Holding the Peace

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At times when it seems like I’m getting off track or I’m feeling disconnected to myself, I then realize that this sort of imbalance is caused by the various debris that I’ve been carrying around for a long time.

With everything that’s happening around us, how do we get to that point where we can hold space in such a way that it begins to ground us and the others around us?

That’s what brings us to today’s conversation on holding the peace.

Many of you may know that I do love spending time in Sedona, and it is in that place where I got to connect with my walking partner for this conversation, Samantha Jackson.

In this episode, we talk about what it means to take a great pause and what that can mean for us, the beauty and healing of being in nature, and finding the balance between busyness and the still.

In This Episode

• (03:31) - Connecting with Samantha after our journey in Sedona
• (6:34) - What the great pause has been for Samantha
• (9:13) - Losing the divine connection
• (14:29) - Carrying debris around for a very long time
• (15:37) - Looking back at the pause I went through and feeling the pain of separation
• (18:30) - Samantha’s experience of being one with nature in Sri Lanka
• (25:49) - Finding a balance between the busyness and the still
• (31:37) - What Holding the Peace means to Samantha and how she began writing it
• (34:02) - How the media, news, and social media can provoke us
• (38:43) - Moving and the clearing energy through circling
• (50:24) - Can fear and stress serve as ways of returning us to peace?
• (53:04) - Recognizing that the value that I had around freedom had shifted
• (55:08) - The relationship between peace and balance

Notable Quotes

• “In that moment when I was in Sri Lanka, I felt like nature had my back, and that nature was reminding me that like, ‘Look kid, life gets rough, but I still got you, and you can always come back to me to kind of clear out’. And I was like, oh yeah, it just sort of felt like some arms were being put around me and taking care of me, and telling me to like sort of wake up and don’t forget the beauty and the healing of just being in nature.” - Samantha (22:28)
• “Several years ago, quite a few years ago, I had recognized that the value that I had around freedom had shifted, used to be, to do what I want, when I want, with whom I want. And then it was, no, this is actually about inner freedom. It's not about the circumstances. It's not about any of those things. I wanna feel that freedom within to just simply, purely be who I am. And so I chose freedom. Well the universe is a jokester and the universe realizes that, oh, if you want freedom, then I'm gonna bring you everything in the world that shows you how you are not free. And so like all of my beliefs, like everything I was doing to block my own freedom was just like right there, front and center, smack in front of my face. And so I share that because having been through that, I am aware of it, at least, maybe it still takes some time in different experiences, but peace is the same way, so I know that if the center of everything for me is returning, restoring that peace that's within me, and so I now recognize that fear and that stress are like invitations to clear, cos there's something here that is preventing or blocking your peace.” - Luke (53:04)

Our Guest

Samantha Jackson is a lifelong intuitive, empath and channel of the Divine Collective and her higher self. She is the host of the Soul Journey podcast where she reads her channeled messages and interviews people from around the world who have a unique “soulprint”. She occasionally puts out beautiful channeled writings and messages which include “Holding The Peace”.

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