SSP 090: Weekly Lesson - Finding Your Unique Path

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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Gonna share some insights, some lessons that I've had over the last couple of weeks. I'm back home in Perth. I spent, I spent all of last week on the east coast of Australia in Queensland, visiting some family. And I wanted to come on here and share some insights that I've had over the last couple of weeks because it's been interesting to see how quickly life can change the direction and change the flow that we think we're heading. And then all of a sudden we can shift very quickly and things change. And what I've taken from those changes is some, like, really key insights that I'm now reintegrating and reapplying to this journey that I'm on that I'm going to share with you guys. And so to give you A bit of background. I'll share what was going on in my world a couple of weeks ago now. I've been posting a lot of content. I just launched a new program around building a stronger relationship with yourself. And as I chose my launch date for that program, which was last week, you know, I was creating a bunch of content leading up to that date and in February. And I got a call one afternoon from my mum. And my mum said to me, she said, hey, you know, granddad out in Queensland, he's just been diagnosed with stage four cancer. He's starting chemo in a couple of weeks. Mum said she's heading out there, she's going on a trip. And this news, like, was a tough one because, you know, obviously, like, all family, like all grandparents, you know, I love him and he's such a unique character. And here I was decided that I was gonna launch this program and I was in such a big, good flow out here with my work. And I'm in my own space and heart was like, straight away, it's time to go out east. It's time to book. So the next day I booked my plane ticket to fly out to Queensland to go spend some time with my family and my granddad. And what I noticed as I flew out there and, you know, I was in. I was in such a creative flow with my coaching and my content that I noticed this, like, this little part of me on the inside when I arrived in the Queensland wanting to be in still work mode, but then the part of me that wanted to be in family mode and like, chill out for a little bit. And what I was really clear on throughout all of that is, number one, surrendering and just like letting go sometimes, of needing to feel like we're always going to be creating and doing things. And the other thing that I also noticed along that time was in my life, in my journey, I go through periods of expansion and contraction. It was an observation that I made just while reflecting on, hey, I'm in a really expansive phase right now. And I've actually noticed now through this is the second year I've been in business, that my expansion phases happened around December through to March. And if you start to reflect on your own journey, your own life and your own phases that you go through, you'll notice that there's at different times in the year, you go through periods of expansion, like the seasons, like in summer weeks. Summer's expansive. Everything's alive and growing. And then in winter, things start to contract. But I've noticed as humans we go through these little phases as well. They may be lined up with the seasons, they may not be. But I just noticed I'm going through an expansive phase right now. So as I took off over to Queensland to be with family, it was sort of like this, this resistance that was created initially when I was in this expansion, but life was pulling me to slow down, to be more present. And while I was out there on the Sunshine coast, it's a beautiful part of the world. If you haven't been in the Sunshine coast in Queensland, it's a. It's. It's just magical. And I got to immerse back in nature and I got to experience because the east coast of Queensland is more. It's more tropical, so they get more rain. Nature is a lot more vibrant and alive. I got to feel this, like, saturation in nature. And I've noticed in myself along this journey, then this path that I've been on, that a lot of it's about sensitizing myself to life. And that's always my invitation to you guys on this journey is sensitizing, become more sensitive, feel more, connect more. Titled today's live, finding your unique path. I'm going to share just why I titled that in a second. But as I'm becoming more sensitive to life now, I noticed very quickly while I was out on the Sunshine coast how much more connected I felt with nature and the impact nature has on. On our energy and on our being because we are a part of nature, right? It's very easy to forget that, like, we are actually interconnected with nature. Nature operates through us and with us. So as I got out there on the coast, I was like, wow, I feel so coherent. I feel so aligned with this, this flow. And it was very peaceful. And what I took from that was our number one priority is to stay connected with that. Life will actually take you where you need to go when you stay in alignment with nature's calling, nature's pull. And I'm going to share a little story with you around. You know, one of the times when this nature's guidance actually took me exactly where I needed to go. And this was about three years ago when I quit my corporate job. I decided, you know, I decided for a while that I was going to spend some time following my heart. I decided I wanted to leave my corporate job. I had no idea what I was going to do, no idea what I was gonna do for money. But I knew it was time to leave and follow my calling, follow nature and just travel to Canada. Travel to Toronto to be with my girlfriend. I was like, I'm ready for a change. Take me out there. Bought a, bought a one way ticket, flew out to Canada, quit my corporate job. I'm following this calling, I'm following this feeling in my heart. From now on, I follow my heart. And here I was at my girlfriend's family home waiting to be like, okay, I'm out here, you know, two weeks has gone by, three weeks have gone by. I can't be on holiday fore. I got to start looking for work. I've got to start making some money. My savings is running out. And the week started ticking by and I was like, hey, shit, what am I going to do for work? I don't know what to do. Should I work at a gym? Should I go work at a studio? Should I go get another accounting job? I was like, no, I can't get another accounting job. I came out here to follow my passion, my calling, my bliss. And it got to the point where I started to get quite anxious about this. It goes at the point where I started to doubt this. This pull the guidance, okay? And this is something that we all go through. We always, we all start to doubt things, we all start to slip into our heads and try and figure things out and go, we should go this way, we should make more money, we should take that job. We should do things that aren't in our highest alignment because we start to doubt our connection. And this is what started happening to me. I started to doubt my connection. I started to feel resistance. I was like, I started to feel nerves, anxiousness. And what that actually was was an older part of me that was trying to come up and out. It was, it was the old me that was trying to leave. So it was through me actually taking the decision to take this, follow this calling that actually brought up more of the old Jordan that was trying to be purged and integrated. So it's actually a beautiful thing when you start to go through feelings of anxiousness or doubt or resistance or heaviness or fear or loss. It's the old you coming up and now and it's trying to leave. So what happened to me was as that started to happen was because I'd already established or I knew nature was such a powerful force in bringing me back home and in supporting me and moving in that direction. There was this beautiful forest that I would often go and spend time with at the back of my girlfriend's house. Beautiful forest, trees. And it was fall and the leaves were starting to change colors. And I remember one day in particular feeling so anxious and just, like, heavy and doubting everything. I don't have a job. What am I gonna do? I was like, I'm going out into the forest. Walked out into the forest and didn't bring my phone. I just found a nice log. I sat down this log, and I just started listening to the sound of the wind blowing and the leaves. I started to feel the wind on my face. I started to smell the freshness of the air. And I sat on that log for about an hour, just listening, feeling, getting connected with nature. And I remember so distinctly the feeling of this anxiousness leaving my body, the heaviness that just started to leave. And when I returned back into the house, I felt so much lighter, I felt so much freer. And the next day, what showed up was the dream job, the perfect job for me. This job was at a healing studio. He was using frequency technology. The company was called Soul7. It was based in downtown Toronto. And this job showed up on an ad, and I applied for that ad. And just so happened that I landed that job two weeks later. And that sparked the biggest transformation, the biggest shift in the next level of my journey. Now, going back to the nature component, when the doubt was there, the anxiousness there, the fears were there. Nature will bring you back home. It will bring you back home to wherever it is you need to be, whatever it is that you need to experience. And oftentimes, we just need to be willing to sit for long enough in that energy, in the energy of nature. Now, I shared a video the other day on TikTok, and it was about the frequency that nature has. It's actually called the Schumann resonance. It vibrates at 7.83 Hz. It's the frequency of the earth. That frequency puts us into coherence. It naturally calms our mind. It puts us back into our heart. So if we can stay in that place of coherence, if we can stay in the place of flow, of connection, we don't have to worry about what am I going to do next. We don't have to worry about how am I going to generate money. You'll know where the next decision comes. You'll know life will take you where you need to go. Right? This is what I experienced back being out in nature on the East Coast. It allowed me to rediscover the coherence, the connection, and that's what I've titled today's life. Find your unique path. Because what happens to me and most other coaches or most People spend time on social media is you jump on here and you hear everyone else talk about how to live life or how they live their life. That's. That's been successful for them. And I watch all these big influences and I'm trying to learn. I'm getting coached by people and I'm like, okay, cool. That works for them. That works for them. And I'm realizing that what works for one person may not work for another person. What works for someone who makes a million dollars might not work for you to make your million dollars. At the end of the day, we're all on a journey to try and find our unique path. What I've uncovered is that your unique path is not found in a book, it's not found in online course, it's not found in a seminar, and it's not found on YouTube. Your unique path is found when you spend time undisturbed in nature, when you spend time connecting with yourself, when you spend time understanding what is your nature. My nature is different to yours, but at the source with emanating from the same source. So understanding how is nature emanating through me and what is the path and direct and life wants me to take. The more I disconnect from other people's opinions, other people's ways of living. Yes, I take every books, Yes, I take in information. I go, okay, that's it. Interesting. Cool. I'll take that on board. I'm. We're forming our own unique way of living that is unique to you. And when we find this unique way, it's often what happens is people will look at you and be like, oh, fuck, how did you, how did you figure that out? Oh, I need to learn from you. I spend time with you. It's like my unique way or someone else's unique way is ultimately should be showing you back inside, back to you, back to your unique way. And that's the purpose of coaching. That's why I coach is because I'm not coaching you to live the way I live. It's coaching someone back into how do we figure out what your unique way is? Because it's going to be different to me now, for me personally, I've noticed in my journey, I've gone from like, left to right brain, right, science to spirituality. I've spun like so fully onto both sides of that that I'm carving out my unique way somewhere in the middle where I bring signs and spirituality. I love both realms. I love, like, sitting out in stillness and quietening my mind and not having to Think for long periods. But at the same time, I love, like learning about new things that might not be you. Maybe you just love just being in nature and being fully free, a free spirit and being in flow with life. Cool. You don't need to read a lot of books to do that. Maybe you're an artist, you just need inspiration. Or maybe you love science, you love learning, maybe you love learning stuff, taking courses, and that's fine. Finding your unique way is really the key to unlocking your. Your highest expression, your highest calling. It's not in a book. It's really not the book. The book of the courses. The coaches should give you the inspiration or the awareness to be able to go back out and be like, okay, I'm going to unplug from this for a little bit and just sit and percolate or saturate in nature. Saturate my own beingness, in my own aliveness. And what comes through that is something so unique, something so special and so profound that it's unique to you, that other people feel it and go, holy shit, that's. That's life. That's what I want. That's what we all want. We're all chasing a connection with ourselves. That's all it is. And what I realized when I come home now that I'm back home in Perth, is I feel my best when I carve out enough time in my day to nurture this connection. For me personally, the mornings are such a crucial time because I like to get up early. I don't like to check my phone for the first two to three hours. I like to go outside and be in nature. I like to move my body, I like to breathe, I like to meditate. And by the time I flick my phone off airplane mode, I'm so connected with life that I can coach, that I can serve, that I can create. If I don't do those things, I'm coming from mind, I'm coming from like, there's something I need to get this, I need to make money, I need to do this. I got to figure it out. When I had a my own way, it's like, there's nothing to figure out. This is just. I just want to do this because I love doing it. This is fun. I enjoy life. If you're not enjoying your process, if you're not enjoying what you create, it's because you're trying to figure it out. You haven't spent enough time actually in your own beingness, disconnecting from the external and just being with the Emotions that are already available to you, everything you want, it's already there. It's just tapping into it. Once that that flow is tapped into, life works with you. You work, you kind of co create, you work in synergy with life and everything can happen on its own accord. One of my biggest challenges, rushing, like one of my biggest challenges is like, I'm impatient, I want things now. I want to like, create and achieve all this big, these big goals now. And I sometimes catch myself, like, rushing, trying to get to the next stage. Let's scale the business and do this, let's create that. But like, life has its own timeline. You weren't meant to rush through this stage. You're at. What if right now this chapter was preparing you and it was slowing you down, or Covid or lockdown was slowing you down enough to prepare you for whatever was on the other side of this, of this chapter. And what if you weren't meant to rush through this? What if you were meant to go at the pace of life? And the pace of life was like, hey, we just got to experience this with a little bit now because it's giving you lessons. There's something that's coming up and through, so trusting that life has its own timeline and the mind will slip in and want to create a timeline. But hey, no, we need to get this done by that time or I should be further along in my journey. I should be, I should have a purpose by now. I should be making this much money by now. That's all a lot of shit. Wherever you are right now is absolutely perfect. And whatever we're experiencing right now is absolutely perfect. Whatever your unique path is, it's absolutely perfect. And the more we can bring acceptance and love and joy and appreciation and gratitude to that, all of a sudden we can just like, drop back into the flow and be like, hey, this is where I'm at. It's cool, it's perfect, man. It's all good. My life is good. We can create, we can have big goals, we can have big aspirations. But the timeline to which we achieve those goals is usually not based on us. If you're living, if you're facing and living and being and prioritizing being, life takes care of the timeline. But what happens is we set big goals and our mind goes. That's what, that's where we got to go. That's what I got to achieve. And it has to be done by this day. And what happens is that that mind will take us away from what our heart truly wants. Because we'll be so fucking dialed in on what we want to achieve. So the fine line here is cool, create the goals. But can you move? Continue to move in the direction of where your heart is calling you. Mind and heart synced up, brain and heart coherence. When that happens, you flow in a direction towards your goals. When the coherence is broken, your mind starts going one way, but your heart wants you to go another way. And the gap is the pain gap. The longer you start to ignore your body and go with what your mind wants, the longer you do that, the greater the pain that you're going to have to overcome to realign, to realign. So that's why every single day, it's like realigned. Your mind at heart, create some coherence, slow the mind down and connect back with gratitude. And you can do this practice, like, quite simply, I do it. I do it every single day. And. And the way I do it is like, often for about five minutes, or sometimes at the end of my meditations or when I'm outside, or after I've done some breath work or whenever, just breathe into your heart. And if there is some coherence in your brain, meaning you've slowed your brain down enough where you're not thinking all the time, you can start to actually feel into the coherence of your heartbeats. When you feel into that, there's actually a rhythm, there's a rhythm that gets created. That rhythm is actually the electromagnetic field that's been created around your body. The more coherent that rhythm, the larger the field, the larger the frequency, the larger the vibration that you put out to the world. So every single day, connect with your rhythm. This rhythm is your nature. This is the heartbeat of nature. This is this same. The same thing that beats your heart is the same thing that put leaves on the trees, that grows the grass that causes the sun to rise and set every single day. Spend time connecting with the awareness that beats your heart. The more you can sync up with that, the more you can feel that. And you will actually feel it. You'll feel your heartbeat. And when you're in coherence, it's sort of like you enter this, like, vertical oneness where everything is so blissful. Every single beat just sends waves of gratitude around you, waves of wholeness and oneness. When you tap into that frequency, when you can tap into that level of vibration of life, you get up out of your meditation going, fucking, yo, we made it. How good is this? How good is this? And that's when magic Starts happening. That's when if you run a business, you get calls, people contact you, clients start showing up. It's like life is trying to operate with you. You know, if there's something you're trying to manifest, cool. Manifest the feeling on the inside first before you see the thing on the external show up. This is something that I've been talking about since day one, but I just wanted to really share that because it was a big lesson I had and I'm just continuing to have as I return back to Perth and rediscover my path. My path is always going to be in your path to is interlinked with nature. It's interlinked with what nature wants to express through you. What does nature want to express through me? How is my unique part? What does my unique path look like? Can nature take me on this path? Take me on this journey? Just an element of trust, guys. If you haven't spent enough time in nature and with yourself lately, I hope this can be an amazing reminder for you. So thank you so much for joining me on here as always. You know, if you want more information about this, I hosted a workshop a couple of weeks ago about how to build a stronger relationship with yourself. If you didn't see that, if you missed it, hit me up, I'll send you the replay. Also, just send me a dm. If there's an insight or something you got from today's live that you want to just anchor in, send me a dm. Love to hear from you. So, guys, I'm gonna be pumping out more of these lives. If you want more lives, just tell me, tell me. I need some, like, feedback. I need some feedback. If you are getting value from them, tell me and I'll keep pumping out lives because I love, I love doing this stuff. This is, this is the reason why I do what I do. So thank you so much everyone who joined me on here. If you're listening afterwards, I hope you have an amazing day. I got plenty more to come. 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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