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You didn't come here to play safe. You came to remember your power and build what comes next. I'm Sylvia Beatriz, psychic medium and intuition coach, and this is Soul Level Human, the podcast for truth-tellers, cycle-breakers and soul-led revolutionaries. You didn't come here to bypass the chaos. You came here to lead through it. Lead through it. What a week, huh. I feel like I say that every week.

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At this point, this episode is coming out on the heels of Jimmy Kimmel being taken off the air after pressure from the FCC, which is new, and the targeting of the press and celebrities is a common redline indicator for many people to leave the States, according to all the message boards I've been in on Reddit on comment sections. So tell me why. The energetic transmission that came in so strongly this week was hope, hope. It was so strong all week, everywhere. It was all about hope. And I will be the first to tell you that the decision to stay or leave is a completely personal one, and I urge you to tap into your own inner wisdom, your own intuition, your higher guidance for that type of decision.

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Please don't go see a psychic and give your power away. I am a psychic. This is coming from a psychic. It makes me so angry that so many people literally outsource their entire life and power like this. Support Totally, yes, let somebody read the energy for you. Give you some information and insights, sure, but give up your authority in your life, no. So back to hope. I'm going to play a clip for you from a virtual call that Jimmy Kimmel had with Adi Barkin a few years ago. If you're not familiar with Adi, he was a lawyer, healthcare activist and a father of two. He was diagnosed with ALS four months after becoming a dad and he spent the rest of his life advocating for Medicare for all.

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Do you feel optimistic that real change will come? Adi, the future is as unpredictable as ever. You and Molly learned that as well as anyone when Billy was born, and America has been reminded of that vividly in recent years with the election of Donald Trump, with the coronavirus pandemic, with everything. So no, I am not optimistic about the future. I don't have a prediction about how it will go, but I am hopeful about the future. And here's the difference between optimism and hope. Optimism is an opinion. Hope is a spur to action. Hope is not a lottery ticket that we cling to. It's a hammer that we use in an emergency to break the glass, sound the alarm and spring into action.

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There is something about him and his story that just resonates with me so deeply, I don't know. Maybe if we understood how important our time here is, then less of us would waste it. And and he became a dad around the time that we had our first baby. We were a year apart. He's a 1983 kid and I'm a 1984 kid and I made it to 40 and he didn't. Strong possibility that he wouldn't get to change the system like he wanted to. He wouldn't get to do it all in time and save his own life. But that hope that things could be different still had an impact, still got him up out of bed in the morning and his kids will know how hard he fought to be with them as long as possible and they'll know how not even an ALS diagnosis stopped that man from doing everything he could to build a better country, a better future for them. That's hope.

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Hope works hand in hand with courage, heart-centered fire in the face of fear and bleak circumstances. Optimism is mindset, cerebral override. It's nice, it's useful, but it doesn't have the same rootedness that hope does. Hope is a product of having wrestled with the dark, knowing that the sun always rises again, the seasons change, nothing lasts forever, that the natural universe balances itself. Natural universe balances itself. Hope is a choice built brick by brick through consistent action, a choice made again and again. Just ask any actor worth their salt here in LA or New York. Of course, their passion and drive aren't fueled by optimism, pollyanna, naivete. No, it's grit, it's resilience. It's being in the moment in an audition, even though they just crashed out to the max hours earlier about feeling behind in their career. It's booking their headshots and investing in a professional photographer and a makeup artist. That's, that's hope. It's betting on the possibility of something happening. Or look at a couple facing infertility deciding to try another round of IVF Investment of time, energy, money. There's heartache, loss, hardship, doubt, but that reality calling them forward, the sheer glimmer of possibility, is enough. Hope to power them through all of it. That level of commitment to the outcome they want, that integrity that keeps them showing up, focused every day, despite hardship, despite fear, despite worst case scenario and despite even failure, the possibility that it might not happen. That's the power of hope, that the impossible just might be possible.

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The most common responses I see in comment sections are what's the point? We're cooked chat. Democracy is dead. That's despair with zero action. No fight, no fire. That is crab mentality. You know the idea that if you put one crab in a bucket it crawls out, no problem, but if you put a few in there, they just pull each other down and nobody's allowed to escape. If I can't see it, if I can't have it, you can't have it either. Do you know people like this? They call themselves realists, people plugged into the 3D, but the reality, their version of 3D that they're plugged into, is only based on what they've experienced in the past. So if they've never seen it, it doesn't exist. And therefore you're stupid for trying to create something different, for believing that something else is possible. And also, who do you think you are to think that you're exempt from those rules? Oh, you think you're so special. Just because they lack hope and vision and imagination, they want you to stay in the bucket with them.

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Meanwhile, there are thousands of Americans, of people all over the world, still showing up daily to keep fighting for a better, more beautiful future, or at least a better, more beautiful today. And today and today, one step at a time. There's Representative Melanie Stansbury keeping attention on getting justice for the survivors on the list, the list and uncovering corruption. I can't even imagine how scary that must be. That's a dangerous thing to do, but she's still showing up and she's not alone. There's TikToker Hester Jean Lee here in LA, who started getting money together and buying street vendors out of their entire inventory just so they can go home and stay safe, and now her account has blown up and thousands of people are funding her work so that she can do more and also take care of herself while doing it. I'll leave her link in the show notes in case you feel inspired to help. There's Chef Jose Andres, whose organization World Central Kitchen partners with locals to feed people in disaster areas, including Gaza, where their team members have been targeted and killed and aid distribution blocked, and he's still trying doing everything he can. Blocked, and he's still trying doing everything he can. There's Gazan music teacher, ahmed Muin Abu-Amsha, who is using music therapy to help people of all ages to feel human again in Gaza. He's even using the sound of the drones to teach people to sing and harmonize to help them cope with their daily reality. I can't even imagine that psychological warfare of having the buzz of those drones just hovering over them with zero break and he's turning it into something beautiful.

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If they didn't have hope, if they didn't choose to hope, they wouldn't get out of bed, and it would make sense if they didn't get out of bed. If anybody has a free pass to not get out of bed, to feel despair, to feel hopeless, it's them. Hope isn't the easy choice. Despair is Giving up, is Overwhelm. Is it's so much easier to give in to the worst case scenario in your head, reaching for hope and then letting it fuel action? Are you kidding? But if they can find a way to reach for hope, I can too. Here's an excerpt from an article in theconversationcom by Kendra Thomas, associate Professor of Psychology, hope College.

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Hope is often defined in psychological research as having strong will to succeed and plans to reach a goal. Hope is stronger than optimism at predicting academic success and people's ability to cope with pain. Plenty of scientific evidence suggests that hope improves individuals' health and boosts their well-being. Hope improves individuals' health and boosts their well-being. But branding hope as a self-improvement tool cheapens this long-established virtue. Hope has benefits beyond the self. Thus, many psychologists are expanding the study of hope beyond personal success. My research team defines this quote-unquote virtuous hope as striving toward a purposeful vision of the common good, a hope often shaped by hardship and strengthened through relationships. Channeled that lesson to inspire change.

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Centuries of spiritual and philosophical work describe hope as a virtue that, like love, is a decision, not a feeling. Maybe, along with looking for helpers, like Mr Rogers said, it would be helpful to also look for the hopers. Let their hope re-spark yours. Of course they get tired, of course they get discouraged. They're human. Look around, who wouldn't? But a small flame of hope grows into a collective fire If you surround yourself with others, in the trenches, with you. Community is key. Collective action is the magic. Hope is an act of courage in the face of despair. And maybe courage and hope are simply the qualities of the human spirit.

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This whole podcast is called Soul Level Human, after all, the spirit, the soul, the fire that can't be taken or destroyed. You have it. Tap into it, let it fuel you, let it show you what your next steps are. Choose the timeline that you're here to anchor. Know that, even when it's hard, you being here is enough. You showing up in hope and courage, step by step, each choice, each action. You are creating that reality.

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And the timeline isn't up to us, right. We're not in control of when we get to the goal, but knowing that you're walking in that direction. That goal is an inevitability and you are doing what it takes in the now moment and in the next now moment, and you're not alone in the trenches. People are waking up. There is hope, there is reason to fight for a better world, there is reason to not give up and just let the dark take over.

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Hope. May you look for it, may you find it, may you tend to it, and may you find others to hold it with you, because you don't have to hold it all by yourself. Hope, that's it, that's the message. Thank you for listening to Soul Level Human. If this episode moved something in you, share it. Text it to a friend, post to your stories. The Soul Level Revolution spreads one brave human at a time and your voice makes a difference. So until next time, remember to slow down, tune in, trust your guidance and keep having the audacity to choose the highest timeline. When you show up fully, you give others permission to do the same. Make this the timeline where you show up.