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True North with Abby & Ryan - Abby & Ryan Use Their Voices - Part 2

Abby & Ryan Use Their Voices - Part 2

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01/29/21 • 65 min

True North with Abby & Ryan

If you're using your voice, but not grounded in the essence of your true self, then you're not speaking your truth; you're merely speaking your mind. #RTA
You are not responsible for what people do with your words. But YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR WORDS.
FISH TANK ANALOGY:
You are the water, and your words are the fish.

  • If the water is mucky, the fish will get sick. If you want to maintain their health, you have to tend to each fish, individually, and persistently.
  • If you focus on giving them good clean water, you don't have to micromanage the health of each individual fish.
  • If you are being intentional (because it doesn't happen on accident) about operating in Love and Light, then you don't need to mind every single thing you say, because your words are already wrapped in compassion, empathy, and love.
  • If you're not at your best, and you're not consciously seeking the highest good of all involved, that might be a good time to monitor the words you use and make sure they don't create (or recreate past) trauma to others.

"We don't see things as they are; we see them as we are." -Anaïs Nin
When NOT to factor in the possibility that your words will trigger your audience:

  • When you are in love and light, seeking the highest good of everyone involved
  • When you have a wealth of relational equity with them
  • When you tend to value the words of others over your own

When TO factor in the possibility that your words will trigger your audience:

  • When you are in ego, seeking to defend yourself or judge others
  • When you lack relational equity with them
  • When you tend to value your words over those of others

The only time it's okay to forego the task of crafting your words around how they might affect the other person is when the whole of your person is already enveloped in love and empathy for them. And that's only because you've already eliminated the possibility that anything you say could be hurtful. In that case, the only problems they have with your words are the problems they themselves create.
YOU CAN'T SPEAK YOUR TRUTH IF YOU DON'T KNOW YOUR TRUTH. #RTA
And your truth is your self. So you have to start by knowing yourself.
Figuring out who you are starts with figuring out who you're not:
"Maybe the journey isn't so much about BECOMING anything. Maybe it's about UNBECOMING everything that isn't really you, so you can be who you were meant to be in the first place." -Gregg Braden
Your True North is not WHAT you're supposed to DO in this life. It's WHO you're supposed to BE.
GRATITUDES:

  • Abby is grateful for dairy-free milk! Also for the fact that life has been challenging lately.
  • Ryan is grateful for the people he's surrounded himself by, through whom the essence of his dad can be kept alive in his life.

TIME CODES:
2:08 - Ryan owns his muckiness
9:43 - Taking responsibility for our words
21:32 - "We don't see things as they are; we see them as we are."
32:57 - When to give a shit about the effects of your words
42:39 - Know thyself
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If you're using your voice, but not grounded in the essence of your true self, then you're not speaking your truth; you're merely speaking your mind. #RTA
You are not responsible for what people do with your words. But YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR WORDS.
FISH TANK ANALOGY:
You are the water, and your words are the fish.

  • If the water is mucky, the fish will get sick. If you want to maintain their health, you have to tend to each fish, individually, and persistently.
  • If you focus on giving them good clean water, you don't have to micromanage the health of each individual fish.
  • If you are being intentional (because it doesn't happen on accident) about operating in Love and Light, then you don't need to mind every single thing you say, because your words are already wrapped in compassion, empathy, and love.
  • If you're not at your best, and you're not consciously seeking the highest good of all involved, that might be a good time to monitor the words you use and make sure they don't create (or recreate past) trauma to others.

"We don't see things as they are; we see them as we are." -Anaïs Nin
When NOT to factor in the possibility that your words will trigger your audience:

  • When you are in love and light, seeking the highest good of everyone involved
  • When you have a wealth of relational equity with them
  • When you tend to value the words of others over your own

When TO factor in the possibility that your words will trigger your audience:

  • When you are in ego, seeking to defend yourself or judge others
  • When you lack relational equity with them
  • When you tend to value your words over those of others

The only time it's okay to forego the task of crafting your words around how they might affect the other person is when the whole of your person is already enveloped in love and empathy for them. And that's only because you've already eliminated the possibility that anything you say could be hurtful. In that case, the only problems they have with your words are the problems they themselves create.
YOU CAN'T SPEAK YOUR TRUTH IF YOU DON'T KNOW YOUR TRUTH. #RTA
And your truth is your self. So you have to start by knowing yourself.
Figuring out who you are starts with figuring out who you're not:
"Maybe the journey isn't so much about BECOMING anything. Maybe it's about UNBECOMING everything that isn't really you, so you can be who you were meant to be in the first place." -Gregg Braden
Your True North is not WHAT you're supposed to DO in this life. It's WHO you're supposed to BE.
GRATITUDES:

  • Abby is grateful for dairy-free milk! Also for the fact that life has been challenging lately.
  • Ryan is grateful for the people he's surrounded himself by, through whom the essence of his dad can be kept alive in his life.

TIME CODES:
2:08 - Ryan owns his muckiness
9:43 - Taking responsibility for our words
21:32 - "We don't see things as they are; we see them as we are."
32:57 - When to give a shit about the effects of your words
42:39 - Know thyself
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undefined - Abby & Ryan Use Their Voices - Part 1

Abby & Ryan Use Their Voices - Part 1

"Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder." - Rumi
Start by knowing where you are:

  • Notice when you want to say something but don't. Why didn't you?
  • Notice when you speak up - standing up for yourself or others, naming your desires, asserting your opinions. Why did you?
  • Notice when you fill silence with unnecessary words. Why did you?

Ready to start using your voice confidently? Start where it's safest and slowly expand:

  • Unapologetically use your voice with your most trusted lifemate. Quantity over quality. Expand your circle of honesty as you gain confidence and experience in speaking your truth.
  • Create a space in your dwelling that reflects your authentic self. As you're ready, expand that space at a pace that feels comfortable, until your entire abode reflects your inner landscape.

"But what it my truth will trigger my audience??"

  • Are you about to create new trauma for them, or mirror a past trauma?
  • Operating in Love & Light = steering clear of creating new trauma.
  • Respectfully not giving a shit = realizing you're not in control of whether or not they allow your words to trigger past traumas, and therefore not spending energy trying to keep that from happening.

From a chakra perspective: we have a throat chakra, but we don't have ear chakras. The throat chakra governs speaking your truth, but the heart chakra governs giving and receiving. When you listen with your heart instead of your head, you create space in which others are more free to use their voices.
GRATITUDES:

  • Ryan's grateful for the Unplug Men's Retreat he just went on with MenLiving.
  • Abby's grateful her sister's father.

RESOURCES:

TIME CODES:
3:08 - Intro to the topic: Using Your Voice
7:18 - Raise Your Words (Rumi)
8:51 - Love and Light as intentions in expressing your authentic self
10:54 - Quantity over quality (Uelsmann)
15:07 - Conscious silence as a way of keeping a boundary
21:17 - How to start using your voice - Part 1
24:44 - Why do we fear using our voices?
29:55 - Triggering - new and old trauma
42:09 - Coaching as a form of using your voice
46:58 - Listening with your heart (chakras)
50:04 - How to start using your voice - Part 2
59:36 - Meeting people where they are (Spiral Dynamics)
1:03:33 - The Jade of Mr. He
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Next Episode

undefined - Abby & Ryan Use Their Voices - Part 3

Abby & Ryan Use Their Voices - Part 3

We close some loops and get all* the words out that we've spent the past two episodes wrestling with for various reasons. Not sure if I need to say this, but you'll need to listen to parts 1 and 2 for any of this to make sense.
GRATITUDES:

  • Ryan is grateful for his #bidet .
  • Abby is grateful for her brother-in-law.

TIME CODES:
1:54 - Abby & Ryan share their experiences of last episode
17:47 - Ryan, on monitoring his words more closely
30:57 - Abby's biggest growth opportunity this series has shown her: trust yourself
34:25 - Ryan's biggest growth opportunity this series has shown him: have courage
40:15 - Rupture & Repair
44:10 - You get to choose the words you plant in other people's heads
52:46 - Get curious about people
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