How does personal growth connect to the greater evolution of humanity? In this fascinating episode, I welcome David Knox to explore the link between personal habits, somatic experiences, and collective evolution.
From Darwinian evolution to cosmological perspectives, David offers insights into how our individual evolution can contribute to the larger consciousness of humanity.
Join us as we uncover the power of intention, the impact of our emotional state on outcomes, and how physical release can lead to emotional freedom.
In this episode, David Knox and I discuss:
- The connection between habits, intuition, and somatic experiences in personal and collective evolution.
- Evolution from both a scientific (Darwinian) and cosmological perspective.
- David’s journey of realizing the importance of aligning personal goals with universal evolution.
- The interconnectedness of consciousness and the impact of individual growth on collective human development.
- The holistic view of what it means to be human and how it affects our life experiences.
- The idea that consciousness and intention are integral to the universe and personal evolution.
- The concept of a holographic fractal universe, where each part reflects the whole.
- The importance of individual evolution for the betterment of humanity and the planet.
- How the emotional and mental state behind our actions influences our outcomes.
- Challenges of becoming aware of misalignments in one's life and the courage required to make changes.
And so much more!
David Knox is the creator and host of The Evolutionary Podcast and LiveStream YouTube channel. For decades David studied and experimented with the relationship between spiritual practices and life circumstances. In 2019, looking at the state of the world, David decided it was time to walk away from his corporate career and start talking to people who care about things that matter.
Now David teaches others how to use their holographic, fractal relationship with our consciously evolutionary universe to create happiness, meaning, fulfillment and affluence in their lives, and in doing so, help to evolve the human species.
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A: Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Free Your Soma podcast. Today, we are exploring personal evolution and collective evolution and how does our evolution relate to our habits, our intuition, and to our somatic experience. I'll be talking with David Knox from The Evolutionary Life, and we're going to explore some really exciting out there, but grounded topics today. So stay tuned.
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A: Hi, David. How are you today?
D: Hey, Aimee. It's so good to be here. How are you?
A: Yeah. Just cruising by along. It's a Friday, and we're recording here on a Friday, so it's kind of like the end of the journey of the week, and I'm feeling that Friday energy. And really excited to have this conversation with you. We've got some exciting things to talk about, right?
D: Yeah.
A: And particularly, this idea of evolution from the standpoint that you talk about it, right? Your podcast is called The Evolutionary, right? With David Knox, and you really are taking some of these concepts to, I would say, like, you know, a quantum level, but then also talking about it from an everyday, internal, you know, somatic experience.
How does this actually relate to how we live our lives and how we experience our reality in our bodies? And those are things that I've heard you talking about, and I'm like, this is somatic. You know, sometimes people aren't using that word, but they are talking about something that is this holistic picture of what it means to be a human.
D: Absolutely. That's one of the reasons that I had you on my show was because it really, there's a lot of very interesting overlap. You're very much working where the river meets the road, so to speak, in terms of the human experience.
A: Yeah, excellent. Well, maybe we can start off with kind of a general question to orient our listeners who might not, you know, fully, you know, maybe they've heard about evolution from like a Darwinian perspective and all this stuff, but maybe they're not familiar with the way that you talk about it. So let's start with that. How do you define evolution, right? And how is it relevant to our daily lives?
D: Yeah, so that's a beautiful question and a wonderful place to start. It's also a big question because evolution is, you know, when I speak about evolution on the show, I'm speaking about evolution in the most general sense.
I am speaking about Darwinian or not Darwinian evolution, depending on where you, you know, what your mindset is there, or your belief systems. I'm also talking about cosmological evolution. I'm talking about evolution of systems, everything, right?
Because we live in an evolutionary system. And so what happened was I was living my life and by the way, I started reading like Deepak Chopra and Wayne Dyer back in the early 90s and kind of got into that manifestation culture that is pretty well entrenched now. It's quite a big industry. It's quite a big mindset and movement.
But a couple of things were happening to me that kind of came to a head about five years ago. And the first thing was that there was some inconsistency in my manifestation practice. I was doing the same thing for one thing and it would come easily and quickly and I would be doing the same thing for something else. And it's just not showing up.
And I think that everyone that tries this modality has that experience, right? I think it's very common. And I couldn't like grasp why that was happening. And at the same time, I was having this massive cognitive dissonance that I know everyone is going to relate to. And that is, I'm working on my life. And by the way, it was good. You know, my life has been pretty stellar since about 42 years old and I'm in my 50s now.
And I'm stellar, but there's something missing. And one of the things that was really bothering me was that what is the context for my life? The context for my life is the greater environment. It's the world. And in my opinion at the time, the world was like a fire in a madhouse.
You know, I mean, you turn on the news for five seconds, it's a recipe for mental health issues. And so I'm supposed to create my perfect life in this context that is so imperfect. And well, that kind of didn't make sense. It felt like making tea while the house is on fire, you know, so what can I do? Shouldn't I be doing something? And what is that thing that I should be doing?
And so there came a moment where I realized that there was kind of one thing that pulled that all together. And I was kind of taken with this idea that has gained some popularity in science now. And that is that we live in a holographic fractal universe.
The whole graphic meaning that the information of the whole system is available at every point in the system, meaning the information, another way to say that would be like the information in the universal mind, the knowing of the universal mind is available everywhere, including to you and me.
A: Interconnectedness.
D: Absolutely. And the other piece, the fractal piece says that the information or the equation or the pattern that makes the whole system. Also makes everything in the system. In other words, our nature is its nature. And the one thing that I noticed that all of the scientific disciplines seemed to agree upon is that we live in a whole, that we live in evolutionary system, that the universe is evolutionary.
Ask any scientist at scientific discipline and they will say, yeah, everything seems to be evolving. And so it occurred to me that if that's its nature and it's our nature, then, and by the way, there's intelligence in the system, there's intention in the system, there's consciousness in the system. Right. I don't think that probably most of your listeners will not be subscribing to the idea that consciousness is an epiphenomenon of biological life.
A: Right. And that it's all random or something.
D: Right. And that there's right that everything happened on accident. That's statistically that's a joke. I mean, there's so many people, very smart people, statisticians, mathematicians, other scientists are blowing holes in that theory constantly. Because it's almost a flat out impossibility that this is a mistake. Right.
And so there's consciousness and intention and, you know, Schrodinger, one of the fathers of quantum physics said something along the lines of there's only one consciousness in the universe to refer to consciousness and the plural is erroneous. And which means that we are having this experience of being separate, but we're not.
Our consciousness is embedded in the consciousness of the universe and probably lots of layers in between. Doesn't matter. I don't know. Right. But just to understand that there's that that intentionality in the universe. And so if we live in an evolutionary system, then the mind in which we are embedded will be driving us to evolve.
And I woke up and I went, okay, I'm focused in my manifestation practice. And my manifestation practice is about circumstances. It's about bringing things into my life and circumstances and relationships and, you know, outward trappings, right. And the universal mind in which I am embedded is focused on my becoming.
It's focused on my evolution. And so we're playing two different games. And as soon as I realized that, oh, my God. So if I shift my focus over to the same thing, that the organizing intelligent principle in which I am embedded, that in which I was created and sustained in return to that thing. If I if we're focused on the same thing, life gets a whole lot easier.
And so that missing piece in my manifestation practice kind of like opened up and I went, holy smokes. It's just that simple. Just shift it over. And instead of asking to get stuff and asking to create circumstances, I started asking to become the person who naturally attracts and sustains those circumstances. Because once the becoming happens, then the rest, that's the effortless part.
The effort is the becoming. Right. Yeah. And so I'm the person out of 7.8, whatever, billion people.
Right. What can I do to help? You know, should I go on protest or sign petitions or recycle or what, you know, what is the thing that you should do? All those things are great, whatever. But there's a very fundamental thing that I can do. And it's the same thing I just described.
Yes. And that is evolve. Because the thing that is going to save the human race, the thing that is going to save the planet is the evolution of the human species.
It's the upleveling of the consciousness of the human species. Nothing else is going to save us. Right. We have to evolve into a species that is beyond violence, into a species that is in harmony with ourselves and with each other and with our environment. Yeah.
And I actually, you know, this is, I think this is a consistent thought in the great spiritual traditions is that I actually only have one thing that I can do there. And that's evolve me. Yes. That's my game. You can't make me evolve. Try as you will. I can't make you evolve. I can't make anybody evolve.
You know, there's no evangelism or knocking on doors or whatever that is going to get other people to evolve. That's a personal game. And so one of the, one of the kind of mantras of the show that I'm not particularly proud of is focus on your own shit.
A: Yeah. No, I love that. Right. That's all we have to, that's the only lever we have to pull there. But the other, and that sounds like bad news because there's only one of me. But the actual news there is that my evolution or your evolution has a tremendous impact on the field of humanity. Right. This idea of a morphic field that there's an organizing principle to the molecules that make up us this physical meat suit. Right.
What is that? Well, that whatever that is, there's one for humanity as well. And so the morphic field of humanity and the morphic field of you are, there was inseparable. And so you have a direct line into pump that field with as much light and consciousness and awareness and love and compassion as you can. It can take all of it.
A: Absolutely.
D: And that's the good news is that we don't have to have 51% or 5% or 3% or whatever. We just have to have enough love and light and energy in the system and awareness consciousness in the system. And you know, the definition of consciousness is a whole nother conversation because it gets used a lot.
A: Right, right.
D: To up level the entirety of humanity because we all share the same field.
A: Yeah.
D: So those two things come together at once. And also, and I went, oh, okay. That's starting to make sense. And then I started using it and it started to actually make changes in my life.
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A: Wow. Yeah, I mean, I'm picking up everything you're putting down. This is fantastic. I feel you on the, you know, when we are focused on getting things and having things versus who we are being and how we are doing things, right? There's a how to how we do everything, you know, and you can be doing the, you know, doing some action, you can be doing something.
And if you're doing it with, you know, force and struggle and resentment and frustration and you're doing it out of anger or you're doing it out of guilt or to punish yourself. It's a very different experience and your body, your nervous system is going to have a very different reaction to doing that thing than if you were to do it in a way that is this is helping me grow as a human being, extending yourself, compassion, extending yourself, understanding, right?
Doing whatever it is that you're doing and doing it in a way that is thoughtful and therapeutic, right? So the how we do stuff is incredibly important and that speaks to that intention, right? And where you're putting your focus and who you are being rather than what you're doing, right?
And all the actions that we could take, right? It's the how is incredibly important. The other thing you're speaking to you here that I think is wonderful is, you know, you're talking about things energetically, but another way to kind of talk about this because it's all part of the same field.
Is our nervous system and whenever you're interacting with a person, you're interacting with their nervous system and this is an invisible thing you can't see or feel, but you can in a way because you're seeing the expression on their face, you're hearing the tone of their voice, their body language.
There's a lot of information that your nervous system is picking up on and that your nervous systems are interacting with each other. And if somebody is really, you know, dysregulated and stressed out, you feel that stress, you know? And you, if you have those spaces in your auric field that are, you know, vulnerable to stress, right?
There's something going on with you. You can get triggered, right? That's what we call it, right? We call it getting like, oh, and now I'm affected by this person's stress. And now I'm walking around carrying that stress and some of its mind, but some of its theirs. And now my nervous system took that on. And now I'm not sleeping well, right?
And now we're in this cycle of how is this affecting my daily life? And what I just described is 99% unconscious. We don't realize that it's happening when it's happening. It's usually only in retrospect, you know, often for me, like when I started working with people like myself who could actually help me kind of like you said, deal with my shit, right? It's accumulating.
You know, I'm not only accumulating the things that I've experienced, but I'm accumulating, you know, the transpersonal karma, the transpersonal trauma of other people. And so this what I'm describing is kind of what you described in the inverse, which is that as we heal ourselves and as we learn to regulate our own nervous system, right?
Then when I come in contact with a person who's dysregulated, what if instead of being triggered and thrown off by that, I'm calmer person than they are, and they get to experience nervous system to nervous system, what it's like to be calm, what it's like to be at peace, right? And that and they have a moment where they feel soothed.
And they it maybe just be a little blip of a moment, because of the tone of my voice because of how I'm responding rather than reacting, you know, and they get just this little blip of a moment where they're like, Oh, maybe everything's okay, maybe I'm okay, you know, maybe there's hope. And that's that way that it's impacting everybody you come in contact with when you when you focus on your own shit, right? Totally.
D: And part of what you're speaking to is this idea of curating our own consumption, because everything that you come into contact with everything that comes through any of your five senses, as well as your additional senses and you're talking about your nervous system is so we're going to talk about it. We're going to talk about intuition later on, right?
Curating your own consumption is so important because you're affected by that you're affected by the media that you intake and always the games that you play, the people that you come into contact with the person sitting next to you at the bar that you're not even talking to.
I mean, it's all being aware of that and taking control of that, especially when you start this evolutionary journey, because, you know, how strong are you, how stable are you in your light and love that you're emitting, you know, how grounded, how grounded can you be.
And, you know, as you become what you're describing as you become more evolved and more secure in in who you are and in your ground of being, then you can actually go out and start emanating and overriding some of those and actually impacting other people. And some people aren't going to be impacted and you need to move away from them.
A: Yeah, they're not ready for it. They're they're not that's not an alignment for them yet. Yeah.
D: And recognizing that early and making the adjustment is absolutely vital.
A: Yeah, yeah, I like to call it your radiance. Yeah, that's actually what I called my my six month program to like get the somatic awareness is it's you start radiating and you said emanating that's another really great word for it.
But it's a process to get to that point where you're like you said grounded and stable enough in your own person in your own energy that you're not just, you know, hairline triggered by every person that you're coming in contact with who's got some shit that is unresolved and it, you know, chat, you know grabs your unresolved shit and they start like an energetic battle right?
It takes up its time it takes time in a process and we're never perfect at it it's it's a it's a practice right so I love that and we're going to talk a little bit now about like habits and in a way like our habits. And habits are what we practice, you know, your habits will become your future. If you are unaware of what you're doing on a daily basis in day in and day out with your time your energy your resources. Right.
That is going to have a consequence over time. And so, kind of like you said like when we can sort of what's the word you use for your consumption what was the word curate it curate curate your consumption when you can start to look at what am I spending my time doing what am I spending my resources and my energy doing. And how am you know what am I getting back from that are these things that are really serving me and my body and my life or these things that are draining me.
Right. So I would love to talk about habit formation. I know you have a lot of experience with this and let's what what would you say if someone's got a habit that they recognize is not serving them. What are some ways that they could start shifting towards a way towards towards things that would serve them.
D: Yeah, well the first thing to do is kind of understand the role of habits in all of this because a lot of people they have this idea that there's habits that they need to break. There's this feeling that that's probably not good for me or whatever.
But it's just kind of half hazard right. Understanding the role of habits. First of all, habits get a bad rap.
You know people talk about breaking habits all of the time and they feel like a lot of their habits are bad. Because 95% of what we do from from what the pundits say 95% of our day is lived on autopilot. So 95% of what we think, feel, say and do is says initiated subconsciously and maybe we're somewhat aware while we're doing it. But you know that's most of our life that's staggering.
Now you can look at that and go habits are bad. So I'm going to become a master of mindfulness. And by the way, my partner kitty teaches mindfulness. And so it's it's kind of constantly in my life. You know my daily thing, but you don't have to go all that to that length, right. You can actually recognize that habits are a good thing if you use them properly.
In fact, they're a super powerful tool to get moving on your evolutionary track. And so before you start the how am I going to change these habits. The first thing to do is to ask, Well, what am I going to use to decide what habits I'm going to go after and what I'm going to replace them with.
And what am I going to replace them with super important because you don't just stop doing something, you replace it right. Anyone who's tried to get rid of any sort of addiction, you know, cigarettes, coffee, you name it. It knows this that you don't just stop, you have to replace it that makes it so much easier.
But what are you going to go after because if 95% of our day is habit. And this is not only what we do. It's all the words that we speak the emotions that we feel and the thoughts that we think those are those are real things right those are the most important stuff.
Well, so the first thing that we have to do in the evolutionary model is we got to figure out what is our vision for the life that we would like to create what is our vision for the world that we want to live in the context for that life. Right. Can we spend some time on a regular basis cultivating that vision is incredibly important to do. And once we have that and it's not a one time thing it's something that we kind of spend time with on a weekly basis is what is my vision for my life that I want to live in context of the world I would like to live in.
Then we have a North Star. And of course in the evolutionary model we also change that from this is the circumstances of the life that I would like to live into. What is the person that would live that life who is that person and turn me into that person that's my intended becoming. Right.
And so now I have a North Star and I'm always navigating toward that no matter what. And then that gives me something to hold up my habits against. And I look at my habits and go is this serving the creation of that life is this serving my intended becoming.
And if it's not you know you can it's a candidate maybe we'll go after that one. But again it's a huge smorgasbord of habits to go after so the most important thing is to choose one. Not all of them just one one habit because habits are effortless replacing them is not. And so you don't want to overload yourself and go I'm going to totally retool my life this week.
Throw that out choose one make it a good one you know not too big it has to be one that you feel like you can handle and get into that one and take a couple of weeks decide what would be a better thing to do. And maybe it's a lot of people go after their morning routine first because morning routine is you know there's a lot of written about it people talk about it all the time all of the self guru you know self help pundits and you know success gurus and stuff they're always talking about morning routine.
Very important sets the tone for the day cool maybe take one of your morning activities or rituals or maybe lack thereof and replace that and replace it with something that you believe is going to be supportive of the person you want to become of the life that you'd like to lead and then do that for you know three or four weeks sometimes it only takes a couple of weeks but as soon as it become habits the beauty kicks in when it becomes a habit no more effort zero effort.
It's a habit and now you can do another one see where this is not a sprint this is this is the long haul this is a way of life and if you do this you know for five or six months and you can just replace one at a time patiently replace one at a time be patient with yourself it's always important to be nurturing and patient with yourself and go ahead and do it and replace one at a time at six months from now.
If you choose well you know five or six habits your life is going to be very very different and after you get you know two or three habits in it's important to start looking at I think it's important to start going after habitual ways of speaking and habitual ways of thinking because these are so deeply powerful and they're things that people often don't go after they're like I'm going to quit drinking caffeine.
Or I'm going to run every day or whatever that's that might sound hard but it's a lot easier than changing the way you think the thoughts that are rubbed into your head given a certain situation right someone cuts you off in traffic what's what's your habitual way of thinking about that and that was a tough one for me for years right is it compassion or is it I want to kill them.
Yeah, or somewhere on that on that spectrum somewhere. So, going after habitual ways of thinking and speaking are so important because you know as Mike Dually has taught us for the last 30 years thoughts become things they're real real things they actually emanate out into the field in which were contained.
And they have repercussions that come back to us very important to be thinking about positive things looking for the things to be grateful for in your environment. Yeah. And then, you know, words are magic, you know, words cast spells cast good ones, you know, find some things that you're saying that that don't line up with they don't align to that North Star vision for your intended becoming and pull that out.
Yeah, have a switch thought have a switch phrase that you throw back in there and say it until it becomes habit and then after it becomes habit and then it starts reprogramming you subconsciously because you're saying it. Absolutely.
A: Yes. I, you know, I work a lot with like habit reformation just, you know, on a muscular level with people because it's all in it's all interconnected as we've kind of said before. And, you know, our habitual ways of thinking every thought that we have we don't realize it if it comes with a micro contraction of our whole body, our whole body is reacting to our thoughts and feelings. And then our environment, you know, things that happen in our environment are reinforcing or because our brain is having those is called confirmation bias where we're looking for evidence around us that this is true.
And so we look around us for evidence that are, you know, that our belief systems are true and are accurate. And so then when we come in contact with certain things in the world, our brain is automatically looking for, you know, for that bias and operating from that.
And that also affects our physical body, you know, and so that's how we end up in those stuck kind of patterns those loop patterns, you know, and for anybody who's lived with chronic pain, which was me, you know, that can kind of feel like, oh, I'm just in this cycle of like, I start feeling a little bit more better and then something happens and now I'm hurting again or now I'm struggling again and then something happens.
And so when you are talking about this idea of, you know, shifting a habit, you know, I think about it somatically in terms of it's going to be a, you know, ideally to get to the root of these things, it has to be something that we're working with from all levels and meaning with our physical body as well. You know, so that's where things like people are often, you know, trying to shift habits around like you said coffee or things that affect their physical body and their nervous system.
It might be food habits, which I know was like a thing that we were going to talk about a little bit about shifting your food habits. And these approaches, I would say are kind of considered more bottom up, you know, rather than like tackling the mindset, you know, and reprogramming our thoughts. That's more kind of like a bottom down or like, you know, you know, let's change the thought and then everything will follow. Well, sometimes if we change our physiology, you know, we notice that those those thoughts that were gripping us don't have the same grip.
Right. When my body is calm and relaxed and my nervous system is more regulated. When I have a disruptive negative thought, right, it doesn't have the same impact on me as when I'm a little ball of stress and my body is tight and I'm, you know, not getting the same impact on me as the nutrition that I need and all of these things that affect my physical body.
You know, so I'd say like part of what you're describing with, you know, shifting habits is how well have you developed a baseline to operate from that actually makes habit shifting, not only possible, but easy, you know, easier than it is when we're all, you know, out of dysreg, you know, dysregulated and not getting our needs met our basic needs for, you know, safety and nutrition and all of those things, right.
So maybe we can hop a little bit into kind of a specific thing here because I know you had some shifts around food, right, that you noticed impacted your experience of your of your body but also of your mind and of your consciousness. Would you share a little bit about that kind of bottom up approach.
D: Yeah, you bet. And I to speak to the approach of bottom up or top down. Is it you it's really difficult to actually tease these things out. You know, I mean, it's a two-way street. Totally. There were some guys, some scientists who put together the compendium of all of the facial emotions, right? They, like, I don't know, hundreds, like a couple of hundred actual distinct emotions and what they look like on the human face. And they put together the catalog of this. And I don't recall their names.
They did it 30, 40 years ago. But one of the things that they noticed while they were doing it, because they'd be sitting around for hours together, okay, so what does disgust look like? What does joy look like? And all of these very specific emotions.
And what they noticed was that it's a two-way street. When they'd be sitting around trying to put together horror, horror, horror for a while, like what does horror look like? They felt horrible. Yeah. Right? They felt horrible in their body and in their, emotionally they felt horrible. And so it's all a two-way street, right?
Or three-way street or however many inputs there are there. So, but I had an experience when I was 42 where I changed my diet. And I changed it overnight and I changed it radically.
And I went to eating Whole Foods Vegan. And something very interesting happened is going to speak to what you're talking to here. And I had a feeling. I went through a process. There was a lot of purging. There was a lot of cleansing that went on and I didn't feel well for a few weeks.
And I might have stuck with it. And I got through that and I started to feel really good. And then I noticed one day, a couple months in, maybe a few months in, that there was a different feeling in the core of my body, in the core of my being. And what I recognized is that there had been a white noise there. There had been a physical feeling there.
And that physical feeling was gone. And the physical feeling was something I would call it the precursor to anxiety. It's not that I was stressed out, but I was almost stressed out. I had a feeling like there's something I should be stressing about. And that feeling went away. And I realized that I had been living with this for 42 years.
And I went, oh my God. So what you're talking to here is that there is a foundational aspect. We're living, we're inhabiting this body. And anything that is disrupting our capability to live our best lives, we're going to talk about intuition in a minute. Intuition often comes through the body, through the nervous system. And so if that is obfuscated by a lot of muscular tension and pain or other things, right, then that's going to be a headwind.
A major headwind in some cases, it'd be a flat out showstopper. If we're trying to develop our intuition, let's say, which is the vital thing to do, we'll get into that. So that happened to me.
And so when I heard you talking on my show and before that about the things you talked about, I went, that makes total sense. Because you take the whole idea of a hanosomatic therapy, it's not just relieving muscle pain and tension. It's freeing up resources. It's freeing up connectivity. It's freeing you up to live a better life. And I went, that makes total sense to me.
A: Yes, yes. And when you start to shift one thing, it affects all these other things too. Kind of like, again, going back to that holographic universe, when one thing shifts, and we become aware of something and we start taking action, and then we start feeling better and we start doing something about it. And then we get this little boon of confidence that, oh, maybe some other things in my world could shift.
If this can shift, maybe there's other things that can shift. And that's how we get on that momentum of evolution, of change, where we can have that confidence of having experienced our reality and our body's reality shifting. And then we see a way forward for other areas of our life. So it accumulates this feeling of possibility when we start moving in that direction.
And that's also related to intuition in the sense that once we start the practice of tapping in and noticing our intuition and noticing sometimes it's aligned with our thoughts, and sometimes it's not. Sometimes our thoughts are giving us some other programming. I'd say most of the time our thoughts are like, it's almost like our thoughts are the last to know. And our body is the first to know.
And then takes a moment. And sometimes for many people, there's like a lag between they experience something and they get a feeling and they're not really sure what that means. They're not really sure how they feel. And then it takes them a little bit of time.
Everybody's different. Some people, it takes them like maybe even like a week or two to process an interaction that they had or an experience that they had that they got this feeling and they couldn't really figure out what it was. And then like a week later that they're like, oh, like I realized like my boundaries were being infringed upon.
Like, oh, this didn't feel good. That's what was going on. That's what I was feeling in my body was something not sitting right with me. And then really the attendance to our intuition and the attendance to our somatic experience can start closing that gap, that lag time between like getting a feeling and then noticing what it is that this feeling is trying to tell you about what's happening around you or what's happening internally or about what kind of situation that you're in. So maybe now you can talk a little bit about intuition and as it relates to this idea of living a more evolved and aligned life.
D: Yeah, absolutely. I guess the first thing I like to say is why is intuition important? And the fact is, is we live in the information age. Which means that we also live in the disinformation age. Because if you go back, you know, look at all the ages, bronze age, iron age, industrial age, information age now. What you see is that the main technology of the day was used to make our lives better, was used to, you know, find food better and be more successful at all of the things that make humans human. It was also used to wage war on each other.
It was also used to control each other. And the same thing is happening right now. And so we're in the information age. We're also in the disinformation age. There's information wars happening as we speak and we're all being subjected to it.
There's highly sophisticated coordinated propaganda stuff going on constantly. And so it's much more important now than ever to develop our intuition so that we know what to pay attention to. And I would also say that, you know, when we actually, in a few minutes, we'll talk about the role of intention in evolution. We're going to realize that the information wars that are happening are here for a reason. And that it's actually a positive thing.
But what you spoke to is really absolutely vital. Recognizing the first hit is there's a couple of ways to develop our intuition. And one of them is kind of the short game 101 kind of thing. And the other one is a bigger picture, navigational device for our evolutionary path.
And the first one is what you were talking to. And that is intuition. What is intuition? It's information that is coming to us in a way that doesn't fit into the materialist paradigm there. Yeah, that's a good way to put it.
That's a big blanket, right? That covers a lot. And so, you know, we got, if we're going to develop our intuition, it's helped to start with. It's helpful to narrow it down and go, okay, what am I going to look for?
And so, anytime that we are faced with something new, anytime we meet someone, anytime we have a decision point on something, we have an instant hit, right? We have an instant intuitive hit. It comes through our heart and our solar plexus, our three and our four. And if we can learn to recognize that, that's the one that's right. That's the one, if you subscribe to this idea of a morphic field, that's the one that is tied very closely in with morphic field, senses out into the morphic field.
And the morphic field is entangled with all of the other fields. And so, it's getting rich, accurate information in real time. Well, what happens? Well, what happens is you kind of described it as we have a flash. It's a flash. It's right.
It's our intuitive hit. And then it's gone because there's a dog pile of all kinds of 3D world stuff and modern training, our hopes and our dreams and our memories and our traumas and our analytical mind going, I need more info. I need more info.
I need more info. They all jump on it and just totally cover it up. And we're left going, what was, if you're not trained, if you don't train yourself to really look for that hit, then it's so easy to miss. And also, training the body, opening up the body, freeing the body from all of the other things that are obfuscating its ability to sense that hit.
So doing those things so that you can actually receive the hit and recognize the hit is what you do in the 101 training. And then the tough part, then you have to trust it. So I recognize a hit.
Now I have to trust that hit because half of the time or more, it goes completely against all of the rational analysis that we put on it. And so learning to do that is the toughest part. But that's an important first step because if you do that, what's going to happen is you're going to, if you're accurately recognizing that intuitive hit, then you're going to start and following it.
Then you're going to start having results. You're going to start, you're going to realize that it's right. And you're going to start to trust it. And that's a beautiful thing because it is yourself. It is your inner knowing.
It is your connection with your higher self and with the field and with the entanglement and with your mission. Absolutely. Yeah.
Right. And so if that mission is that vision that you've put together for yourself is truly vibrating with who you really are, then it's vibrating with your intention. And your intention is going to lead you in that direction.
That's inevitable. And as you start to trust it, then you can go next level. And next level is you can start to put questions to it.
You can write. And so now you can really, really get down to the acceleration down your evolutionary path by putting questions to your intuitive knowing. And the thing, this is so advanced because it really, really takes nerve and grit because you're you start small, I would say, and work your way up to major life decisions.
And if you want to change something or you feel like there needs to be a change, then start put it to that. And there's a process that I use for that. And that is, it gives a little bit of time for the unfoldment of all of those intuitives hits to come in and let you know how a decision feels.
And this is, it's a really simple process. Let's say I've got two things to choose from A and B. And even if it's big, the thing that you do is you make the decision, you go, I'm choosing A. I'm choosing A and that's all there is to it.
And I'm done. I'm B is not even in my awareness. I've chosen A. Just choose A.
You don't have to tell anybody. But you know, with every fiber of your being, choose A. And what happens is we can't help but think forward into the future. We do it all the time. It's flat out impossible for us not to try as much as, you know, we are mindful in this practice and meditation, trying to be in the present moment like you are with me now.
Nice work. We're thinking into the future. And so if I make this decision that I'm going with A over the next few days, all of the implications will start to flood in.
Yeah. And the right, because I'm thinking into the future. And as I think into the future, I'm thinking into the future with choice A. Yes. Because B doesn't exist.
I just choice A. That's all I'm right there. And what the process then is to notice how I feel.
Yes. Those implications reveal themselves as I just, I'm sitting around doing my day. I'm in the shower, I'm eating breakfast, whatever, and those thoughts are coming in. How does that feel? And you're going to get a really pretty clear feeling of what decision A is, feels like in your life. Yeah, feels like in your body. In your, absolutely. It's a holistic thing, right?
And then after you've had a few days of this or whatever, how long it takes, I would never go far longer than a week sitting with A. And then drop it, choose B. Choose B. B is the only thing that exists. A doesn't even exist.
I've chosen B. Again, you don't have to tell anyone. And live with it. Let the implications of it unfold and feel it. And you'll get, you should get a very, very clear indication of which feels better and which feels worse. And you have to go with the one that feels better.
You have to, no matter what the numbers say when you pencil out, no matter what the pros and cons say, you have to go with the one that feels better. And it's going to make all of the difference in your life. And if you're intended becoming, it's aligned with your true self, then your intuition will take you in that direction.
A: Fabulous. I love this system that you're describing. I think that it's, you know, it's pragmatic. And it gives you that permission in a way, like not in the moment, because you're kind of like choosing something fully to feel it, like kind of like you're trying on a sweater or something.
Like, how does this feel to walk around with this, you know, in, in my reality of this and all the choices that are going to come from this and all the things that are going to be, you know, created from this decision, you know, how does that actually feel to live with that for, like you said, don't go longer than a week.
I think that's very reasonable, like to get a real good feel for it. And like the way that you're giving yourself ultimately permission to do both, you're giving yourself permission to change your mind in, in and choose the thing that actually feels right, right? And choose the thing that feels better after trying it on and giving it a real decent feel for how it goes.
You know, and I'll say like, it's, it's a reasonable thing to take that time with it, because like you said, there's a lot of energy and information that's constantly coming in that can get in the way of our inner knowing and get in the way of our decisions.
You know, I know that like when, you know, you're thinking about making certain decisions, we often are considering other people's reactions, other people's emotions, right? Other people's history and baggage and trauma that we may have to that there may be a consequence to our choice that we're going to have to interact with the world regarding our choice. It doesn't just get to be us, right?
In some ways. But what you're describing, and I like that you said both times, like you don't have to tell anybody, it can be this internal process where you actually check in and see how this sits for you, how this sits in your body, because at the end of the day, you know, you're going to have to live with whatever this choices, right? Other people will have to live with it too, but you're going to have to live with it.
And, you know, we can make choices that, you know, are taking all these other people's feelings into consideration and not taking our own into consideration. And then even if it seems like a good choice, if I'm not sitting well with this, it's not going to work out. You know, it's not going to work out if this is ultimately not aligned for me and not aligned for my evolution. There'll be something that, you know, lets this fall apart or I won't be actively participating in it.
I won't, you know, I won't want them be showing up, you know? And so we have to have that honesty with ourselves. And sometimes it's not going to feel pleasant, you know, sometimes, you know, and I tell people this is we're working somatically, you know, because there's this idea like, oh, you're going to feel so relaxed and calm when your nervous system calms down and you feel connected to your body. And it's like, yes, but some of that will happen. That's maybe like, you know, an end goal or like a attainment of an experience.
It's like a high point that we can get to. But what also happens when we become aware of ourselves is we become aware of the things that are not aligned and the things that don't feel good. And sometimes we have to feel how not good something feels before we can walk away from it, before we can change directions. We have to through that contrast really feel the impact of whatever it is we have been doing or how life has been going to go, oh, wow, this is really not aligned.
This is really not where I want to be. And sometimes that's not what our ego wants to hear. You know, that's not what, you know, it's inconvenient to be like facing that how we've been living or a relationship we've had or something is really been far out of alignment, maybe for a long time, you know, and is going to require an overhaul in our lives because it's not in, it's not on mission, right? It's not on purpose. It's not actually part of our evolutionary process.
D: Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. And it reminds me that someone was asking me when I was describing this process, how big of a decision can you use this for? And the answer is as big as you're willing to go, right? As big as matches your not only, I guess, sense of taking risks, but also your trust in it, right? You have to build that trust within yourself and within this process and trusting your gut and your heart.
And as an example, I've used it for all the major, major decisions in my life for about 10, 12 years at least. One of the biggest decisions in my life, I was dating my current partner, Katie, and we had been together for a year. And I had this sense that, first of all, I had an intuitive hit. I had a sense that I was at a decision point with Katie. So I said, okay, well, what, I mean, it was just so strong, I could not ignore it.
And so I, you know, I honored that and I sat down and went into deep meditation. I said, okay, so what are you going to do? What are your options? What are the things that you're choosing between here? I said, okay, well, my options are, we'd been dating for about a year.
My options are break up with her, ask her to move in, do nothing, status quo. And I sat with each of those, process took me about two weeks. And it was very clear. And the interesting thing about that was, and I asked her to move in, by the way, at that time.
But the interesting thing was, was that between the second and third runner-ups, the thing that felt the worst was status quo. And it was very clear to me that status quo was not a thing that we were going to do. And so, but asking her to move in felt way better than breaking up with her.
And so we went that way. And the interesting thing about that is that, that powerful initial hit that I had that it's, it's decision time came in, she moved in in December, I think, of 19 to three months before a global pandemic hit. That was a major, major line of demarcation for us. If we had not been together at that time, who knows how that would have gone.
It would have either driven us apart, or it would have had this kind of weird forcing together, like, well, I guess you're here all the time anyway, you know, and, you know, the way it's played out over the last five years, she's an amazing partner.
I don't think I can ask for better this. I mean, not only do I love her dearly, and she's a wonderful, passionate, loving, kind, compassionate person. And I'm very in love with her.
But like, who's going to travel the world with me like this, you know, that we, we've chosen a life that would drive a lot of people nuts. And she's so on board. And she's, and she's just been an amazing partner. And, and we're able to engage in this because of that. And, you know, that's because I was able to follow my intuition.
And that's a big, big decision. And I did the same thing for walking out of my corporate job five years ago, to start the evolution, right? I put it through that test. And I was like, there was no way I could stay in the job. It was, it was once you get really honest with yourself like this, it's, it was an impossibility. I literally put it in the job. Yes.
A: I love hearing your process about this. I think that people who are listening are going to be curious to kind of try this on. And, you know, those, those intuitive hits that we get that are, you know, we don't know the full picture yet. But as you said, then you see like, Oh, three months later, it's like, there's this thing that happens that maybe my system was already picking up on something.
We don't know what's going to occur. And it can go that way with like, when we let go of something, or when we make a decision that, you know, stops what we previously were doing. And now there's like a hole in our lives where something was that's not there anymore.
Right. And we don't exactly know sometimes what's going to, you know, like you said, ideally, we can replace it and fill that space. But sometimes we don't know.
And that can be a source of panic and frustration and uncertainty. But there's that trust that we can develop with ourselves that there's an opening now for something to come in or some space in my life that's going to get filled. And, you know, what am I going to, what am I going to ask the universe to fill that with?
What am I going to invite into that space that now exists in my life? You know, and so kind of thinking about like, what the pandemic was, and how you got that intuitive hit something, there's, there's going to be some reason right now that it's important to, to, to make this choice. Right.
And like being able to be open to the mystery of that and make those decisions and, you know, allow for those changes to occur, even when we don't know the future, even when we don't know how it's going to play out. Right. And I think that goes back to this idea of trust and trusting ourselves, right, and trusting our, our holographic universe.
D: Yeah, absolutely. All of that. And also trusting that it has something to do with that it's important for our evolutionary process. And our evolutionary process is important for the evolutionary process of our species.
Because if you take this idea of intuition, and you apply it to evolution, and ask, how does this relate to it? It relates in a couple of interesting ways. First of all, it's a tool that we can use to navigate our, our evolutionary and accelerate us toward that intended becoming. So it gets us on that path and gets us moving towards it, but it's also the outcome of that process.
Yeah. So as we develop our intuition to help us move toward our evolution, part of our evolution becomes the development of our intuition. And the reason that intuition is an important part of our evolution as an individual is so that we can live our best life.
Our best life is the best way that we can evolve the species. And what does an evolved human look like? When I think about this, the only thing that I can think of that really would make a difference in terms of how we express as a species, a capabilities as a species, is that we evolve into the highest form of intuition that I can think of.
And that is that we come into experiential knowing, full apprehension, direct apprehension of our connectedness. So we become a species who no longer talks about it, who no longer thinks of it as some theoretical construct, our connectedness, or we study it in quantum physics, but we don't really know how it's going, how this is working with us.
Right? We see little clues here and there. No, we absolutely 100% perceive it.
It's not a question for any of us. And that's the next level of human. That's an ascended human who perceives their connectedness with each other and with greater fields in which we're embedded, life, for instance, nature, right?
For instance, Mother Gaia, the universe, you know, the solar system, the galaxy, and so forth. And so the thing that happens is when that happens, we no longer, like going to war doesn't make any sense. I would no longer punch you in the face than I would gauge my own eye out.
It's all the, I were the same thing. So just like that, we stop warring, we stop violence, and well, what happens then? Look at the resource allocation of the human species. Look at the focus of money, of time, attention of genius that we put on weapons, on building bombs, on building better bombs that are more destructive. Well, what if we shifted all of that to within a generation?
We'd have free energy. We'd have gravitation control. We would be out instead of mining the earth for the minerals that we'd need. We'd be mining asteroids that are just flying along through space anyway. And ultimately, we'd be birthed to the stars.
We would be able to do that. I mean, what, I mean, think about what's holding us back. Look at all of the resources that we're putting into controlling each other and killing each other. We shift that into these things that are actually going to be beneficial for humanity and for the planet.
And that is going to happen instantly because humans are effing amazing. So this, to me, constitutes the next level of humanity is when we're able to develop our intuition to the point to where we can sense and really have that experiential knowing of our connectedness.
A: I love it. Yes. And it's very much aligned with the person who created my modality, Thomas Hannah, talks about the new human that's mutating into this full awareness of sensing and feeling beyond the five senses or beyond our typical awareness.
Or really, when I say typical, it's like the awareness that's available when we are trapped in our fight or flight, which is the survival mode that humanity has been living under. And so there's so much here that I can see as you're speaking about this vision that you have of the world that you see that's possible.
This is on, that you're aligning to, that you're practicing aligning to that vision. It's happening as above, so below, as within, so without. When we start focusing on how we're spending our resources, kind of looping back around to those ideas of what am I spending my time doing?
What am I spending my time focusing on? What am I taking responsibility for in my body and in my life that I'm looking at my shit and I'm dealing with my shit so that as it vibrates out into the rest of this world, we're moving in that direction.
We're moving in the direction of the new human that you described who is interconnected and aware and unconsciously taking those actions and unconsciously building those positive habits that are the things that are going to transform this world.
So I think this is such an amazing conversation. I would love for people to know more about your podcast. So maybe you can take a moment to tell people about where they can find more amazing conversations with you and also about maybe just say a little bit about the format of your podcast because it's really unique. I hadn't been on a podcast like that before.
D: Yeah, cool. So the evolutionary is available on all of the major platforms. I'm thinking about pairing down a little bit. I push out to all of them at the moment so you can go in there and search the evolutionary. That doesn't show up but put in my name as well and it will certainly show up. Spotify, Apple, Google, you name it, it's there.
And that's the audio only. And back in the beginning of this year, I shifted over to focusing more on a video format and started doing these live streams. And so we live stream on Facebook and YouTube and both of those, the handle is the evolutionary life. So, facebook.com/theevolutionarylife and youtube.com/@the evolutionarylife. We'll get you there.
And obviously I would love it if you subscribe to my YouTube channel. And what we started doing was we started to do a live stream slash after party. Okay, so we do the live stream and we have people that join on the zoom call but then it's also live streaming on those two platforms.
And then the people on the zoom call get to stay on when we end the live stream. And then we have a more interactive last half of the show and Amy, you did this and it was absolutely brilliant. You answered some questions that people had about their bodily pain and discomfort and walked us through some exercises.
It was wonderful. I've had a human design expert on who did readings for people. We had a death cafe where is well, it's technically called the death salon where we went around and everyone shared about I think there was a dozen of us on that call in the after party and everyone shared about how death is showing up in their lives and it was all you know, non there was no judgment, there was no trying to solve anyone's problems or just kind of holding space and processing. And it was really a beautiful one and you know, on and on.
And so this is the format that I've come up with that is that is really nourishing and a whole lot of fun. And they're not all going to be like that. I'm probably going to have some scientific people on pretty soon that we might forego the after party because they don't have an activity to engage in. But then you know, I have some woo woo people on I had a channeler on and she answered a bunch of questions as while channeling that was super fun.
We're probably going to have a friend of hers on pretty soon who is a galactic star seed and she's going to answer some questions too in the after party. So it's a super fun format and it's really engaging. And yeah, and the way that you can do that and if you want to get a hold of me, of course, you can go to the website which is theevolutionary.life because dot com is so last season, no offense to freeyoursoma.com.
That's the evolutionary.life. And you can sign up to get our newsletter there. You can also become a member all of the after parties get posted in the members area. And we're building a nice library there of super cool content. Awesome.
A: Yes, check them out. In the show notes, you'll find all that information there. Highly recommend the podcast I've been listening and it's it's fascinating and you've been doing it a while. So there's kind of like a fair amount of content with like lots of different subjects.
There's also some solo casts that you've done that really talk about even go deeper into some of the concepts that we explored today. So check it out, follow David and thank you again for coming on and having this incredible conversation with me. It's been such a great connection.
D: Yeah, thank you, Aimee. Thanks for having me on the show. This has been super fun.
A: Hey there, friends. I hope you enjoyed today's episode. I would love to hear your thoughts. Follow me on Instagram at AimeeTakaya and send me a DM about this episode. I'd like to thank you for being part of this somatic revolution. And if you'd like to support the podcast and help more people learn about somatics, consider leaving a review or a rating.
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