July 12, 2023

A Call For Love With Linda Orsini

A Call For Love With Linda Orsini

SELF-LOVE, SELF COMPASSION, INNER-PEACE leading to JOY! We could all use some more empowerment and healing. In Episode 35, “A CALL FOR LOVE” on the Shining Brightly Podcast Show my guest is Linda Orsini, lifelong teacher, founder of the Global Wellness Education and popular podcast A Call for Love shares how to overcome anxiety, soul fatigue and self-limiting beliefs. Come learn the 3 kinds of COMPASSION that you can apply immediately to your life toward a mindset transformation toward better self-care, peace and joy.

Mentioned Resources –

A Call for Love - Podcast https://a-call-for-love.captivate.fm/listen     

Global Wellness Education

https://www.instagram.com/globalwellnesseducation/

https://www.facebook.com/Global-Wellness-Education-104421351959935

https://www.linkedin.com/in/linda-orsini-07102b208/

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFN0-hQxN875X1TwZ8sJYBQ

About the guest –  

Linda Orsini is the founder of Global Wellness Education and the host of the A Call for Love podcast. Transitioning from a retired school-teacher with over 30+ years of experience, Linda is a passionate advocate for personal growth and transformation. Her own profound healing journey through anxiety, soul fatigue, fear, and self-limiting beliefs has fueled an unwavering commitment to empowering others on their transformative journeys. With her expertise in body-mind-spirit practices, Linda will skillfully guide you toward a life flowing with love, self-compassion, inner peace, and joy, helping you release the blocks and pains that are preventing you from living your best life.


About the Host:

Howard Brown is a best-selling author, award-winning international speaker, Silicon Valley entrepreneur, interfaith peacemaker, and a two-time stage IV cancer survivor. He is also a sought-after speaker and consultant for corporate businesses, nonprofits, congregations, and community groups. Howard has co-founded two social networks that were the first to connect religious communities around the world. He is a nationally known patient advocate and “cancer whisperer” to many families. Howard, his wife Lisa, and daughter Emily currently reside in Michigan, and his happy place is on the basketball court.

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Transcript
Howard Brown:

Hello is this Howard Brown Welcome to the

Howard Brown:

Shining Brightly Show. So glad to have you. Listen. It's really

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important we hear these terms self care equals self love. What

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does that all mean? Well, I've got a great guest who's going to

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talk us through it today and tell us why this is so important

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in building yourself confidence in you, Linda Orsini Welcome.

Howard Brown:

How are you?

Linda Orsini:

I am fantastic. Thank you, Howard.

Howard Brown:

WOW. So, this is I always like to learn from all of

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our coaches and experts. And I want to tell you a little bit

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about Linda. So Linda Orsini is the founder of the global

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wellness education, and the host of a call for love power

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podcast. So she's a retired school teacher. 30 years

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experience. What grade?

Linda Orsini:

All grades all grades in elementary?

Howard Brown:

All right, well, we gotta love our teachers. They

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are role models, and they are heroes. Oh my goodness. 30 years

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of teaching. Linda is passionate advocate for personal growth and

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transformation. Her own profound healing journey through anxiety,

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Soul fatigue, fear, self limiting beliefs has fueled an

Howard Brown:

unwavering commitment to empowering others on their

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transformative journeys, where their expertise and body mind

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and spirit practices. lindo will skillfully guide you toward a

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life flowing with love, self care, self compassion, inner

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peace and joy helping you release the blocks and pains

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that are preventing you from living your best life. Oh, wow,

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we need Linda. Linda, tell us fill in the blanks. What did I

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miss. And also include something that we may not know about you

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something that you want to share?

Linda Orsini:

Well, I'm so happy to be here. And I love your

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podcast. So what an honour it is to speak with you and your

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listeners. I am the youngest of 11 children. So you may not know

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that, yeah, I have 10 older brothers and sisters. And so I'm

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the youngest and maybe feisty. Like to add feisty there and

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really independent. And I get things done. So I am self

Linda Orsini:

motivated. And I just do not wait for things to happen. I

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kind of had the mindset to create them myself. So that's

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just a different piece of information I like to share.

Howard Brown:

You had a whole team of people. Oh, love it. Oh,

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my goodness, you're the baby. So Oh, my God, you had so many

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people taking care of your that's amazing. Did you get

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special treatment as being the youngest of 11.

Linda Orsini:

You know, my mom went to the bedroom at the top

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of the stairs. And every time somebody came in the house,

Linda Orsini:

she'd say, I made an apple pie just for you. And then the next

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person would come in the house and she would say, I made an

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apple pie just for you. And we would all hear this, but we

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would all be delighted. And then one day I was in a bookstore and

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the title said love each child the most. And I think she really

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live that both my parents did. There was lots of love to go

Linda Orsini:

around.

Howard Brown:

God bless her 11 children. That's amazing. And

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it's great sage advice from your mom. So I thank you for sharing

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that. Well, let's dig in and we're going to chop it up a

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little bit. So school teacher for 30 years. And you you

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actually in your bio, I read that you have an anxiety you had

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soul fatigue, Soul fatigue, what is that you have to explain self

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limiting beliefs. Tell us what happened to you. What's your

Howard Brown:

story?

Linda Orsini:

Well, I was a school teacher and I loved it.

Linda Orsini:

Like I seriously loved it. But I would wake up every morning

Linda Orsini:

almost in tears, didn't know how I was going to make it through

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each day. I was completely exhausted. And this is where

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it's just not exhausted in your body, but your energy. So I am a

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yoga meditation guide, sound healer and Reiki master so I do

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know what it feels like to be in your spirit so depleted. And I

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would wake up each morning almost in tears not knowing how

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I was going to manage to the day and I decided to find my own

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path to healing my energy body and my mind because I was very

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anxious and anxiety as we know is worrying about the future. So

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I decided to really empower myself by first di diving into

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somatic healing practices and when I say somatic which I'm

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sure your your listeners will be interested to hear. We carry

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trauma, pain, worry suffering in our body in our physical body.

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And in order to relieve that is very helpful and actually

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detrimental to relieve it to our energy body through nature

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through restorative yoga, through breath, work, all these

Linda Orsini:

different modalities, sorry, different modalities that really

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guide you to self healing. Wow,

Howard Brown:

I resonate with it, but I am not a yoga guy or a

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meditation guy, I get it all out on the basketball court through

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extreme exercise, hiking, biking, basketball, but there's

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a lot of my audience here that needs to be able to process

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that, especially folks that have been dealt with cancer or

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caregivers. And I, I heard something that resonated with me

Howard Brown:

with you is that you are, you're waking up every day with fear

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before you went to work. And that can lead to bad things, and

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burnout. And I hear that in the nursing profession, we're

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hearing that in the teaching profession now. And that's not a

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good way to wake up every day. I mean, you want to wake up every

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day and try to be as positive as you can and be blessed. Be

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grateful, seize the day, but you had to overcome that. And now

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you help others to do so. So that's really, really important.

Howard Brown:

Now, I listened to your podcast to where mutual fans were very

Howard Brown:

aligned, about motivate, educate, and inspire our

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listeners. And I want you to tell us how your podcast came

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about. And it's called the call for love. And what inspired you

Howard Brown:

to choose that name? And what does that really mean to you?

Linda Orsini:

Well, it's so interesting, because I knew I

Linda Orsini:

wanted to start a podcast and I didn't know what what I was

Linda Orsini:

going to name it. And it came to me one day, because if you think

Linda Orsini:

of your day, Howard, and if the listeners think of their day,

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how many different emotions have you felt up to this point of

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listening? You could have had joy, exhaustion, fear, stress,

Linda Orsini:

anxiety, anger, you could have had resentment, you could have

Linda Orsini:

had a whole range of emotions. And in one day, you can

Linda Orsini:

experience so many emotions. And instead of calling them in some

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spiritual texts, because I am a student of A Course in Miracles,

Linda Orsini:

they say there's two emotions, there's fear. And then there's

Linda Orsini:

love. And the first episode of my podcast series, a talk about

Linda Orsini:

the difference between the two, and and how on these rocks, I

Linda Orsini:

was painting, fear on one side and love on the other. And fear

Linda Orsini:

means stress, anxiety, resentment, anger, sadness, all

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those negative emotions. And that's the What fear kind of

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represents. And I realised I don't want to think of my life

Linda Orsini:

as love and fear, because fear is so negative, and I'm in it a

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lot. And so, through A Course in Miracles, and the tax, there is

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another term that you can call fear. And that's a call for

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love. So you can be in two places, you can be either in a

Linda Orsini:

place of love, or there's a call for love. And I think it's

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really empowering for us to notice, where we are standing.

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Are we standing in the light? Are we starting in the shadow in

Linda Orsini:

the darkness? And noticing it, just noticing it? And that's the

Linda Orsini:

first peace? Are you in a place of love? Or is there a call for

Linda Orsini:

love. And then when you notice that and you give yourself some

Linda Orsini:

time and space. And when you offer yourself Self Compassion,

Linda Orsini:

because to notice it requires some courage to say, Oh, I'm

Linda Orsini:

feeling really angry and to hold space for that, then you can

Linda Orsini:

invite love in. And that's a call for love.

Howard Brown:

Well, we're shining brightly as you know,

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with the sun coming off those that are listening on video, I'm

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staring at a sign behind you and I want to read it because you

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just said about the two places have a call for love or it's

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amazing. So behind you, I'm reading and for those listening

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and watching you'll be able to see it but for those listening,

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it says every day, laugh, celebrate love, dream, hope,

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learn and brace wish, share, enjoy, give live and smile. And

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it's it's I'm just staring at it going. That's amazing and you're

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trying to live in that embodiment or you're trying to

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get there and that's it's cool. So I I really appreciate you

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having that sign behind you. It's a great reminder to where

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we can get to or if we're already there to just really be

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thankful and grateful that we were there in some parts of it.

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or day or life and things like that. So on your path to self

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love, you give me some stories of how this, how this

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transformed you, I'm sure people look at some tangible examples.

Howard Brown:

So share some stories with us.

Linda Orsini:

Okay, I will, I am so happy you mentioned this

Linda Orsini:

because I had guided a retreat for some woman, just the other

Linda Orsini:

week. And on my way home, I had an experience that was not very

Linda Orsini:

pleasant, you know, I have a super great marriage, like

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divorced and remarried. And I hadn't been with my husband for

Linda Orsini:

almost three weeks, because I had been travelling, yada, yada,

Linda Orsini:

yada. And I was listening to all the things he was doing without

Linda Orsini:

me and I have some jealousy, I had some jealousy. And so this

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is noticing. And then I got a little cranky. And, you know,

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all these feelings were coming up that were not very pleasant.

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So because of my practice of a love, or a call for love, I

Linda Orsini:

noticed I was not in a place of love. And I could say things

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that were just unnecessary and, and nasty. And mean, and I

Linda Orsini:

didn't want to this is marriage, you know, we're all if you're in

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a marriage or a partnership, you know, these things come up. And

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so I was thinking to myself, Okay, I noticed that I'm not in

Linda Orsini:

a place of love. I'm not in a good space. So what am I going

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to do, I'm going to step back, and I can say anything, I'm

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going to feel all my emotions, hold space for all my emotions,

Linda Orsini:

and then offer self compassion. And there's three components to

Linda Orsini:

self compassion. There's the first one is self kindness, oh,

Linda Orsini:

I'm feeling these feelings, and they're not comfortable.

Linda Orsini:

What am I going to do? So I offer myself

Linda Orsini:

some soothing, that maybe placed my hand on my heart, or maybe

Linda Orsini:

you know, I rub my forehead, or I roll my shoulders and release

Linda Orsini:

it from my body. And then I say, you know, this is not unusual,

Linda Orsini:

that, you know, I've been away for about three weeks. And you

Linda Orsini:

know, we've led our separate lives for a couple of weeks, and

Linda Orsini:

these emotions could come up. This is part of the human

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experience. Just noticing that and appreciating that. And then

Linda Orsini:

I gave myself some space, I breathed into it, I went for a

Linda Orsini:

little walk, I put my feet in the in the grass and the ground,

Linda Orsini:

it gave me some space I, I took some deep breaths, and

Linda Orsini:

pranayama, which is breathing techniques in yoga. And then I

Linda Orsini:

let it go. And then I can and then when I finally got home, I

Linda Orsini:

could greet him with love and kindness, because I was very

Linda Orsini:

happy and excited to see him. But it was a journey. It was a

Linda Orsini:

journey to notice that we get triggers in our life, that are

Linda Orsini:

painful or uncomfortable. We notice them, we create space for

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them. We offer ourselves self compassion. And then we switch

Linda Orsini:

we flip the switch from those unhealthy emotions that hold us

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back from living our true light from shining brightly into a

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place of love. And that's what I want to be. And that's what I

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advocate for is that it's through our mindset, and through

Linda Orsini:

practices that we can flip into a place of love. And then when

Linda Orsini:

you are self compassionate and loving. What does that do? It

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ripples outward. It makes the whole world a brighter place.

Linda Orsini:

And everything all love comes from self love. All love comes

Linda Orsini:

from ourselves. So that is an example of how I practice how I

Linda Orsini:

walk the talk.

Howard Brown:

I appreciate that. So it's fear of missing out

Howard Brown:

because you he was maybe golfing or doing something with his

Howard Brown:

friends and I get it. And then so you said there were three

Howard Brown:

things in self compassion I got one was self kindness. The

Howard Brown:

second one was with creating space.

Linda Orsini:

So self kindness, yes. common humanity, which is

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really knowing that this is part of the human experience. Okay,

Linda Orsini:

and number three, and and they're in no particular order,

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and mindfulness. That means holding space noticing. So

Linda Orsini:

you're going to notice maybe offer yourself some kindness and

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then know that this is not unusual and they could come that

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you can have some more of one than the other and they can come

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in different order, but always usually It really starts with

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the mindfulness piece is just noticing. And I like to say

Linda Orsini:

where you're standing, are you standing in love? Or is there a

Linda Orsini:

call for love? So noticing first the sensations of uncomfortable.

Howard Brown:

I appreciate that. And I, the reason I wanted to

Howard Brown:

get that down was because it's easy to hear it, but I missed

Howard Brown:

it. Because I was really listening to your examples, and

Howard Brown:

then putting it into practice. So I want to actually then now,

Howard Brown:

you're an advocate for self compassion, and you have this

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wisdom, when someone is going through struggles, okay, I live

Howard Brown:

in the cancer world, and the patients and their caregivers

Howard Brown:

and their families are struggling. But you know,

Howard Brown:

whether it's addiction or loss of job or divorce, or

Howard Brown:

relationships, we all get knocked down. And it's you have

Howard Brown:

to get back up again. And I always say that we lift

Howard Brown:

ourselves up. And that's what you do. So when someone comes to

Howard Brown:

you, what advice do you offer them? When they're in the

Howard Brown:

struggle? Well, how do you get started? And where do you take

Howard Brown:

them through?

Linda Orsini:

Well, that's an excellent question. And I have

Linda Orsini:

coaching clients, and although I have not particularly dealt with

Linda Orsini:

cancer patients, per se, I have dealt with people who are really

Linda Orsini:

struggling with death of a partner or a friend or breakups,

Linda Orsini:

life traumatic events. And what I say is, what are you feeling?

Linda Orsini:

What are you feeling? What, what emotions are going through? And

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no doubtedly fear will come up? Where do you feel it in your

Linda Orsini:

body? Where is this sorrow? Where is this fear? Where is

Linda Orsini:

this anger? Where are you feeling it in your body, your

Linda Orsini:

emotional body, and they can sometimes place their hands on

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their heart, you know, they can feel it in their digestion. And

Linda Orsini:

you know, when your body when you're holding these thoughts in

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your mind, it becomes dis ease. And ease in the mind is not

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helping the body. So knowing what you're feeling, noticing

Linda Orsini:

where it is in your body. And then the instinct is no one

Linda Orsini:

likes uncomfortable. We always are trying to push away, what is

Linda Orsini:

not pleasant. And the key here is to hold space for what is

Linda Orsini:

unpleasant, in order to move through it. Because if we push

Linda Orsini:

it aside, we're ignoring it. But when we hold space for it, it

Linda Orsini:

can move through us. And we can leave it behind. And it doesn't

Linda Orsini:

become a burden and it doesn't become a weight.

Howard Brown:

I appreciate that. One of the things that where you

Howard Brown:

and I have just really, really well aligned is that so I carry

Howard Brown:

my stress on my shoulders, and then you carry it obviously in

Howard Brown:

your head, what I do is, at times, go help somebody else, it

Howard Brown:

actually takes my mind off of that and going being a mentor,

Howard Brown:

or listening ear or a hug for somebody else. And that actually

Howard Brown:

helps a little bit in rejuvenating me, and then I can

Howard Brown:

focus back on me. Because I say, you know, you got to lift

Howard Brown:

yourself up first. And but I find that helping others, the

Howard Brown:

endorphins, just kind of then allow me to come back to me all

Howard Brown:

that. But the world is stressful. And again, it's how

Howard Brown:

you actually take it on is what I'm hearing from you. But

Howard Brown:

focusing back and giving people the right tools, whether that's

Howard Brown:

breathing, I call it finding your happy place, the stress

Howard Brown:

free zone. So we're talking about the same thing. You use

Howard Brown:

the mindfulness techniques and things like that as well, which

Howard Brown:

are certainly important. And when people see these things

Howard Brown:

working for them, I think you'll agree that the practice of

Howard Brown:

gratitude, self gratitude, and gratitude really helps carry you

Howard Brown:

forward. And so can you speak to that a little bit?

Linda Orsini:

Yes, well, I would like to go back a little bit and

Linda Orsini:

say that, first of all, we need to know what our body needs to

Linda Orsini:

release that cortisol that that springs up and you said you play

Linda Orsini:

basketball. You know, sometimes that's what you need, you know,

Linda Orsini:

you need to release that that energy and then you can come

Linda Orsini:

into a place of more calm, but when you practice self

Linda Orsini:

compassion, it automatically creates a more empathetic

Linda Orsini:

person. And that's what we want because when we become self

Linda Orsini:

compassionate and self compassion is not selfish. It's

Linda Orsini:

tapping into what we need. Only then can we bought being more

Linda Orsini:

empathetic to others. And that's what I say a call for love. What

Linda Orsini:

are we living if we're just loving ourselves, and we're not

Linda Orsini:

spreading that out to others, so that you first reach out to

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others, it's an act of love. An act of love grows, right? It's

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not limited, is full abundance. So you're spreading that love

Linda Orsini:

and energetically, that's a higher vibration. And when you

Linda Orsini:

are sharing that light, and that love with others, it can't, it

Linda Orsini:

can't not stop. At just them, it permeates everyone. And that's a

Linda Orsini:

sense of gratitude. We knew, fill, fill and live your life

Linda Orsini:

from a place of love, without resentment without fear all

Linda Orsini:

those places, your vibration changes, your health changes,

Linda Orsini:

your skin changes, I swear your whole physical body changes, you

Linda Orsini:

have this glow and this light around you shining brightly. How

Linda Orsini:

can you shine brightly? If you're living in a place of

Linda Orsini:

fear, anxiety, stress? No, is. But I say that it's it's not

Linda Orsini:

automatic. For a lot of people, a lot of people need some

Linda Orsini:

guidance to work through it. Because we stick we stick to

Linda Orsini:

those negative emotions. And that's where meditation is so so

Linda Orsini:

important, because it teaches us that we are not going to die

Linda Orsini:

from an unhealthy emotion, that it's like the wave of the ocean

Linda Orsini:

is going to come to us and guess what is going to roll away?

Howard Brown:

So yeah, that meditation is one of the tools

Howard Brown:

and practices that that helps. I'm assuming you. Are there

Howard Brown:

others, you speak of a couple others on your podcast, I

Howard Brown:

noticed.

Linda Orsini:

Yeah. So well, I in my podcasts I am including

Linda Orsini:

meditations and I am on Insight Timer. Now. I'm an advocate for

Linda Orsini:

meditation, because of the benefits are really mind

Linda Orsini:

boggling. It's 1000s upon, probably since humankind has

Linda Orsini:

come on this earth, meditation has been a practice. Meditation

Linda Orsini:

is paramount to living healthy in our mind and body, and to be

Linda Orsini:

best stewards of this earth. So meditation, I do believe that,

Linda Orsini:

you know, energy can't be created or destroyed. It's not

Linda Orsini:

even my belief. It's a fact, right? It's a scientific fact

Linda Orsini:

that energy cannot be created or destroyed. So your energy, how

Linda Orsini:

are you living in it? How are you moving through it, and it

Linda Orsini:

can get stuck in our body. And then once again, that's where it

Linda Orsini:

dis ease can come in. And so as a Reiki Master, and transfer,

Linda Orsini:

formative life coach and I am trained in hypnotherapy, all

Linda Orsini:

these modalities, I think I've studied almost everything there

Linda Orsini:

is it's a strength, but it's a weakness. Because I am more of a

Linda Orsini:

student than a teacher, I love learning. The thing, the reason

Linda Orsini:

why I've learned all these modalities is because

Linda Orsini:

something's going to resonate with one person. And when I have

Linda Orsini:

my clients, I have a whole toolbox that I can pull from

Linda Orsini:

that resonates with them. Especially if there's certain

Linda Orsini:

personalities, you know, some people are not going to want to

Linda Orsini:

sit still through a meditation, but I can guide them through a

Linda Orsini:

very gentle movement practice, which helps them get closer to

Linda Orsini:

that somatic healing.

Howard Brown:

Well, you spoke of, you know, fear and anxiety

Howard Brown:

and stress and I in my book, I refer to that as darkness. And

Howard Brown:

that's where people are trying to get out of, I just read a

Howard Brown:

fact that coming out of the pandemic, and COVID, where we

Howard Brown:

were very much restricted on what we could and cannot do. The

Howard Brown:

number one thing coming out now is the emotion of loneliness.

Howard Brown:

It's really interesting in a world, you know, people have

Howard Brown:

really missed getting out and being amongst people, the

Howard Brown:

embrace of a hug and things like that. And how can how can get

Howard Brown:

into the place of love, help that help you. Because

Howard Brown:

loneliness is something that people are dealing with now. And

Howard Brown:

you need to be able to look inward and be able to then share

Howard Brown:

yourself once you're, you know, ready to ready to, you know, on

Howard Brown:

a solid foundation. So did you know that about loneliness is

Howard Brown:

one of the big emotional malaise coming out of the pandemic?

Howard Brown:

Well,

Linda Orsini:

I would say loneliness could be all the

Linda Orsini:

time, but it was just more emphasised in COVID. You know,

Linda Orsini:

you know, in the jail, what did they do? The worst torture is

Linda Orsini:

putting you in solitary confinement, right? Yeah. So

Linda Orsini:

being alone is is often terrifying. And it's funny that

Linda Orsini:

you should mention this because I just came off of a five day

Linda Orsini:

silent retreat, and being alone with oneself is no walk in the

Linda Orsini:

park. It's not a picnic. And I, once again, if we're feeling

Linda Orsini:

lonely, notice the feeling off for years noticing is

Linda Orsini:

mindfulness than offering yourself loving kindness. And

Linda Orsini:

then knowing that it's not unusual to feel lonely, it's

Linda Orsini:

part of being this human experience. And then shining

Linda Orsini:

brightly taking that love and taking it outward. My father

Linda Orsini:

always used to say, Go serve. My parents were big, volunteer

Linda Orsini:

people, my brothers and sisters were really advocates for living

Linda Orsini:

and loving and moving outside of ourselves. So if you're lonely,

Linda Orsini:

give what you want. You want more love, give love. You want

Linda Orsini:

more time, give time, you want more attention, give attention,

Linda Orsini:

and then it will come back to you like a boomerang.

Howard Brown:

It's great advice. While this is this, my show is

Howard Brown:

only a teaser, because people got to go watch your show and

Howard Brown:

get in touch with you. So this is the moment we are going to

Howard Brown:

shine. We have shined all show. But now the shining brightly the

Howard Brown:

spotlight is on you, Linda, I'd love for you to tell people how

Howard Brown:

they can get in touch with you. And then give us some final

Howard Brown:

thoughts and then kick it back over me for the show wrap.

Linda Orsini:

Well, I would love to offer your listeners journal.

Linda Orsini:

It's a seven day guide to self love, which I will keep

Linda Orsini:

available for your listeners. And of course, I'm on all the

Linda Orsini:

platforms. A call for love is my my podcast name, and also my

Linda Orsini:

social media. But my Business is Global wellness education,

Linda Orsini:

because I'm a speaker, a coach, mine mindfulness guide,

Linda Orsini:

meditation guide so many modalities. So I decided as an

Linda Orsini:

educator, and global, I advocate for wellness. So my my business

Linda Orsini:

name is Global Wellness Education.

Howard Brown:

And well thank you. And also I want to add that

Howard Brown:

you're also a teacher and a student, as well, because you

Howard Brown:

mentioned so so we'll definitely include all that information in

Howard Brown:

the show notes and on all the socials and definitely the link

Howard Brown:

to the PDF that journal will will definitely include that.

Howard Brown:

Give me some final thoughts and we're going to wrap the show.

Linda Orsini:

My final thoughts is that we are so lucky to be

Linda Orsini:

alive, to be breathing. And when we find the love deep love

Linda Orsini:

within us, it is our duty as humans part of this spiritual

Linda Orsini:

experience to give it outwards. So shine the light to shine the

Linda Orsini:

love. And if you're not in a place of love, then there's a

Linda Orsini:

call for love. But you can always decide

Howard Brown:

Wow, powerful Thank you. Well, it's so nice to

Howard Brown:

have you Linda and sharing your your teaching your wisdom and

Howard Brown:

your passion with with my audience. Thanks for being here

Howard Brown:

today. So this is Howard Brown, you've been on the shining

Howard Brown:

brightly show. You can reach me at shining brightly.com I've got

Howard Brown:

the book my speaking also the podcast. There's also things

Howard Brown:

about my cancer journey, lots of video and also other podcasts.

Howard Brown:

So come seek me out there. There's also discussion guides

Howard Brown:

that are free downloadables on survivorship. Mentorship is

Howard Brown:

leadership and interfaith meeting the other so lots of

Howard Brown:

good resources there and get interactive with me. Again,

Howard Brown:

Linda Orsini thank you a call for love. Really a pleasure to

Howard Brown:

have you on the show today. Thank you.