SSP 086: Weekly Lesson - Lockdown Lessons

Hey, what's going on, guys? It's Jordan Kanlis here, speaker, coach and founder of State Shifters. And you're listening to the State Shifters podcast, a show designed to help conscious achievers master their internal state and break free from the limiting patterns that are keeping them stuck. So you can live a life of passion, purpose and freedom. And on this podcast, you're going to receive everything you need to evolve physically, emotionally, spiritually. And you're going to be getting the tools, the strategies, the live coaching interviews, all, all from conscious creators who are also living their purpose and leaving their mark on the world. And really, it's my belief that we're all capable of greatness. And once we have the courage to own our pain and learn the lessons from our past, we can create a future built around our purpose. 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I'm jumping on here to do a quick live to share some lessons. What an interesting time, interesting time we're in, you know, out here in Perth, you know, latest news from the paradise on earth. Out here in Perth, Western Australia, we've actually gone into lockdown. So as of today we are got a five day lockdown, meaning we can't go outside for a reason unless it's for work or for essentials. We have to wear masks. And this is, this is all like foreign territory for us Western Australians because we've been relatively Covid free for the last six months. So this is, this is quite new for a lot of us out here and obviously for most people around the world this is normality, you know, been in lockdown. So we're locked inside And I want to jump on here and give you guys some big lessons because in my life personally, I've gone through a lot of big transitions, a lot of breakdowns and a lot of breakthroughs over the last four weeks. And I kind of feel like I've come out the other end of it now in a place where I can share some insights with you guys to hopefully inspire you along your journey. And one of the main things I'm happy to share is we've just moved into a new place, my girlfriend and I, and it's a nice little one bedroom apartment. If you can see out there. Hold on, let me spin this camera around. Got the bike out there, yoga mat, you know, everything's looking quite, quite a nice little setup. I've set my desk up there. For those who are listening onto this on the podcast afterwards, you have to check out the live to see the video. But yeah, we've settled in. You know, we've been in here a couple of days now. And for those who've moved house before, which I'm sure people have, you know, the move in process is hectic. Like it's, you know, you're moving shit around. It can sometimes take a few days to settle in and get grounded. And throughout that process, it brought a lot of stuff up for me and my partner. And a lot of really powerful lessons come out of transitioning and changing environments. And I've spoken about this before, been following my journey this, this year or Last year, in 2020, I moved couple of times and I've spoken about the power in changing environment to essentially clean the slate. It's like a blank canvas. When you move into a new place, you've got a blank canvas to instill and to embody new habits, new ways of being. Because for most of us, our patterns, our habits are so unconscious and they're shaped by our environment. Our environment triggers us into unconscious habits. Right? We just, you think that and you wake up in the morning, you just, you go through your morning routine and sometimes you're not even, you know, you're not even thinking about it. So, you know, to have a new environment gives you an opportunity to be very clear as to who you want to be in that new environment. And then you've got, you know, your three weeks to download and install this new way of being that will, will persist because you want your environment working for you, not against you. So this has been such a, this was such an important level up for my partner and I because, you know, when we arrived back in Western Australia last year, our environment was very unsettled. We weren't sure if we were staying, we weren't sure if we're going to be able to travel again. So to now have an environment where we can get grounded, get stable, and I can start to install the next software, the next level up in my, in my evolution. I'm very, very excited to commit to some new habits and some new ways of being that I'm going to share with you guys to support me being a larger capacity to hold more energy in the body. And that's really the foundation of whatever systems or practices or habits you have set up should be to allow you to hold more life force energy. And you know, I'm making a list of things down here that I wanted to share with you guys. And if I'm looking down, I'm just checking in with the list to make sure that I'm getting across everything that I intended to. So one of the first ones and I'll get back onto the environment, the habits and the commitments in a second. But one of the big lessons that's come up for me over the last few weeks has been living with integrity. And you know, living with integrity has been such a, an important element in my journey because, you know, oftentimes if you're a people pleaser, if you're someone who says yes to lots of things, which I've caught myself doing that in the past, it can be very quickly, you can very quickly over commit yourself to things or very quickly catch yourself not following through on the promises you keep. And that's kind of the lack of integrity that kind of drips into all areas of life, right? If you catch yourself saying things to people and not following through, not arriving on time, not showing up for meetings, not, you know, committing to certain tasks or certain favors that you give to people, that, you know, lack of integrity, you lose your power. Because when you give your word away and not follow through on it, like it reduces your power in life. So I became aware of some areas in my life where I was not following through. And if I live by the mantra, how I do one thing is how I do everything. If I'm, you know, falling short in a certain area, chances are there's another area in my life where I'm not following through on it and living with integrity. So it caused me to sit back and reflect on, okay, where am I out of alignment, where am I out of integrity? My relationships in my business, my personal life, and I got to take stock because when you're very potent and very selective with what you commit to and what you say. You become a whole lot more direct. You come a whole lot more effective in the game of life. And especially if you run a business, integrity will determine how far that business goes because it's trust. You know, people can't trust what you say, how they're gonna rely on you, how they're gonna, like, invest in you. So becoming very direct, very firm, very selective. And this is where the integration of the masculine, if you've found yourself swaying too far in the feminine, too floaty and just like go and giving your word to things, not actually show showing up because it didn't feel right. It's time to get that back in alignment, to check back in with your firmness and your word and really say what you mean and mean what you say. So integrity was a big one that's come up for me. And I'm really just pulling back for a second to reflect on where am I, where in my life am I lacking integrity and can I, can I correct that and restore integrity in the key areas? So I wanted to share that the next one is the quality of our life is determined by the quality or the amount of difficult conversations we're willing to have. So over the last couple of weeks, I've had to have some really difficult conversations in my life with some friends and some people that I had to restore integrity with. And it was within that that I realized there was a lot of growth here. There is a lot of growth in those really uncomfortable conversations. You know, whether it's your partner, your loved one, family members, close friends, if this. There's an area in your life you'll feel like you're. You're out of alignment and lacking integrity. And your relationships are coming at a cost. It's up to you to take responsibility for that and to show up and just fucking barrel and be like, hey, I'm. I'm being out of alignment here. I would like to acknowledge the fact that I could be doing better and I'm letting you down, letting multiple people down. So to be able to stand up and, and have a difficult conversation does amazing things for your inner growth, but also does tremendous things with the growth of relationships. So I reflected on, okay, where do I need to have some uncomfortable conversations? And I actually realized that there was a shit ton of growth in that and actually, you know, more growth in within that than any plant medicine journey, any book, or any coach just standing up and go, hey, I'm not going to own that. This is where I'm going wrong and this is how I'm going to improve this. And having a heart to heart conversation with someone in person, not on the phone and not via text. So being courageous and just having those uncomfortable conversations will get you to that next stage in your journey. Not shying away from speaking your truth, you know, so crucial. So that was such a, such a big lesson that I've had over the last couple of weeks and I wanted to share that the next one is back into sort of this lesson that's culminated with the new space that we've moved into and manifesting things. Because how this place showed up was quite, I won't say miraculous or miracle because I just believe when you do have faith and trust that there is something greater than yourself guiding you along this journey. Miracles become an everyday thing if you look out for them. Well, essentially what happened was we were looking for a place and out here in Perth, the rent market right now is nuts. So we're searching for weeks trying to find a, find a place to move into and just having no luck going to viewings, applying for places and just not getting anywhere. And when I first arrived back in Perth, the start of 2020 last year, coming back from Canada, there was this one specific place that I had said and declared I want to live there at some point in my life. Like I want to be live in one of those apartments. And it was an apartment just back from my favorite beach out here in Western Australia, Leighton beach, if those are familiar with it. It's a beautiful spot. And I declared, I was like, I really want to live in that one of those apartments one day. Fast forward a year later, you know, we're looking for a place now, start to run out of options. We're getting real frustrated and you know, just so happened that one day one of these apartments showed up on the, on the real estate listing. So we applied, we went for a viewing, I was like, this has to be it, this is the alignment. I declared this, this has got to be the place. This is it. We applied and I was set certain that we're going to get it. And the next day we found out we didn't get it. And initially, initially in the past I would have got thrown back into, I guess, frustration that I didn't get the thing that I wanted, scarcity, by saying, hey, I need to get a place or I need to, we need to find something else. Projecting out the want, projecting out the neediness, projecting out the lack. But when we didn't get the place this time, because I've been in this situation before where the thing that I wanted didn't manifest the way I expected it to. It gave me an opportunity to go back inward and be in the energy field of, hey, I already had it. We don't need that. I already have the freedom, the joy, the abundance, the gratitude, the passion inside of me. I'm already living from this place. I don't need anything external to give me any more than what I already have. So it gave me an opportunity to check back in with that energy field, breathe, connect. Okay, there's something better coming, clearly. And what happened was the next day, something popped up on Facebook Marketplace. My girlfriend messaged the owner. It was fully furnished. It can move in right away. We viewed it that evening and we got accepted the next day. Now, whether you're into personal development or not, I don't care. That was, to me, was such a phenomenal, profound reminder that the things you want to manifest, other things you want to create, are coming to you in ways that you can't see. If you think you know how it's going to happen, that's not how it's going to happen, because that's not how life works. Life gets created when we live in the present moment and we're living on the edge of the unknown. And when we live from that place, all of a sudden we've surrendered fully to life, just like taking us to where we need to go with complete faith and trust. And that was the big lesson I wanted to share from that, was that when you have unwavering faith and trust that you're being guided by something far greater than the mind, all of a sudden you have the courage to take scary action by saying, hey, I'm going to. I want to live in this place. And I'm prepared to. I'm prepared to spend. Spend a little bit more, because I know that's going to bring me into a higher level of alignment or a higher level of expansion. Trusting that, hey, this feels good in my body, or when something shows up, I'm just going to trust that feeling. Having faith and trust that where life is pulling you is exactly where you need to go. And not trying to figure things out, trust that what you want, you already have in the form of an energy. And when you. When you acknowledge and live from that place, life will take care of you. You'll just keep getting reasons. Life will keep giving you reasons to be like, hey, I got this. Trust me, I got you. The universe has your back. So that was a big lesson I wanted to share. The next one I want to share is now that we've kind of like retracted out here in Perth, we've all kind of been forced to slow down again. Whether you're somewhere in the world, we've been slowed down for a while. It's such a really big opportunity, this, I believe, to go inward again and to be. Whether in ring lockdown or not. I truly believe this is the time to remove distractions. I've been big on adding lots of things to my routines, adding things to support me and being more, you know, present, focused, aligned. But a lot of the times it's not actually adding things, it's taking things away. So I would look and this is what I've done. I've looked at the areas in my life where I've thought, what do I need to remove from my life right now so that I can be more presence, so that I can be a larger capacity, you know. And I call this sharpening the sword. It's like sharpening the ax. Your sword is your presence, right when you're, when you're present, it's like you've got this saw that you're cutting through life like the samurai. But what we're in our minds, we're just like, we're not there, well, weak, you know, we're unconscious. Consciousness, presence is the sword. So what are the things that you can add to your life to sharpen the sword? Meditation, qigong, yoga, time in nature. But more importantly, what are the things that are blunting your sword? What are the things that are in your life that are blunting, like your sharpness, your presence, your focus. Social media, tv, gossiping, reading stuff that's just, just distracting you from what's important, which is this moment. So what do I need to remove from my life so that I can be more present, focused and hold more energy in my body? So that was, that's a big lesson. I'm reflecting on this week going forward and also over the last couple of weeks, just monitoring my phone usage and how much I'm checking that and trying to figure out how I can be better in alignment, better in my body. There's a final lesson I want to share. This one is about doing the trauma work. So over the weekend I did a breath work. I went breathed, I did a deep shamanic breath work, which is an hour long breathe, which is deep process. That's like, I would say that's like going into a plant medicine ceremony when you do an extended breathe like that it is like taking plant medicine, I would say. I've sat with the toe, the 5 Meo DMT twice now. These extended breath works are just as potent and just as powerful. And what I got from this breathwork experience on Saturday was I had the realization that I had done. I've done my trauma work. There's no more trauma down there that needs to be, like, liberated or expressed from my body. It's all being done. And what I took from my journey was that because this trauma works, being done, I'm now able to tap into greater feelings of wholeness, gratitude, love, abundance, and just, you know, life satisfaction, life energy, that it's an indicator to me, and if you're in this position as well, this is the indicator that it's time to take relentless action, relentless action in the direction that life's trying to pull you, you know? So if you've been holding back, sharing something on social media, if you've been holding back from starting that business, if you're holding back from having that conversation or putting your truth out to the world, now is the time to take ferocious action. And I'm saying this because if you've done your trauma work, there's no unconscious blocks that are stopping you that you need to look at like you. You're clear, the vessel is clear. Now go take action. Do that thing. Do that thing that scares you and just like, keep putting it out there. Because ultimately when you take that action, you just step into a new level and what happens is the people around you get to thrive of that. The people around you get to benefit from you taking the action and expanding. So I'm reflecting on the areas in my life where I want to take more action, expand because the work on the inside has been done. And I'm not to say there's no more work to do. There probably will be more stuff to process. But I'm saying once you've processed your, your, your stuff, your emotional blocks, then go out and take the action, right? But if you're taking the action from a place of fear, scarcity, lack and doubt, that's the wrong kind of action, that the best action then is to go in. Okay, I hope that's making sense. Once the works done, take the external action from the place of passion, love, abundance, gratitude to just share. Put your truth out there. It's time. So they're my main lessons, guys, and I'm glad I got to tick them off, and I'm glad I got to express them, put them out to the world, because I Feel one of my, one of my missions here is to share, is to express, to help other people out in their journey, through their process. Because at the end of the day, we're all humans. We're all going through the same stuff, right? We're all kind of going through our own internal battles and trying to figure out the internal game so that we can just surrender and trust the external game. So there's a few things I want to share coming up over the next couple of weeks. I'm going to be launching a program around how to build a stronger relationship with yourself. And I'm going to be covering in that program some of the key pillars that I've pulled out along my journey and along the last couple years of. Couple of years of coaching around the self connection, right? How to, how to live in integrity and alignment with yourself, being self awareness, self responsibility, self trust, self discipline, self accountability and self love. So there were the main areas that I'm going to be covering in this program. If you feel like, you know, you want to learn more about that and you want to get information, for those who have already reached out to me in regards to that, I'll be sending you information very, very shortly. But if you want more information about that and you feel like 2021 is the time to do the action like I just shared, just send me a message on Instagram DM me and I'll share more information about the program and how that's going to look. But I just feel called that. This is the work, you know, like strengthening and solidifying that relationship with yourself is what's going to give you. It's going to give you the energy to level up in all areas. All right. And if you're in lockdown, thanks, Dan. If you're in lockdown, if you're at home, if you can't do a lot of things you used to do or this is the time to strengthen the you connection, build that solid foundation on the inside. Because once that comes, once that relationship's there, it's like, hey, what do you want to create then? What do you want to serve? Like, what's the impact you want to have? And that's, that's the work we've all been called to do. So more information about that's going to be coming out. I'm going to be sharing a lot more videos on YouTube around some things that I feel inspired to share about because like I said before, there's going to be a shit ton of action coming out of my end in terms of stuff that I want to share, so stay tuned. I'm sharing stuff on YouTube, got the program coming out and lots more podcasts to come too. So these lives will be shared on the podcast if you want to go back and re listen to them. Other than that, guys, if there's anything you learned from today's live or there's something you want to connect with me on, send me a dm. I would love to hear. If there's like an insight you had from today's conversation of what I've just shared, send me a message and I'd love to hear from you. Otherwise I'll keep more of these coming and I'll keep sharing the insights. But you're doing amazing. For those in Perth, get through these next five days in lockdown. Back to the working out from home. Peace out guys. Love you. You're amazing and we'll be in touch. Have a good week. Hey there we have it guys. Thanks so much for listening to this episode and yeah, look if you made it this far, cool. 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