do you wanna step into, what role, what new version of yourself do you wanna step into? If you're making the same choices every day that you're making today,
then in six months you're gonna be the same as you were today, because you're not, y- you're not doing anything new. You know, it's not gonna happen without you. You ... We're in a free will environment here. You are a critical, you are a critical factor into who you're gonna become. So yes, you have a destiny, you have a soul purpose, you have a reason that your soul came into this body,

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and it is up to you to implement the changes that will bring you to your destiny. It's not just gonna come to you. If you start making choices that, that get you into the flow and the version of you who you are, then you're starting to meet it halfway, and you will attract that into you. But you have to make the choices. You have
to take command. So one thing that could really help with clearing out these habits, clearing out the, um, the, the patterns, the energetic patterns that are keeping us stuck and tied to who we are can be hel- having a healer that helps you with that. And so this makes me think of the, um, spring energy reset that I'm hosting

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with Joanna Draus on, uh, May 16th, Saturday, May 16th. So you can register for that at karagoodwin.com/joanna, and she will help to dissolve those lower energies, lower entities, thoughts, patterns, contracts, um, influences that are keeping us stuck and keeping us held into a pattern and a life that is not in alignment with our highest purpose. And so you don't necessarily
need to work with a healer for that, but healers, really good ones, and Joanna is an excellent, exceptional healer. Really good ones will help you to move forward and clear some things out that can be hard to do on our own. Not impossible, because you are, you are the commander of your destiny if you will step into that. But it really can help to move the needle. So please do

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sign up for that. A private session with her is about $260. We've got this group session that's gonna be very powerful, uh, and it's only $55. So it's a, a wonderful opportunity, and it's a great group of people who've signed up so far all over the world. And so I hope that you will join us for that if it feels appropriate for you. Again, that's karagoodwin.com/joanna. And I thank you so much for being here. Thank you for the work that you are doing to get
into the alignment with your soul. It's so critical, and it's, it's critical beyond it just affecting you. It helps everybody. It helps this whole planet, all of our collective consciousness. So bless you. Thank you so much. Thank you for being here. Thank you for subscribing, liking, sharing, and, and all of that, and I will see you next time. Speaker 2: Thank you so much for joining me for this episode of Soul Elevation. If someone in your life would be