Enchanted Beast Podcast

Welcome to Season 5 of Enchanted BEAST Podcast! This season is all about LIVING FOR JOY.

In this episode, Ella Shawn introduces the first of 12 ways to encourage women to let go of what's no longer serving them and highest good, while learning to surrender to the divine goddess energy, or their Enchanted BEAST, residing inside of them.

SEGMENT ONE: WE ATTRACT WHAT WE ARE/REFLECTION IS A TWO-WAY MIRROR

• When your past calls, let it go to voicemail
• The Law of Reflection
• Get to know yourself
• The Law of Attraction

SEGMENT TWO: YOU CAN'T LET GO AND SURRENDER IF YOU CAN'T DETACH

• Word play
• The Law of Conscious Detachment 
• Accept it and move on
• Tap into your power

SEGMENT THREE: THE WRAP UP

• Detach 
• Let Go
• Surrender To
• Reflect
• Get to Know Yourself
• Accept and Love
• Attract
• Practice the Law of Gratitude 

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In this episode, Ella continues the discussion of escaping the decadent lifestyle trap and designing your most enchanting life using the seven principles of design and the Universal Laws.

Thank you for tuning in to Enchanted BEAST Podcast, season 4, episode 7 . In this episode; Hmmm, I think somebody’s trying to set me up, Ella talks about the systematic implementation of the ”decadent lifestyle trap” and how to work it to your advantage to live your most enchanted life.

Key Words

•Decadent

•Lifestyle

•Trap

•Design

•Luxurious

•Active

•Passive

Key Point

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•Factors determining lifestyle

•Debunking the decadence myth

•Design principles of a lifestyle trap

KEY POINTS

• Reasons Character Thorns Form
• Foundational Beliefs About Change (Trauma)
• Thorns Are Not FLAWS or FAILINGS
• Thorns are Functional Formations
• Treat Thorns with Love and Compassion
• Every Living Being has Thorns
• Every Living Being has and will Continue Experiencing Change
• Living as Love and Compassion

My favorite part about being a writer is discovering the arc--trajectory of growth--of my characters. It's not unlike getting to know a new friend or love interest. We all have aspects of our personality that are greatly affected by the various facets of what makes up our character--the set of learned behavior patterns that inform how we interact and engage with ourselves and other. Instead of looking at the parts of ourselves and others' character we don't vibe with, I'm attempting to be less of pain in the BUTT about the "thorns" we carry and more of an Enchanted BEAST. 

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In this episode, Ella concludes the 3-part series, How Being Overly Humble is Detrimental to Your Soul's Purpose. 

Key Points

“ALICE
She drank from a bottle called DRINK ME
And she grew so tall,
She ate from a plate called TASTE ME
And down she shrank so small.
And so she changed, while other folks
Never tried nothin' at all.” 
― Shel Silverstein, Where the Sidewalk Ends

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What the hell was in that damn drink?

DEFENSIVENESS—the need to defend or protect against.

REACTIONARY—opposing social reform; traditionalist, rightest

INTORVERSION—being wholly interested in one’s own mental life

NEUROTIC—filled with anxiety, nervousness, phobias, fear and visceral disturbances

KINDERHEARTED—having a soft heart; empathetic and benevolent

MANIPULATIVE—using what is weakest to one’s advantage; taking advantage of

ENTITLEMENT—the belief in one being deserving of special treatment; gifts

GREED—wanting more than is needed; what is worked for

RAGE—unadulterated anger and consuming wrath

OBSTINENCE-- sticking to an opinion or purpose in spite of reason, or persuasion

WILLFULLNESS—of an immoral act of omission; intentional; deliberate

TEMPTATION—the desire to do something wrong or unwise

ALIENATION—the experience of being isolated from one’s group or activity

LAZINESS—unwillingness to work or use energy; a state of idleness

LONLINESS—abandonment, sadness because of lack of friends

What the hell's been happening?

Digital—spending too much time on social media

Emotional—taking on the emotional stress of others

Spiritual—neglecting my own practices

Timidity—moving in fear and acting small

Reluctance—overthinking things and not acting

Anger—fear of failure, ridicule and abandonment

Carelessness—inattention to what’s happening with me

Tiredness—physical fatigue based in doing too much

Intimacy Drought—lack of true relationship with self

Overwhelmed—focused on what I can’t control

Negativity—environment saturated with dense e-motion

Statis Quo—acceptance of what always is

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What have I been feeding my Enchanted BEAST?

Threatening—causing anxiety

Altering—change; different

Suspicious—questioning; mistrust

Tantalizing—interested; alluring

Enigmatic—confusing; charmed

Mimicking—looks good for

Enthralling—magnetic; pulling

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What is it with entitlement and people believing they deserve some kind of special treatment simply because they weren't caught in a condom or swallowed? This episode, Ella sets out to burst as many entitled bubbles as possible with a harsh look at just how dangerous being entitled is when trying to be about the business of your higher purpose.

Topics Covered:

• Entitlement
• Unrealistic Expectations
• Disappointment
• Displeasure and/or Annoyance
• Lowered Expectations

Enchanted Wisdom: "The only way we're going to get to where our soul needs us to be is to get through where we are." ~Ella Shawn

In this episode, Ella Shawn introduces the first of a three part series on how being too humble is more detrimental to living your purpose than being prideful. 

Key Points:

• Want-a deficiency or failing
• Need-cannot be removed; innate
• WE WANT BECAUSE WE LACK A TRUE SENSE OF SELF AND PURPOS
• We want from the part of us which is lacking
• Never satisfied with itself because it doesn’t even know how to recognize itself without having someone, thing, place… object to compare itself to
• Disengage ego, engage higher self and recognize you have what you need

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Part 2 of Not all who wander are lost. Ella Shawn takes you further down the rabbit hole in this episode. You'll get pointers on:

• Recognizing the difference between opportunities and trouble
• How to be open and prepared to avail opportunities as they are presented, discovered, or created
• How to use your B.E.L.I.E.F. like a magic wand

Visualize Your Higher Self and Start Showing Up as Her!

In this episode, Ella explores the need to shake some things up in her life by using the literary element of implementing a plot twist. Is a plot twist what you need in your life to get you moving in the right direction again?

In this episode, Ella shares her take on the differences between saying "I'm sorry" and "I apologize" and how understanding those differences can lead to more #intimate communication between #women and #men in their #relationships.

KEY POINTS OF INTEREST

• When a person says, they are simply expressing how they feel about a situation.
• An apology isn’t filled with regret and/or remorse; although it may be, in general, it’s a formal admittance of a wrong we’ve done.
• In a psychological study, it was found that men and women apologize for about 81% of the time when they feel they’ve done something offensive or wrong.
• EVERYONE HAS BLIND SPOTS. 

[Nanny]: "Honey, de white man is de ruler of everything as fur as Ah been able tuh find out. Maybe it’s some place way off in de ocean where de black man is in power, but we don’t know nothin’ but what we see. So de white man throw down de load and tell de nigger man tuh pick it up. He pick it up because he have to, but he don’t tote it. He hand it to his womenfolks. De nigger woman is de mule uh de world so fur as Ah can see.“ There Eyes Were Watching God. ZNH

• Women apologize from a place of empathy and responsibility 
• Men apologize from a place of self-justification and preservation
• Focus—take responsibility for personal actions without causing or feeling guilt
• Facts—Event, item of information, or state of affairs existing, observed, or known to have happened, and which is confirmed or validated to such an extent that it is considered 'reality.’ BusinessDictionary.com
• Fight: in reality, you both want the same outcome
• Fair—marked by impartiality and honesty: free from self-interest, prejudice, or favoritism

RESOURCES 

This episode is one of three parts where Ella discusses the importance of listening to what the mind wants you to #kNOw about sex.  She explains the Sexual Response Cycle, negative mind chatter, and how the mind and physical body work together to protect the emotional and spiritual bodies.

*** WARNING ***

This episode does contain adult content and language. You may want to listen with earbuds if children under the age of 18 will be present.

Key Points:

• Sexual Response Cycle--the sequence of physical and emotional changes that occur as a person becomes sexually aroused
• Four phases of the SRC--Excitement. Plateau. Orgasm. Resolution.
• Adrenaline causes an increase in heart rate, blood pressure, and works by causing less important blood vessels to constrict and increasing blood flow to larger muscles
• Dopamine is responsible for reward-driven behavior and pleasure-seeking. 
• Oxytocin is a hormone directly linked to human bonding and increasing trust and loyalty.
• Marie Geonet and colleagues recently concluded that negative thoughts play a key role in women’s sexual dysfunction: They distract women from erotic stimulation, produce anxiety and guilt, and diminish sexual arousal and pleasure. 
• Negative mind chatter is the number reason NET destroys the plateau phase and obliterates the ability for a woman to reach the orgasm phase.

Resources & Further Reading:

In this episode, Ella explores the destructive nature of envy and imitation.  She takes an transcendental/existential approach to bread down the psychological phenomenon.  Don't worry, it's Ella and she makes it all make sense.  This podcast runs a little long, but it's so worth it to listen to it till the end.

Further Reading

• Self Reliance and other Essays Ralph Waldo Emerson
• How to Kill Creativity Harvard Business Review 
• With whom do we compare Psychology Today
• The psychology of envy Psychology Today
• The Science behind gratitude happify.com

Follow Me:

  Why it took two weeks to get to this level

1. I wasn’t ready to accept the message of elevation.
2. Allowed everything around me to dictate how my time was used
3. Relinquished my right to be in my own sacred space

Limitations to Elevations

• Traditional religious institutions
• Racial identification 
• Gender/Sex
• Socio-Economics
• Educational level
• Mental, Physical, Emotional disabilities

Limitations Recap

• We give permission to circumstances to set limits on our lives
• We accept other people’s perceptions of our limitations as true facts.
• Limitations are either self-imposed, are self-actualized
• We create the greatest limits on ourselves with our minds
• Everything you ever wanted is on the other side of limitations
• Whatever you thought was limiting you, was simply an invitation to look deeper inside yourself

Limitations invite you to become more self-aware!

Self-Awareness = Self-Control

We become honest experts of our intimate truths, standards, and desires; a practice of consideration

Practice of Consideration: Respect. Mindfulness. Forbearance.

Level 4: change -is defined as alteration, modification, transformation. It can also be defined as a substitute , a switch, or to transmute. Some other words associated with the word change are vary , revolutionize, amend, and shift.

Key Points:

• 1: transformation- (METAMORPHOSIS) change of physical form, structure, or substance especially by supernatural means. 
• 2: transmute- to change or alter in form, appearance, or nature and especially to a higher form
• 3: shift- to assume responsibility for restoration; a reestablishment; a return to

CHANGE AS TRANSFORMATION

• Structural Change is a deep reaching change that alters the way authority, capital, information, and responsibility flows in an [society] 
• Our divine resource is our enchanted beast. 

CHANGE AS TRANSMUTATION

• You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself. Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence. ― Alan W. Watts (The Book)
• That is the highest self , the higher self that is 100% eternal, all knowing, unconditionally loving , and authentic in always. The higher self is the divine aspect of who we are designed to be. 

CHANGE AS A SHIFT

• We are responsible , we take responsibility for , we are being held accountable by the universe to reestablish, to restore, to return to a time when God was a woman.
• Women are creatures of balance , we are not here to exert our authority, we are here to create balance. 

You can't fight what you don't understand. Ella Shawn is moving on up to level 2 in her elevation series. On this level, she shares how to use Universal Law to elevated information from the collective unconscious to the collective consciousness through seeking and gaining understanding of self and others.

Key Points:

• Understanding is friendly or harmonious relationship; an agreement of opinion or feeling: adjustment of differences.
• New tools for the artist tool box

1. The Law of Correspondence--harmony, agreement, and correspondence between physical, mental and spiritual realms. Know thyself and thou shall know all the gods and mysteries of the universe.
2. The Law of Polarity--everything has an opposite.
3. The Law of Vibration--everything moves, nothing rest.

• Openness--tendency to appreciate new art, ideas, values, feelings, and behaviors
• Conscientiousness--tendency to be careful, on time for appointment, follow rules, and be hardworking.
• Extroversion--tendency to be talkative, sociable, enjoy other people, have a dominant style.
• Agreeableness--tendency to agree and go along with others rather than to assert one's own opinion or choices.
• Neuroticism--tendency to experience [lower frequency] emotions such as: anger, worry, sadness, interpersonal sensitivity.

Listening is an art that requires attentiveness/talent, spirit/ego, and others/self. Most people don't listen with the intent to understand, most listen with the intent to reply and be heard. Ella jumps into the first part of the 5-part series on creating a collective consciousness throughout humanity.

Key Points:

• Listening is an art form

Sacrifices/Reward

• attentiveness/talent
• spirit (Enchanted Beasts)/ego
• others (collective consciousness)/self (personal consciousness)

Listening Artist Tool Box--tools used to create Pockets of Order ™

• Patience-keeps you from monopolizing the conversation
• Discernment-keeps you from judging and/or projecting
• Respect-keeps you in the moment, attentive and alert
• Third-Eye-allows you hear and understand what's not being said

Get rid of all those TO-DO Lists, they won't make you more productive or successful! Ella shares how she transitioned from living as a Human DOing to a Spiritual BEing having human experiences.

Important Points/Resources

Just because I check something off my To-Do list, doesn't mean I've accomplished anything.

• How am I spending my time?  
• Do I value my time?  
• Is my time spent DOing what's expected, or BEing who I want to be?

There are 24-hours in a day; who says I have to eat breakfast in the morning?

• Is my day structured according to my body's natural rhythm? 
• Am I optimizing my day based on how my body feels and what it needs?

I am not a Human DOing. I am a Human BEing... for now.

Imagine your life without the limitations of impossibility.  Now, visualize the necessary steps you need to take to get there. Ella takes you on the journey of remembering the life you've always wanted and then she tells you how to get there.

Understanding the Plan

• Trust the plan
• Work the plan
• Grow the plan

Essential Questions

1. If there is no physical evidence to prove that this plan for my success will works, can I trust the plan?
2. I have no idea if and when or how the plan will be executed. Can I work the plan?
3. I do know I'm going to stumble and fall, lose friends, family, and material possessions; can I still grow this plan?

How to trust, work, and grow the plan

Visualization--Imagining, in vivid detail, what you would be looking at if your dreams or goals were already realized. 

Additional resources

Have you been waiting for your dream life to find you?  Newsflash, that's not how this works!  Ella shares her own baptism of sorts as she is finally able to acknowledge what kept her from going after the life she visualized for herself.

Notes:

Unpacking fear: you can't take it with you on this journey.

• Doing what I had never seen done before
• Stepping away from what was comfortable
• The unlimited opportunities
• Meeting people who may want to harm me
• Never making it back home

Choosing the shore: Why did you stay

• Familiarity and examples
• Proving people wrong
• Self-doubt, self-hatred, insecurity, inferiority complex
• I didn't know what I already knew

Life on the shore: What did you do

• College, marriage, career, children
• Suburban lifestyle (trap and pitfalls)
• Work, vacation, children's activities, shared friends
• safety and security

Unexpected high tide: When it's not safe and secure anymore

• Loss of job and income
• Health issues
• Repossession, foreclosure, bankruptcy
• depression, anxiety, despair, hopelessness

The tide recedes: I'm farther out in the water

• Gain a different perspective
• Realize my own strength
• Found different people
• Learned to trust what's inside me to guide me

 Why do we celebrate Valentine's Day, anyway?  Ella shares a brief history of sweetest holiday known to man.  Did you know this celebration has its roots in a pagan fertility festival?  Ella asks the hard questions and gives even harder answers.

Intimacy and Romance are what women crave and why so many love Valentine's Day.  It's the one day out of the year when they are guaranteed to get at least one or the other.

 I am not created to be a #Whore. #Indenturedservant. Fu#k toy. #Expendable. I am not a W.I.F.E. Ella explores the dual nature of #womanhood and why a #woman will never be a happily #married W.I.F.E. because she will not acquiesce to the whims of #masculinetoxicity.

Lilith Lesson #1

A woman is on equal footing with any man; therefore she will never allow herself to be placed beneath or behind him... not even for orgasms.

Lilith Lesson #2

A wife accepts the fact she is expendable and works to keep her husband happy, even at the expense of herself. A woman knows once a man has experienced a woman, he will never want to be apart from her.

Lilith Lesson #3

A wife willingly takes responsibility  for her husband's mess and ties herself to her husband's service until he says she's done enough. A woman will not tolerate the messiness of men and refuses to take part in cleaning it up.

Lilith Lesson #4

A woman honors all aspects of her dual nature as well as the various roles she has to play. She is Shekina when she first marries. She is a mother when she gives birth. An always--she is a woman, Divine Goddess--who treasures the company of a man but won't sacrifice herself for his ego.

Resources for further reader

https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/people-cultures-in-the-bible/people-in-the-bible/lilith/

https://www.hindustantimes.com/books/book-excerpt-adam-s-first-wife-wasn-t-eve-but-lilith-here-s-why-they-broke-up/story-xqsev3SSBzd8XMyyXsGJHN.html

chaper 10 from Graves, Robert & Raphael Patai, (1964). The Hebrew Myths. pp. 65-69 (New York: Doubleday

https://www.thoughtco.com/legend-of-lilith-origins-2076660

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Forbidden_fruit.jpg

http://faculty.washington.edu/scstroup/Lilith.html

https://www.themystica.com/lilith-and-shekina/

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This episode takes Ella on a mind-blowing trip into why she uses Google Assistant to avoid asking other people for help.  She shares personal experiences, past hurts, and uncovers some insightful epiphanies about her attitude about asking for help.

Loaded Questions

1. What expectations do I have of people I may ask for help?
2. Who or what taught me to expect those things when asking for help?
3. What does it really mean to ask for help from others?

LQ1 

Expectations--A belief that something will happen or be the case in the future.  Help--To give support to, to assist with, to make more pleasant, to improve a situation. To relieve.

Unpacking LQ1 

• Watching my mother repeatedly ask for help left me with feeling of insecurity and an inferiority complex.
• I avoid(ed) asking for help to avoid dealing with my feelings and emotional state.

LQ2 

My mother taught me asking for help made me a weak and inferior human being.

Unpacking LQ2 

• Experiences. With experience comes growth in rational people.  But in irrational people, experiences leads to more of the same. [Lack of being present in her life leads to a lack of self-knowledge.]
• Good judgement or discernment requires a connection between the understanding of the physical and spiritual self. The lack of spiritual awareness leads to a lack of sound actions and decisions.

LQ3 

"Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man. For him all doors are flung wide. For him all tongues greet, all honors crown, all eyes follow with desire.  Our love goes out to him and embraces him because he did not need it." Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Unpacking LQ3

• "God will not have His work made manifest by cowards." RWE The universe designed both the physical and spiritual selves to work in a symbiotic relationship.  My humanity is not strong enough, not brave enough to do the work the Universe has for me.  My Beast (divine self) needs my humanity to do the work the Universe has for me.

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This episode of Enchanted Beast Podcast answers the Essential question of why I allow myself to be distracted from completing the tasks I need to complete.

Focus: Intentional Living or Living on Purpose