Hey guys, welcome back to another episode of Soulful Sessions. This is actually my final solo episode for the series. We'll be finishing Season Two today starting up with season three towards the end of August. And I wanted to finish off with an episode around a topic that is very close to my heart and something that I have been embodying for the past year. And you probably guessed from the name of this episode, but that is following your heart and following your dreams. A year ago, I was in a completely different place to where I am now my relationship was falling apart. I was very unhappy, being stuck back in England. And like them, like the rest of us, I was stuck in the collective pain of being in the pandemic. But I knew I didn't want to stay in that place. And as soon as the borders open, I'd left to Cyprus to stay with some family. And then after hearing from my cousin's partner, I headed to Valencia where I decided I was going to get my residency. And I was going to spend some time to really heal myself and fall back in love with who I was, what my dreams were, and really start embodying them in my life. And it wasn't to say that that decision wasn't hard, and that I didn't feel the fear because I most certainly did. The suffering in who I was, and the experiences that I was allowing into my life was getting too much for me to to bear anymore. I'd been on my journey for the past five years after my first spiritual awakening. And realizing that I'd kept this part of me so private and doled down that I really wanted to change that. I wanted to make it a part of my life and step into who I am now, which is embodying my truth and living my truth and involves-- evolving in that every day, growing in that every day. And I want to use my story not as a way to, for you guys to think that I'm better than you or in a way to see us as separate. We all have this power within us to make these decisions for our lives, to follow our dreams. And I get at first it's hard we have these excuses that come through our mind. Right, and I was there, everything under the sun was an excuse for why I couldn't go after my dreams. I didn't have the money, I didn't have the resources, I didn't have the time. Can you think of some of these narratives that go through your head? And then other times it's, it's not going to work, we see it as impossible we see it as out of our reach. We're not qualified enough, we need to get this qualification before we're qualified to speak our truth, right. And like I mentioned in my previous episode about letting go, these belief systems that you hold, or any belief system that you hold at all an illusion, and I get that can really rock your boat a little bit at first. But when you start to realize that your beliefs that you allow to run your life, don't serve you, don't serve your dreams don't serve what you truly want. Your belief systems are serving what you've been taught, what you think is acceptable, what you think is right, what you've heard on the news, or what you've heard on the media, whatever it may be. And I'm talking about those ones that are really limiting those limiting beliefs that are holding you back that are making you feel smaller or not worthy, or that you're not enough, or that you can't go after your dreams. Right? These belief systems, when you make the choice, to get to know yourself, and I believe this is one of the most important things that you can do. If you're going to really start to want to go after your dreams, and really want to live a different life might change in your life. You have to dedicate yourself to yourself, to getting to know yourself, a finding that self love, believing that you are worthy. And that does take work. It takes consistency, practice dedication to yourself above all else. And when you do this, and when you use the language to support that I am worthy, right? When you believe that you are worthy. And you speak as though you are I used to tell myself all the time I'm not creative. And by saying that I made myself not creative. And as soon as I started to change that narrative, and the language that I used, I am creative. It's possible for me to be creative. I started to become a creative person. Because that part of me was already within me, I just wasn't allowing it to come out. Because I was blocking it with my belief system. And we all do this, right? I'm sure there are situations in your life where you can think of that you are using language to block yourself off from your abundance to block yourself off from the power that you have within you. But when you get to know yourself, you get to see where you are blocking yourself off from your blessings, where you're not allowing yourself to experience the totality, the fulfillment of your life. And we are all here to do that we are all here to expand and express. And if you keep restricting yourself with your belief system of your language, then you won't be able to go after your dreams because you will perceive that they are out of your reach. So getting to know yourself, building that relationship with yourself allows you to understand those and go past them. Follow your dreams. And it's not to say that it doesn't feel scary. Every single time I make a leap, I feel the fear. But it's also about changing our perspective on this, these negative emotions or emotions that we deem as negative such as fear, I believe that they are great resources of reminding us that we are getting to the edge of our comfort zone by getting to the edge of our comfort zone, it means that we're going somewhere new. And when we want change in our life, that's what we have to do, we have to go into the new we have to go into the unseen, the unknown, right? Nothing is created from what already is otherwise we just keep repeating the same cycles into our lives. So when you get to know yourself, and when you lean into this trust, and know that fear is just that reminder, fear is also a guidance system, right? It has so much energy within you and using that energy instead of whole allowing it to hold you back by obsessing over. I feel fear here. This is obviously not right for me, we can flip that right, we can see it as excitement, we can use that energy that's behind fear to fuel us into our dreams to propel us forward. When we don't have that adrenaline in within ourselves, right? Sometimes we need that push. So by taking these leaps, and by understanding yourself and understanding how your emotions can be used in a way to support them, your thoughts, your beliefs, your actions, your words can all be used to support your dreams, you have to make that decision that you have to make that decision to make this your new reality. And then it's also about believing. And I believe so much in my imagination. And I get that's a weird thing. Because we're often not supported to be imaginative, if we're not children anymore, right? But your imagination, and I'm not talking about imagination in the sense of being obsessive about imagining that wedding with that really toxic guidance without review two years ago, I'm talking about imagination in the sense of when you sit from a quiet space, and you sit in silence with yourself through meditation, or when you're on your run, whatever way that works out for you. You can really begin to think about what do I want for my life? What am I dreams, what are the things that I really want to do. And when those things are coming through and you start to vision, then you start to hear the different ways in which you could work how you get those those pangs of excitement about it, right? Those are the things that your soul that the universe has put in you for a reason to express itself in its own unique way. Your imagination, is God the universe, whatever you want to call it, speaking through you, your highest self connecting to you to show you that this is your potential. And that does evolve that does expand over time. As we learn contrast, we learn the things that we like, and when we don't like and what we want and how we want to do things. But that pure desire that you can't shake that you've never been able to shake, and everyone has this and if you haven't seen it yet, the more you spend time with thinking what am I love to do for free? Or what do I love to do since a child or building the relationship with yourself can even unfold these things. Those are the things that are communicated through you. And if you allow them to come to the surface, if you allow to trust in the unknown trust in the unseen trust in that which does not exist and you can't materialize yet or you can't see smell, hear with the senses but you know in your heart to be the truth of who you are and what you want. The more you lean into that and allow that to be expressed through you, the more you can follow your dreams. Speaking in terms of what's in my reality right now, I'm not where I want to be. There's further parts of my journey of where I want to get to, but I've stopped seeing my journey as This linear thing of here I am, and I need to get there. Now it's about embodiment. So think about that dream right now think about that thing you want, I want you to do this exercise with me. Think about that dream that you want. Think about the thing that deep down your heart knows to be the truth of what you can achieve. And nothing is too big. The universe doesn't think in terms of big and small, nothing is too big. What is the dream without any limitations? What is that dream that you want to go after? and really think about that? visualize it, hear it? Whatever way works for you. Right? slow breathing? How does that feel? How does that thing unfolding in front of you right now? In your mind feel? Right? What feelings are you getting? Are you feeling connected? Are you feeling free? Are you feeling abundant? Are you feeling joy? What are those feelings that are common for you don't have to label them. Just feel it. Okay? That feeling that you're feeling right now, even if it's just a slight, little bit, even if you're just feeling it just a little bit, that feeling is the universe showing you that this is your gift that this is the direction that you need to go in? That this is what you want to unfold in your reality? And what can unfold in your reality? Let me tell you, I know this is a strange concept to imagine. But what you're imagining right now in your mind, what you're feeling in your body right now, based on that vision based on I think that thing is real, right? That's already there. It's already created vibrationally, it's already there. There's no need to chase it, there's no need to think of how do I get from here to here, just embody those feelings. So I'll give you an example in my life of where I want to get to instead of thinking anymore about where I want to get to of how to manifest of how to do this, I need to create this I need to concert every day, it's building the relationship and connection with myself. I like meditation. So I do a lot of meditation, I do a lot of dance practice through the body, right? Find the ones that work for you. I feel these feelings of these visions. And I know that these visions and now I know that this is created, I know that it's done. And then I allow my day to just go on as normal. And when the impulse comes in, of the actions that I need to do to take me a step closer to towards that dream, materializing in the external world, I do it. And sometimes I'm off and sometimes I'm right. But the main thing here is embodiment is that my way to my need to feel this way. My wants are to feel this way. My desire to feel this way is nowhere in the future. It's now I don't have to wait for this thing to come to feel it. And by following your dreams in your reality, day to day, in the present moment, you just feel those feelings. Regardless, you feel that abundance without that million dollars, you feel that joy without that ecstatic event happening in your life, you feel that love without that part of it, showing you the love, right. And that's self regulation that's learning to rely on yourself for those things. And by doing that, by tapping into those emotions, you can follow your dreams with a greater sense of ease. Because you know that the universe is working through you, not to you through you. And by working through you whatever channel is up, whatever happens is for your benefit. So your external reality does not become a determinant of whether you're going to follow your dreams or not. Because following your dreams is just a lifestyle choice, right. And when you make that choice, there's no going back in its embodiment of them in the place that you are now knowing that the imagination form of it, the formless form of the dream is just as real as when it comes down and materialize into your reality. And I get that this can be a difficult concept to grasp. So you can always reach out for me on Instagram, @EmmaEvelynCampbell_, underscore if you have any questions, or any books that you'd like me to suggest to you for actually getting out on this journey and really beginning to understand it and navigate it. But I wanted to take the end of this episode as a moment of gratitude to all of you who have listened to my episodes downloaded, my episodes got in contact with me. And I've listened since February or have been a recent listener and watched as I evolve. And hopefully some of you have evolved alongside me like learning about these concepts. And I don't teach this way to show you right or wrong. I teach this way to open you up to different perspectives, and know that we're on this journey together to learn and as the student of life we want to continue to learning it's like I've said so many times it's not about who's right or wrong. It's just about that curiosity and the ability to share ourselves together. And I'm so glad that you have all joined me and season three will be releasing towards the end of August. So we'll have a little bit of a break for creative purposes. And I also have my radio station, which runs Tuesdays to Fridays 10am EST. That's also going live on YouTube. So you can tune in Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, and just catch up with me in the mornings. I like to just channel up what comes up on the day. And it's really about just helping us feel really empowered to know the power within ourselves and live a limitless life based on that power, right? Using that fear to, to get us to our dreams. And each day, we have different topics that come through. And I've also got a telegram group that you can join to interact with me, or suggest some topics that you would like me to cover. So I'll leave all those links in the show notes. If you want to get involved any more than you definitely can. Thank you so much, everyone, for joining me on this journey for season two and continuing to support me in all the ways that you do. Thank you very much everyone, and I will see you soon.