In this episode, Dr. Cari Wise discusses the concept of living in alignment, which she elaborates on in her bestselling book “Radical Freedom.”
Living in alignment involves making choices free from fear and societal expectations and is essential for personal fulfillment. She outlines three pillars of alignment: the physical mind, personal essence, and universal connection. She explains that many people, especially in the veterinary field, rely heavily on logic, which can limit their potential.
She encourages listeners to explore their personal essence and recognize the interconnectedness of all beings. Despite the challenges, she urges veterinary professionals to trust their intuition to improve both their professional and personal lives.
Key takeaways:
Dr. Wise encourages embracing intuitive abilities to enhance both professional practice and personal life.
Theme of the Podcast:
The podcast focuses on the concept of living in alignment to achieve radical freedom.
This theme is also explored in Dr. Wise’s co-authored book “Radical Freedom,” which is internationally acclaimed.
Living in Alignment:
Defined as a personal journey toward freedom, characterized by making choices without fear and exploring diverse ideas.
Emphasizes the importance of aligning with one’s true self for fulfillment, which requires intention and effort.
Societal Influence:
Individuals are born without societal expectations but absorb them over time from parents, teachers, and peers.
These societal rules can create rigid definitions of a fulfilling life, which may not align with personal fulfillment.
Three Pillars of Alignment:
Physical Mind: Involves logical thinking and data reliance, which can restrict experiences and potential.
Personal Essence: Represents the soul or spirit, crucial for understanding one’s true self and potential.
Universal Connection: Emphasizes interconnectedness and the significance of perceived coincidences as manifestations of this connection.
Challenges for Veterinary Professionals:
Veterinary professionals may struggle to trust their intuition due to their scientific training.
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Hi there. I’m Doctor Cari Wise, veterinarian, certified life coach, and certified quantum human design specialist. If you’re a veterinary professional looking to up level your life and your career, or maybe looking to go in an entirely new direction, then what I talk about here on the Joyful DVM podcast is absolutely for you. Let’s get started. Hello, my friends. Welcome back to the Joyful DVM podcast. In today’s episode, we’re going to be talking about living in alignment and what that actually means.
And before we jump into this topic, I want to share with you a really exciting thing that happened over the last week. I had the opportunity to co author a book called Radical freedom. And inside of that book, in chapter 25, I wrote all about living in alignment and how this is the path to radical freedom. That book published last week, and I’m excited to share that it has become an international bestseller.
Not only have we hit nine categories of international bestseller in the United States, but also four categories of bestseller in the UK, three categories of bestseller in Canada, and three categories of bestseller in Australia. This book has had a massive impact in less than a week that it has been published. The title of that book is radical freedom, and I definitely recommend that you go find it on Amazon and take a look because the chapters within that are all very.
They’re all individually written by individual authors and they have a lot to share about different ways to approach and consider freedom in your own life. And ultimately, for myself, freedom is what I’m seeking. So whether that has to do with my veterinary career or the rest of my life, I’m looking for freedom. Freedom to choose, freedom to experience what I want to experience, freedom to live fear free of pressure, freedom to explore different ideas and experiences.
Just overall freedom, I do not like the feeling of being trapped. And I bet that you don’t like that either. For me, personally, throughout my journey, what I have learned is that living in alignment with myself is the most important thing. And this is something that takes some intention to actually experience. Now, why is that so? The truth is that when we come to live in this world, we have no rules put upon us.
So there are no preconceived notions, there are no judgments, there is no expectation. And as we live in this world, we are taught the rules of living in this world. We are taught who we are supposed to become, who we are supposed to be, how we are supposed to behave, and we’re taught these things by the people who have the greatest influence over us. So our parents, our teachers, our clergy, our friends, our family, now, the, the things that we learn from these people of influence, it’s not malicious teaching.
So I want to be really clear about this. It’s not malicious teaching. It’s just simply learning and teaching from their own example. So when somebody close to us or of influence, has experienced something and has been drawn a conclusion about how to experience something similar or to avoid something similar, then those rules and that wisdom, if you will, gets passed on. But what happens is that as wisdom gets passed on, as experience gets passed on, it starts to become this concrete way of living and expectations of how to be a good human and live a good life start to get defined.
What’s true, though, is that what it is and what it means to be a good human or to live a good life is a very individual thing. It’s different for me than it is for you. And this is where living in alignment comes in. When you live a life of alignment, you live the life that is meant for you. You live a life that is driven by what you’re interested in, by what you want to pursue, by your own goals, not what the world taught you that you should do.
And so for many of us, especially if we are in a professional career, part of what we’ve been taught that it requires to live a good life is to find a good job and to work that job and to build up a good retirement. And then if you’ve done that right enough, then you someday you get to stop working and you have enough money to then hold you through the rest of your life.
But what are you going to do all along the way? Because your life doesn’t start at retirement. Your life doesn’t begin once you’ve accumulated enough money. Your life isn’t only worthy if you have stacked up enough achievements. It’s not about any of those things. Living a life of alignment is living a life that is both experienced and driven by your true essence, by the spirit of who you are.
And we are all very different in that regard. One of the things I think is very important for us to consider is the things that we want for ourselves. Now, I’m not telling you the things that you want that somebody told you that you should want, because that’s very different thing. But when you sit quietly, when you are doing something creative or something that is very fun for you, and you have these moments of what you love doing, what you love participating in, and what you’re really interested in, those things actually can help you to understand a little bit more about who you really are the truest version of you.
And alignment, living, learning to live in alignment is really the summation of all of that. So when we think about living a life of alignment, I’ve identified that there are three pillars to alignment. The first pillar has to do with the physical mind. The second pillar is all about the personal essence, and the third pillar is about our universal connection. Now, when we think about the physical mind, what we’re talking about is your brain.
We’re talking about all the things that we think about here in the 3d world. And so much focus gets put on our physical mind if we don’t understand how that mind works, if we don’t know that we have the power to manage our mind and to manage our mindset, then we will just live at the effect of whatever direction our brain decides to go. Without any awareness, that part of what our brain does is work against anything that feels uncertain or new.
This is quite disappointing, if you ask me, because everything that’s new and everything that is uncertain and everything that is still out there in possibility is absolutely worth pursuing. But there’s this lower part of your brain that has done a very good job at keeping you alive, that’s going to look at everything that’s new or everything that’s outside of the box, everything that is different than what everybody else is experiencing.
It’s going to look at that as if it is risky, as if it is irresponsible, as if it is scary and uncertain and should not be pursued. So there’s part of your brain that is just simply going to talk you out of some of the things that you’re interested in or excited about, especially if there isn’t any evidence of anybody else who has done those things, or if those things, if the story around those things is one that spending time doing those things or spending money doing those things is irresponsible.
So you just want to pay attention to that and realize that the physical mind can work against you, that the logic of the physical mind can be very persuasive, but also incomplete in the logic itself. This is probably one of the biggest lessons that I’ve learned over the last 20 years, is that logic alone is a very short sighted way to live life. And that was kind of a hard thing for me to really understand, because I like my data, I like believing that things are certain, that outcomes can be certain.
I like structure sometimes, and there’s safety in all of those things. And so if you are a very responsible person who is very good at following the rules, who likes to know exactly what’s going to happen and then see it happen that way, then the logic. So the left side of your brain, the logical side of your brain, is probably very well practiced. And this is very true for many of us who are in veterinary medicine because it has been our left sided brain, the logical side of our brain that has allowed us to go through all of these academic programs, to earn these degrees and ultimately to get into this profession.
Unfortunately, the left sided brain alone is not all that’s required to live a very fulfilling life, to live a life in your greatest potential, a life that was designed for you. Now, I’m not going to say you’re having a bad life. You can have a very, very good life. But if you feel like something’s missing, if you feel kind of exhausted and stuck in the the day in, day out grind of doing the same thing over and over again, and you just feel like there’s something more to this life than what you are experiencing, then I want you to know that you’re right about that.
There’s so much more to this life experience than getting up and going to work and collecting money and collecting degrees and collecting accolades. Collecting accolades and checking off all the boxes of what it means to be a good human and have a good life. There’s so much more to living the life experience itself than all of those things. And those things get a lot of airtime, those things get a lot of focus and a lot of praise put on them by those who live very much in only the first pillar.
So the pillar of the physical mind. The physical mind is all about logic. The physical mind is all about what you can see and feel here in this world, only in the 3d, without any consideration that there’s anything else beyond or within that life experience. The second pillar of alignment is the pillar of personal essence. So this is your soul or this is your spirit. This is that part of you that just knows things sometime.
This is that part of you that is the truest essence of who you are. So you are a soul in a human experience. You are not a human with a soul. So you are a soul first. And that part of you, that energetic being inside of you that existed before and it will exist again after you’ve gone through this lifetime. If we don’t ever consider our connection to it or that we exist in this type of way, then we will look at the life that we live as if it is only made up of the there is nothing else before it or beyond it.
This, I think, can be one of the most disappointing things that we can do. And that’s just my own opinion, but I think it’s very disappointing to consider, and very sad to consider that really all we are is just this human and this flesh in this moment. And once this life is over, that it’s complete. And that is certainly not what I believe. And you get to decide whatever you want to believe.
But I think it’s important to share with you different perspectives. Because if you’ve always just believed one perspective and never even considered that there might be other perspectives to consider, and you also then simultaneously don’t feel fulfilled in your life, or you feel frustrated or stuck, then it seems very irresponsible to not share with you the aspects of. Of this human experience that can actually be the answers that you’re looking for and fill the gaps in that you’ve sensed are missing, but don’t have any idea how to fill.
And this is really where this idea of living in alignment comes in. Because the physical mind is very busy, and the physical body will keep you preoccupied. And the world itself really puts a lot of value on what we can see and touch and feel with our hands, and the rules that we can place and the way that we can live up to those rules and then judge each other against those rules, and what it means to be responsible and logical and all of that stuff.
The worldly existence of all of us really loves that physical mind pillar, but that physical mind pillar needs to be anchored in something, and it is already, but many of us don’t even realize it. And this is where the personal essence is. So the truest version of you, the truth of who you are at that soul level, that’s your own personal essence, and it’s very unique to you.
And the truth is, my friends, you were never supposed to be like everybody else. This is where we tend to create so much extra stress and pressure on ourselves as humans, because we are looking around at the other humans through this lens of comparison. And we are believing that there is a right way to live this life, there’s a right way to do our jobs, there’s a right way to manage our finances, there is a right way to engage in our relationships.
And whatever that right way is that we have defined, or that has been defined to us that we have accepted as the true definition, then we will constantly judge ourselves and others against those expectations. What I want you to consider is, what if it’s just all made up? What if none of that is actually the point of any of this? The truth is that you’re an individual, that you are unique, and that you are here to live your life and experience your journey.
And that journey is not supposed to look like everybody else’s. The things that we go through, the challenges that we face, I will even go as far as to say that they are all intentional, that everything that we have faced that has been a challenge has had a purpose behind it, something that we can learn from, something we can grow through, and even if we’re in the thick of it, and there’s those moments where, like, there is no way this could ever be happening for my good.
Just trust me when I say that someday you will look back on this experience and you will see exactly why this was for your good. It may not be next week or next month or even next year, but I’ve lived long enough now to know that the worst of the worst things that have happened to me in my life have been some of the greatest gifts, even though at the time, they didn’t feel like it.
And all of this has been part of this adventure of learning and discovering and really starting to be connected to my own personal essence, that personal essence that we have, that ability to tap into the true nature of who we are within, that there are so many answers available to us. I strongly believe that you already have all the answers that you seek inside of you. But if you don’t learn how to quiet the physical mind, you will not hear the.
That wisdom that is inside of you. That’s why it is so important that we learn how to work with what the brain offers us as far as thought processes and getting focused and spinning on thought loops and creating different narratives. I think it’s so important that we learn how to manage our physical minds, because if we don’t, then the physical mind just drives the entire life experience, and you’re missing out on so much more.
When we learn how to quiet that physical mind, then we make the space to be able to hear what’s already inside of us, to hear our intuition connected to that, to start to be able to make some decisions from a feeling, an internal feeling of that personal essence, as opposed to being so logical about everything. Now, what I’m not saying is make emotional decisions. That’s not what I’m saying at all.
I think we have to become aware of our emotions. We have to understand where those emotions are coming from. We have to question whether or not the stories that are creating those emotions are true. This is all very much left brain. This is all very physical mind. Based information. This is all part of mindset management, and mind management overall. This is all part of that physical mind, pillar of alignment.
And once we learn how to manage the mind, then we open up ourselves to be able to hear and to be able to feel through our intuition. And it’s a very different kind of feeling. It’s an energetic kind of feeling. It’s a knowing, it’s an inner knowing, it’s an inner peace. It’s a. Sometimes I like to talk about it as kind of like downloads. Like, all of a sudden you have this awareness, this spark of awareness from somewhere.
Some people will talk this call, this inspired ideas or inspired awareness, and I think that’s all true. It’s all this wisdom that comes from within you and yet also beyond you at the same time, because it’s part of your personal essence, it’s not part of your physical mind here in the 3d, it’s that part of you, that soul, that spirit that existed before and will exist after. And in this physical world at this moment in time, you still have access to all of that wisdom of your higher self.
But if we don’t learn how to manage the physical mind, we will miss it and we will start to believe that it doesn’t even exist. Or perhaps we just dismiss the idea that it exists altogether, especially depending on how you’ve been raised and what you’ve been taught to believe. You might have been taught to believe that anything outside of what you can see in touch with your hands doesn’t actually exist.
And that is for you to decide. For you, 100%, you get to decide what you believe about all of these things. My goal with this, though, is to show you that and to just introduce you to this idea that who you are at your core is so much bigger than what you’re experiencing in this physical world. And when you start to really play around with the idea that that can be true, you have the opportunity to tap into this wisdom that is beyond what you can logically conclude with your physical mind.
It’s so important. So the first pillar of alignment is learning how to manage that physical mind. The second pillar of alignment is tapping into and exploring your personal essence. And the third pillar of alignment is our universal connection. My friends, we are all connected. Whether we are humans in different places across this planet, whether we’re talking about animals or nature, or even the sunrise and the sunset and water and weather and all of those things, we are all connected.
We are all different forms of energy. And energy is neither created nor destroyed. It simply changes form. So when we start to recognize how we are all part of the same experience and we are connected to all of the things here in this physical world, we can also start to recognize and understand that we are also part of all the things beyond this physical world, the things that we can’t touch, the things that we can’t see.
Many of us have had experiences in our lifetimes where things have happened that we can’t explain, where we have caught things and visions out of the corner of our eye and then turn to look and there’s nothing there. And what I want you to consider is that what we can see here in the 3d, in our physical world, is just the tip of the iceberg relation to what is actually going on all around us.
There is so much that we cannot see here in the 3d, but that does not mean that it doesn’t exist. There are many things that happen in our lives that we dismiss as coincidence. And so when it comes to our universal connection, I want you to consider that maybe there’s no such thing as coincidence. If there’s no such thing as coincidence, then what is the other explanation for some of these things that just happened?
Why is it that you think about your friend Susie, and then she just all of a sudden calls within the next 15 minutes? What is it that happens when a song comes on the radio that reminds you of a memory of an experience with somebody, and then all of a sudden they’re right in front of you? There are all these little things that are happening all around us that we are just dismissing as coincidence.
But I want you to consider that maybe they’re not coincidence. Maybe they’re actually just signs and signals that you have so much more support than you even realize that you have, that there’s so much going on beyond what we can see here in the 3d world, and that this universal connection is always at work to help us to live our best lives here in the physical plane and to guide us as we move through this journey.
Now, if we are just all trying to live the same kind of life through a 3d kind of definition, and with all these expectations of what it means to be a good humanity, then this is all the stuff that we miss. And this is a life that feels really restricted and really kind of prescripted, if you will, and a little bit empty the older that you get. At least that has been my experience and the experience of many, many people that I’ve talked to, that after you get out of those initial few decades of where we’re really caught up in what it means to kind of be a good human, like, trying to figure out how to survive on our own, going through our educational situations, getting into a profession, getting a job, having a family, like checking off all these boxes of what people do in their lifetimes.
You get to this point in your mid thirties. I think this is where it starts to kind of poke its head a little bit in your forties. You really start to explore it. By the time you hit 50, you’re kind of like, what the heck is life all about? Many people call this a midlife crisis. But what I want you to consider is that this is all very intentional.
That, yes, absolutely. We got to figure out how to survive as humans initially, right? Because we are not able to survive on our own from the moment that we are born. And. But as we start to get into our twenties and our thirties and we start to have more agency over ourselves and more responsibility and the ability and the ability to take care of ourselves, to earn money, to provide for ourselves, this is the time that it is completely natural to start questioning the meaning of life, start questioning why you’re doing the things that you’re doing.
And as you get to be into your thirties and forties, it’s very common for us to have these epiphanies where we just realize, why the heck am I even doing the things that I’m doing? Why did I make those decisions? This isn’t what I actually want to do. This is what my parents wanted me to do. This is what so and so wanted me to do. This is what sounded good at the time because I didn’t know what else to do.
And when we look at that and we start to have some of those awarenesses around some of the decisions that we’ve made in the past, what can happen is that we can then conclude that we made bad decisions early on that have then restricted what happens for ourselves in the future. And it’s really important that you hear that that is never true, that no matter why you made the decisions that you made in the past, even as you gain awareness that maybe the decisions that you made aren’t decisions that you want to continue to make as you move forward, it’s very important for you to realize that you always have the opportunity to make a new decision.
That’s one of the most exciting things about living, is that we always get to make a new choice. If the choices that we’ve made aren’t creating for us the experiences that we want to have, and the more that we get to know ourselves. The more that we quiet the physical mind. And really become familiar with that personal essence. And start to trust our own intuition. And really feel into what is right for us individually.
It’s very natural for us to recognize that there are things in our lives. That don’t actually align with who we are and what we want to be and what we want to do. And it’s okay to start making decisions, to let some of those things go. As you start to play around with this. Playing around with really living in a way that is right for you. Even when it’s not the norm of what people do and what people decide.
When you start to play around with it, what’s so fascinating is how that universal connection will show up. It will start dropping you these signs and signals that you’re on the right path. And the thing of it is, all we have to do is start paying attention. The truth is that that support is already all around us all the time. But when we are so focused on the.
Our physical mind is going 100 miles an hour all the time, we cannot hear our own intuition. And we will not notice those little signals of that universal support that has always been there, my friends, with those of us who are in veterinary medicine. I think that we have so much opportunity to really connect with our true essence. And to really start to understand this concept of alignment.
Because we are very scientific and nerdy. We do want to know how the brain works and things like that. So we are already kind of predisposed to being open to the idea of understanding the neuroscience behind emotion. And why our brains do what they do, and why we then react the way that we react. So all the concepts of understanding the physical mind and learning how to manage it, I think the study of those things can become very natural for us.
Because we are curious and scientific by nature. I think also that universal connection part comes really naturally for us. Because many of us, even if we haven’t considered what’s going on beyond this world, we might be able to agree that we do feel connections with the animal patients that we work with, or that we feel connection with animals in nature or different species. That has been a lot of what has driven many veterinary professionals.
To pursue veterinary medicine. Because of the connection that we feel with those animals. And I want you to just consider that that connection is not an accident. That that connection is actually evidence of how we are connected to all kinds of things all around us. That many people dismiss as veterinary professionals. I think we are uniquely qualified to consider that we are more strongly connected to so much more than just our own species, if you will.
And I think that our experiences with animals really help to solidify that as true. The part that I think that we struggle with as veterinary professionals is this personal essence piece is following our intuition. Now, there are many of you out there, like me, that practice medicine in a very intuitive way. So this is something that, a skill that I’ve developed over time. It’s something that has always been there.
But it’s taken time for me to learn to trust my intuition. And I’m not saying that my diagnostic testing isn’t important, because it absolutely is, and I absolutely use it. But there is a lot to be said for just stepping back away from all of the data and asking yourself, what do you think is wrong with this, Peter? And it’s amazing how when you learn to ask yourself that question, how often you will have that answer.
And then you’re going to use your diagnostic testing to back that up, to confirm it, to move forward, to then treat, and to then also be able to check against a treatment plan, against a response, right? So we can evaluate how our patients are doing. But don’t dismiss this inner knowing when it comes to interacting with your patients. This is why it’s so important for us to get eyes on them, to get hands on them, to have an opportunity to examine them.
And yes, we are gathering data. It’s a very scientific way of practicing medicine. But don’t. Don’t only use. That is what I’m saying. Give yourself the opportunity to just step back, independent of all of the logic that has to do with medicine. And just ask yourself, what do you think is going on with this pet? Because, my friends, you have so much more insight than you even realize.
You have so much more information available than you even realize. But if you constantly question yourself, then you will just keep dismissing this inner knowing that is already there. And yes, it’s true that it’s not going to be right 100% of the time. Like, this is the practice of veterinary medicine. But I think you’ll be surprised at how often you’re on the right track if you can just learn to trust yourself.
And this is not a skill that’s only useful in veterinary medicine. It’s useful in every aspect of your life. Remember I said you already have all the answers inside of you. You are the only one, my friend, who knows what’s right for you. But if you don’t allow yourself the opportunity to get in touch with who you are, to what you’re really about, to what really matters for you, independent of all the things that the world taught you about who you are and what you should find important and what should matter, then you will miss out on this most important connection, which is the connection with yourself, that connection with your own soul, your own spirit, that version of you that existed before and will exist after.
And my friend, you have access to that higher version of yourself right now and all the wisdom that that higher version of yourself brings with you. This is why it is so important to learn how to quiet the physical mind, pillar one, so that you can actually utilize that connection with your personal essence and really lean into your own path and give yourself permission to pursue the things that interest you, to have your own hopes and dreams and visions for the future, and to pursue those relentlessly without guilt, without fear of judgment, and without the need to make other people agree with what you want for your life.
You don’t need permission to live your own life. You get to decide that for yourself. And yes, veterinary medicine brought us together. That is why you are here. Because in some way, shape or form, you are connected to veterinary medicine and that is why you are listening to this podcast. My goal with this podcast is to show you that you are so much more than your profession, you are so much more than the label that defines you within this profession, that at the heart of all of it, you are still a very unique being with your own personal essence here in this physical world right now.
And you have a purpose, you have a very intentional role to play that is important not only for you and your own experience, but is important for us, all, the rest of us. Because if you don’t show up as you, then we miss out. And that is so important for us to really consider that if you don’t show up as you, there are things that the rest of us are going to miss out on.
Because there are things in this world that only you can do and there are people you will influence, that only you can influence. And you don’t have to try hard to do this. It’s quite the opposite. When you learn how to manage that physical mind, to quiet down all of that chatter, to stop putting all this pressure on you to be something that you’re not, and you allow yourself instead to explore and accept and embrace your personal essence, then living in this 3d world becomes so much easier.
And when you start to then pay attention to what’s happening around you and you notice the signs and the signals and the support that is around you all the time, then it gets to be a whole lot of fun because you start to realize there is so little to really be worried about, that the things that really matter are so much bigger than the little bits of chaos that we experience day in and day out.
It is the physical mind in the 3d world that teaches us to be afraid of these things, that in the grand scheme of things, don’t actually matter at all. They aren’t going to be the things that you take with you when you leave this life experience. So I encourage you to really start to consider, what does a life of alignment look like for you? What is your next step?
Is your next step learning how to manage that physical mind so it’s not driving the bus all the time and you’re not stuck in the cycle of comparison and frustration and self judgment. Is your next step learning to connect with your intuition, to hear your higher self, to develop that relationship with yourself now? Or is your next step to start to explore that universal connection, to start to watch for the signs and signals, and to look for all the different ways that you are already getting guidance from, what lies beyond, and ways that you can tap into that guidance as you move forward.
Only you know where you are in this journey. And I hope that this episode today has been helpful to consider and to help put into perspective your life in general. Because so often in the rat race and the busyness of the physical world, we just think that what we see is all there is. And what we see is just the tip of the iceberg, because there is so much more available to you as far as a life experience goes.
And I think one of the saddest things in the world is if we get caught in our professions, we get so busy that we stop engaging in our lives and we start to get so frustrated and hopeless when we think about the future. Because that just shows me, from my own experience, I can say this confidently, that just shows me that you’re living in that 3d only they’re living in the pillar of the physical mind without any awareness of your personal essence or the universal connection that’s available to all of us.
And when we can start to broaden our experience to include all three of these pillars, then no one that, then no single one of those pillars becomes the only part of our life experience. And that’s the point of all of this, in my opinion. So my friends, if you’re curious about what to do next, the greatest gift you can give yourself is to learn how to manage that physical mind.
And that is the heart of what we do inside of Vetlife academy. It can make all the difference in the world in you loving your veterinary career versus you hating your veterinary career. You can learn how to neutralize your veterinary career so it doesn’t have to be the thing that your well being is contingent upon. And as you learn how to work with what’s happening within your physical mind and how to quiet that so that you’re not only being driven, always being driven by that lower brain that’s scared of the world and that is just always looking to protect you.
And you start to realize that sometimes you’re going to feel uncomfortable. That’s actually not a problem. And then you have to avoid all the things that are uncomfortable. And you can stop comparing yourself to other people, and you can really start to build up your own confidence as you start to do that, then your veterinary career will get so much better. So this whole idea of managing the physical mind and learning how to work with the neuroscience of your brain to enhance your own well being, that is the heart of what we do inside of Vetlife academy.
So if you’re curious about that, because that is the best place to start as a veterinary professional, then just jump over to joyfuldvm.com vetlifeacademy and jump on our priority list. And as soon as we open, I will definitely let you know that those doors are open. Invite you to join us inside. In the meantime, I want you to consider just what I’ve shared with you today. I want you to sit in the quiet and just notice what comes up.
I want you to start to pay attention to the things that are happening around you. And you’ll start to see the evidence that there is an essence within you that has so much untapped potential as far as the wisdom and guidance that can provide you. And you’ll start to notice how there is life all around you that you’re not even paying attention to. And that there’s so much support for you beyond what you can see in the that there are little hints of this all around you through what we’re calling coincidences and through little signs and signals that are driving in front of you all the time.
But you’ve just been too busy to notice. If you’ll start to pay a little bit more of attention and start to slow down just a little bit more, you’re going to start to see how the things that I’ve shared today are true. As you start to recognize that they are true, hopefully it will do for you what it has done for me, which is build a lot of hope and build a lot of courage and build a lot of conviction and being in the importance of being who you are in this lifetime.
And you’ll start to see how important it is for the rest of us that you live in to who you were always meant to be. Because not only will your life change for the better, but you’ll help all the rest of us as well. All right, my friends, I hope you’ve enjoyed this episode. If so, please share it with a friend and leave us a review on iTunes.
I would really appreciate it. That’s going to wrap it up for this week, and I’ll see you soon. Bye for now.