My SuperSoulSessions Experience

0:01 hi everyone it's Dr shaali I have just returned from the most magnificent transformational weekend of my life I think um I was recently at the Oprah Winfree Super Soul session event Super Soul TV event in Los Angeles where I was part of a fantastic group of luminaries and thought leaders and change agents uh presenting our ideas to the world it was at UCLA uh in an auditorium a hall of

0:33 about maybe 1,700 or 2,000 people and each one of us got to come on stage and speak from our heart so yesterday I had to leave LA and go straight to Detroit where I was doing another talk and I wrote uh about my experience there and I wanted to share it with you through my voice my being because I felt it was too expensive and had too much emotion to Simply Be read so I'm going to read to

1:00 you what I wrote on my blog my seven biggest takeaways from my weekend with Oprah I just spent the last two days in La at Oprah's Super Soul event with the most amazing people ever first off Oprah herself there's not much I can add to what you already know her to be except that she is more than you know her to be more real more relatable more authentic more and more divine

1:31 and then there was as Oprah calls him the rock star of the spiritual world eart tole you have all seen him on TV perhaps or in lectures what you may not know is that what you see is what he is all the time as Oprah said when we were toasting with wine and tequila shots later at night you know eart we need to drink the stuff just to get to the presence you already have he is the

1:58 epitome of Stillness and presence Bar None then there was my friend entrepreneur extraordinaire Marie forio who has created an Empire helping others manifest their passions and reach their dreams she has allowed thousands to merge their highest selves with their work selves and pave the way for them to reclaim purpose and meaning in their lives she just blew me away with her energy her realness her authenticity and her huge heart then there were those I

2:30 had never met before there was The Surreal and graceful Chris Carr who has created a movement through her own relationship with cancer called My Crazy Sexy Cancer she has allowed Millions to redefine their relationship with this disease and turn it on its head sitting next to her at dinner was perhaps one of my sweetest moments in this weekend I got the privilege to Bear witness to a woman who couldn't be more badass funny and yet so powerful in her her ability

3:00 to stay wide open and vulnerable I had heard about Carolyn mace for all my life renowned medical Mystic intuitive and spiritual healer everyone in the room recognized that she had a power that Oprah called kind of scary it was a treat for me to see her as a human being hanging loose and enjoying the moment it reminded me that at the end of the day each of these teachers I rever are just human and to pedestalize them is to rip them from

3:31 their greatest Essence which is their heart which is just like ours and then I met the unbelievable Amanda Stenberg this 17-year-old has done more in her young life than I did in all of my first 30 she spoke about using her voice to stand up for what she believed in and that true power comes from reclaiming who you truly are this Fierce activist is also a creative Talent having appeared in The Hunger Games Trilogy she blew everyone away with her freshness

4:04 and Clarity of spirit that only the young can have I couldn't wait to meet Cheryl straight could not wait the one who's um who wrote the book Wild and the movie was made after it was going to be one of my star struck moments I knew it and the moment delivered she was beyond awesome so real so present so ready to Bear her heart and most importantly she felt it was almost her Duty her s sacred

4:35 obligation to make the people around her feel their most amazing selves I asked her why didn't you just go to Italy or India like Elizabeth Gilbert I mean seriously why the Pacific Trail for 94 days she looked at me and said you know some Journeys are meant to be done alone The Wretched and long way I needed to go so far deep inside myself and I needed to not talk to anyone for such a long time and then she Shrugged her shoulders

5:07 and with a with her Ry sense of humor she said and I only had $1,000 to my name she reminded me that going inward is the only way to resurrect the soul and that if we have lost ourselves there is a way back even if it takes 94 days of solitude in the wilderness the next bright star I could not wait to hug was Shaka sangor if you have not seen his recent talk with Oprah on Super Soul

5:35 grab some tissues and go watch it now this man was convicted of second deegree murder and spent 19 years in prison most of it or much of it in solitary confinement out for just 5 years now he has become a teacher extraordinaire spreading the message of redemption and healing to all who suffer from a childhood they had no choice but to fall victim to just as he had being with Shaka you can see a man who carries the

6:02 weight of his past on his shoulders and the crushing decisions he made reflected in his deep dark eyes but you also see someone who takes his mandate very seriously to ensure that others do not fall prey to his choices so he has now set off to transform and Enlighten young men and women who grew up like him every moment of his Waking Life this is his life's Mission and boy does he embody it you meet Shaka and you are allowed to

6:31 remember that you are indeed blessed but more than that to remember that Enlightenment mostly comes after pain when you are with Shaka you feel you are with an enlightened being he was a gift to me and then there was the Superstar Carrie Washington yes the Carrie Washington that ethereal Fierce stunning talented beyond belief Hollywood Sensation that Carrie Washington she talked about overcoming the prevalent stereotypes around race gender Beauty

7:03 and how she broke them down one by one using curiosity her relationship with the Divine and mindfulness to help her through she sha with her heart and led with her intuition and she was 100% Carrie the woman we can all relate to feel and be inspired by she also told me how much my work had helped her and she wasn't stingy in her enthusiasm oh no she gave her love to everyone around her open arms wide and free for all we all

7:32 felt it basked in it and we will forever remember it thank you Carrie I leave India AR to the end for my relationship with her is a personal one two years ago or maybe it was a year ago when I was in Detroit where I happened to go back yesterday um a young girl and a man sang a song it was called I Am light I heard it for the first time ever and my heart literally broke open I went up to the

8:01 end uh to them at the end and I said this song is the emblem of conscious parenting did you write it for me and they said no Indi had written the song and since that day I adopted the song as the backdrop for conscious parenting playing it over and over at every event I can till everyone is sick of hearing it when I received the invitation to speak at this event and was told that I would be speaking after indari and

8:27 before e tole I had a thought gosh the universe is manifesting something so mysterious but so Grand so perfect so magical at that point I didn't even know the half of it when I went for rehearsal on Friday on the day before the event I thought it would be a quick light and mic check but then Oprah's team of people are so delicious we just decided to hang around my friends were with me after all Oprah was going to come and

8:56 rehearse and then eart was going to come and rehearse and Amandla and Carolyn mace and India Ari so we just took our sleeping bags and decided to spend the night there so of course when Oprah and eard and Carolyn and amandela came we did have our come to Jesus moment but for me personally when India came on stage I think I kind of died she did her entire rehearsal for us and then at the end we

9:22 were all thinking to ourselves no she's not going to but yes she did she sang I am light to hear her sing my song for me I felt it was only for me was perhaps one of the most touching and profound moments of my life it was a testament you know that things do manifest and that we can intentionally Place ourselves in This Magnificent stream of Consciousness called the collective intelligence and once we flow in these

9:50 Waters with the highest Grace things actually do get attracted to us it was one year ago in Detroit that I heard the song and as I typed this blog which I'm now reading to you I was flying back to Detroit and I just felt I had one of those full circle wellements which if you ever have in your life it's worthy of taking a pause going within getting on your knees and having Eternal gratitude because these moments are few

10:16 and far between but when they happen you know that you're in the presence of something bigger than yourself and you've entered Grace so this was my unbelievable weekend at Oprah's playground of essence manifestation and intention but here are my biggest takeaways Chase your happiness follow your heart this is the only path to Joy don't believe the garbage that you need to make money and life is too hard if you follow your heart wealth will come in more ways than one and life will be

10:48 glorious only be you and only do you don't be as Shard of a false self this is the only way to live in an authentic and real life every wrong decision you make and there will be many and some will be wretchedly wrong are designed for our Awakening you are going to marry the wrong person but also right for your growth you are going to go bankrupt perhaps eat really badly lie or Worse hurt someone's feelings irretrievably

11:20 wrong choices are part of the growing we need to do expect it preempt it and when it does happen don't wallow in it be ready to embrace the teaching it has for you and remember if Shaka and Cheryl can turn their lives around so can you stop wasting time the moment is now time is precious most of us waste our days Shackled by this need to be liked approved understood stop doing this it is a waste of time don't play your life

11:50 for others only play it for yourself even if this means being alone for 94 days live in the present my wife beyond belief literary agent she was also there at this weekend and she said to me in the most profound way you know I have three kids and I have fully realized that it is their life and they have a right to live it I am completely detached I don't need their life to look a particular way for me I just don't I

12:18 don't want anything for them except for them to be who it is they need to be in the moment my agent my magical Powerhouse of an agent she reminded me that we all need to detach from our expectations about the future this is what eart is a master at he simply doesn't go to the past or the future he just stays right here and calls you into the present moment with him the moment she said that my agent I just breathe

12:45 and let go and surrendered all my fears around my daughter I hope you will too give give and then give some more this is the final big lesson I got from this weekend each person I met this weekend from the people who put my makeup did my hair helped me with my bag open my door My Limo Driver to Oprah staff to Oprah herself was a giver a giver with strong and clear boundaries they each had found

13:12 a way to give of themselves so that they radiated with energy and power instead of being depleted by it and this is the key you know there's no point to give if in the giving you are taking from your own power source we can only give truly give when we are overflowing with power source here is the Paradox we need to give not from the ego because when you give from the ego which means you're coming from lack means you're giving

13:40 with conditionality you're giving to get love belonging approval please look at me please think I'm worthy when we give from the ego place we will deplete from our power source but when we give and in the giving we understand that we are receiving connection essence inspiration Awakening that every moment you think you're giving to someone else and you're so martyred and victim you will deplete from your power source but when you give and in the giving you see that I am

14:11 giving for me to be connected I'm giving for me to be alive I'm giving for me to be engaged this is for me then there is no giving then the giving and the receiving are synonymous they're happen happening congruently they happening in the same moment each one part of the other so in essence the moment of giving and receiving are one and the same this is true giving so when you give from the spirit you constantly receive gifts of

14:37 Awakening presence surrender and inner Divinity the final are the final uh thread the most significant chord the pivotal Foundation of this entire weekend for me was that we are all one you know we all have ideas about each other we think to ourselves you know Oprah she's so rich or she's so famous and she's got it together or eart is just too Transcendent for any of us and then when you meet these very real

15:07 authentic people you realize you know they're just like us they're still figuring it out yes Oprah is still figuring it out and she's not afraid to share that with us and eard he still hasn't reached his ultimate destination but every moment is a striving so this weekend reminded me that we are here in a collective Oneness we are here to support each other and as long as we can remember that then we can all Triumph so

15:32 take charge of your present moment it is in this moment that you create reverberations for your future the future doesn't come to you it's created from this moment this moment is the only moment of relevance enter this moment so if you're washing the dishes and you are supposed to do that then enter it surrender to it and say I am washing dishes and if you're cleaning your child's diaper and you're cleaning up diarrhea or vomit or your

15:59 painting walls or fixing door knobs if that is what you're meant to do in that moment enter it with holy reverence because that Holy reverence puts you in the Stream of the collective Enterprise in the Stream of Grace Consciousness so surrender to the present moment be aware of the moment and enter it with joy and complete abandon thank you for letting me share with you my insights my transformation from the most incredible weekend thank

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