Raw Conversations with Corinne Blum

We’ve strongly been indoctrinated to believe that there is something more powerful than us outside of us. Whether it’s the voice of authority, our parents, peers, God or even the Universe. We can have the tendency to believe something outside of us knows better, will praise or punish us, is teaching us lessons sometimes kindly and sometimes cruelly.

What we don’t realise is that we are not separate to what we seek guidance from. We are it. We are God, the Universe, Consciousness etc. We are it and we’re co-creating with it. We’ve simply been taught not to trust ourselves, that some higher authority knows better than our own inner knowing and wisdom. We’ve even been severed from source and told we need a middle man to get us there. All of this is something we have to unlearn.

In that context, we fall into the duality of right and wrong, good and bad, succeeding and failing, praise and punishment.

This isn’t a test. We’re not being graded. But we do get to choose what we learn from our experience. We do get to choose how we perceive it and how we respond to it. But no one outside of you has greater authority. No one can tell you how you should live your life, not even God, Spirit or the Source of all that is.

We’re shedding old paradigms and belief systems. We’re learning to trust ourselves again. We’re learning to let go of judgment and most importantly, we’re learning to be more loving, kind and compassionate with ourselves. We’re learning how to value ourselves again for the beautiful beings we are, having this wild and crazy experience of life and being human.

Go gently. Go kindly. We’re unlearning and remembering what’s true, once more.

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Loving you from afar,

Corinne

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For millennia mystics, poets and spiritual teachers have been talking about love. But now more than ever, in times of both crumbling and awakening, the choice to follow the path of love seems all the more prevalent.

Choosing love vs fear will change your life. It will also change the world. But it isn’t to say that we won’t still experience fear, but what I mean here is, will you let fear rule or let love lead?

Love is the great alchemist. Love is the only true and real thing. When we leave this body and this crazy simulation—this school of life—the only real thing left is and will be, love.

Fear is a figment of the imagination. It feels very real because we have all sorts, feelings and sensations in the body—the response feels real—but fear itself, isn’t.

The power of love is to hold, embrace and alchemise fear through its infinite and unconditional capacity to love all things. Love will never abandon, reject or neglect. It holds. It cares. It transmutes.

To change the macrocosm we must change the microcosm because “as within, so without and as above, so below.”

We have so much power to change the world. Not in the details but in the quantum. Energy, frequency, vibration and intention are all things not to be underestimated.

You can change the world. You can change your reality. You can change your state of being. But it comes down to this one choice: will you choose fear or love?

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Loving you from afar,

Corinne

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We are an instant coffee kind of culture. We want to fix and make things better instantaneously, and often strive to getting rid of symptoms vs looking at the core.

Our emotional world needs time. It needs patience. It requires us to be present, stay and be with our experience for more than a millisecond. It can be a tall order in a society that vies for our attention all around the clock. So more often than not, people push their feelings down and “away,” putting them in a state of emotional stagnancy rather than flow.

Our emotions, states of being and the phases we move through are just asking us for our presence. When we let go of judgment from the egoic mind, and drop into heart and compassion, it becomes much easier to sit with our emotions, our human experience and move through the various ups and downs of life.

We’re here riding the waves. It’s not a linear journey so don’t expect yourself to move along a straight and rigid line. Being human can feel messy sometimes. Welcome, you’re not alone. The trick is to drop the judgment and come into trust (which naturally occurs when we drop into the heart). From there, we’ll find we have all the love, compassion, kindness and patience that we need in order to navigate this wild ride of being human.

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Loving you from afar,

Corinne

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You’re not a never-ending project. You’re not imperfect as you are. You don’t need fixing because you’re not broken. You don’t even need to change how you’re feeling or what you’re experiencing by somehow “making it better,” if it means that you have to deny the truth of where you are in this moment.

The only way to truly “change,” evolve and grow is to first be where we are, here and now, and honour, respect, listen to, and be with our experience. Denying our emotions won’t help us grow. Wallowing in them, won’t encourage us to evolve either. But sitting and being with ourselves as we move through this human experience, will allow us to move through and with it, more fluidly, kindly and compassionately.

We’re coming out of a very long phase where gathering knowledge was one the most important focuses. I believe we’re now moving into a time when we can drop down from the mind and centre ourselves in heart and remember our knowing, instead.

All that we seek is already in here. We haven’t lost it, we’ve merely forgotten it.

What if we allowed ourselves to drop down and in, to come back to heart whenever we find ourselves in a state of tension, and fall into the lap of love that is always there, waiting to hold us?

And why is Love always there to hold us? Because Love is who we are. It is the essence of all that is. So it cannot not be there.

This is not a time of finding, it’s a time of remembering.

What if you didn’t have to try so hard to be you? What if you got to just be you, in all your messy humanity, and know that you are still (and always will be) loved?

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Loving you from afar,

Corinne

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We often think of progression as something akin to climbing steps: upwards and higher. We aspire to reach a higher place that is “better” to where (and who) we currently are.

I see progression, on a spiritual or personal evolutionary level, as a spiralling into ourselves so that we can spiral back up and out. We have to go into our humanity to reach our divinity.

The progression might look similar to what Dr. Joe Dispenza says about moving from “thought, to feeling, to knowing. From someone, to no one, to everyone. From somewhere, to nowhere, to everywhere.”

Spiritual progression, or self-growth, is the movement from our thoughts and ideas of who we are (which holds our beliefs, habits, patterns and judgments), into the feeling and language of our body, into such a state of presence and awareness with ourselves, that we naturally settle into what has always been there: our innate knowing and wisdom, our wholeness and worth. Ultimately, our connection, and returning home to, our true essence and Self.

It’s a journey that doesn’t ask you to become perfect. It’s a journey, instead, that invites you to walk towards yourself with a loving embrace.

Holding all parts of us makes us feel whole again. Loving all of who we are makes us feel worthy again. It was all already there—here—we just fragmented ourselves from ourselves.

Spiral in. The most precious thing in the world is already within you. You just have to make space for quiet so that you can listen. You have to stay still so you can feel. You have to be present so that you can receive the wonder and beauty of who you truly are, and who you’ve always been.

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Loving you from afar,

Corinne

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Our culture still holds so much shame around our humanity. I see even in the “self-growth” and spiritual community, this language around ‘getting rid of,’ ‘competing against,’ ‘winning over’ certain aspects of our human selves. From my experience, I don’t find this helpful nor productive.

There are no parts to get rid of. If we’re fighting against, or competing with, certain aspects of ourselves, we’re in battle with ourselves. We’re in separation, fragmentation and in conflict. How can we then feel whole?

The moment we judge an aspect, we’re in conflict with it and all our energy goes towards that fight. I’ve found the quickest way to healing and wholeness (which we already are, we just keep fragmenting ourselves every time we segregate a part of ourselves from ourselves) is by walking towards our pain, sadness and fear, warmly embracing them, allowing them to sit safely in the lap of love.

Love is the ultimate alchemist, we just need to hold the very thing we want to get rid of. Because really, all these aspects are, are scared, younger parts of us that have spent a large part of our life being rejected, abandoned or ignored.

The fastest way to heal is to walk towards and to let go of judgment. When we embrace all of ourselves, we feel free, confident, capable. We stand in our vulnerability and feel its power not its misconstrued weakness. We feel comfortable in our own skin vs insecure. We are at home.

You don’t need to be ashamed of your humanity. You’re meant to be human and being human means you’ll have all sorts of emotions. You’ll be sensitive. You’ll feel vulnerable. Guess what? It’s all normal. So if you want to step towards wholeness, stop being ashamed of your humanity and start embracing it, instead.

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Loving you from afar,

Corinne

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It’s not easy to change and evolve ourselves because when we evolve, we might find ourselves outgrowing the old and familiar. It’s one of the reasons people don’t do the inner work, or are afraid to, because maybe they begin to resonate less with their friends or environment. Or maybe they go home to their family and their parents trigger all the old ways, patterns and habits. They’re afraid of losing the familiar which feels safe because it’s known.

When we evolve ourselves and step into our new, more authentic Selves, old environments can be challenging and even painful because our new Self has to confront our old self. It’s a difficult part of the process of growth.

In this episode I talk about how to be with that confrontation in real time. How to not attach to the old story. And how to stay true to our authentic Self along the way.

Things might need to adjust. Some people will fall away as new ones will arrive into our lives. Our relationships might need reevaluating and evolving. The way we show up with our parents might need changing, too. But staying safe in the closed bud of our familiar self won’t lead us to the freedom, peace and happiness we’re seeking. We have to find the courage to walk home to ourselves, trusting that the more we choose our true Self, that only good things can come from it.

It’s not always easy, I won’t lie. So doing the inner work, tending to your body, feelings and emotions and knowing how to self-soothe, is of utmost importance.

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Loving you from afar,

Corinne

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We often have ideas, concepts and expectations of what we think life should look like. It’s often in those hard defined ideas that we experience suffering because most every expectation is followed by disappointment.

We create ideas because it gives us a false sense of safety. That we’re taking the undefinable, unknown that is the future, and trying to make it known by predicting what it should be and look like.

But rather than trying to control and define it in order to give us the illusion of safety, what if we trusted the unknown?

The invitation is to get comfortable sitting in the metaphoric dark room, in the silence, allowing the unknown to unfold and surprise us. Because the void is the source of all creation and sound only can come out of silence. So we’re learning how to sit here with ourselves without the critic and the judgment we often find ourselves having an internal battle with.

The invitation is to be here now with love. Profoundly trusting that when you let go of the ideas and concepts of what you’re life, or day even, should look like, you get to experience the incredible synchronicities and flow that life naturally presents to you when you let go of trying to control it.

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Loving you from afar,

Corinne

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You’re not your identity, nor are you all the beliefs and stories you’ve unconsciously made and believed yourself to be. It sounds odd because we get ‘identified’ with our identity, right? We think we are our behaviour, our beliefs, our anxieties and our fears. But really who you truly are, is an essence, the rest is learnt and sometimes even made up.

Just like we attach ourselves to our identity because it feels familiar, and therefore safe, we equally project onto our lives what life should look like and how it should unfold. I chuckle at the 5 year and 10 year plan because as the saying goes: “How do you make God laugh? You tell him your plans.”

We run into suffering when we expect ourselves and life to be a certain way. We suffer when we take things personally and over identify with our feelings. We equally meet suffering when we expect life to be a certain way and then find ourselves disappointed, ashamed or self-blaming if it doesn’t turn out in the exact way we thought it would. We wonder where we went wrong.

So much of this work is around building self-awareness so that we can differentiate what is our true essence, and what is the identify we’ve attached ourselves to that we believe (falsely) to be our true self.

It comes down to learning the map of who you are. The language of who you are. A place of self-knowing and a gnosis that allows you to truly tune into yourself and the current of life that you’re riding upon. When we can rest in that place, we trust more, let go more and ride the wave with less resistance. And the simplicity of that connection to your higher self and to life, is a beautiful, magical and liberating one.

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Loving you from afar,

Corinne

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In this episode I share a story that placed me at the edge of danger, on the corners of a dark shadow, that though it did scare and shock me, also brought me great insight into, perhaps, the art of truly living. Truly trusting. Truly letting go and allowing my Higher Self to guide the way.

I’ve long since believed in, and guided individuals through, embracing our fear. The only way out is through. When we face our fears, and profoundly trust our greater being, we’re able to return home to who we authentically are. And when we cut the noose from our necks that fear holds a grip on, we’re liberated. When we break through the illusion of control that fear has on us, we’re free. And there’s nothing like being on the edge of danger that will invite you to truly trust, let go and be guided by what is greater than just your human self.

This is the school of life. A place for our soul to journey and grow through various lessons. All things, all experiences, all beings deserve the chance to be heard, seen and understood. And when we do these things with presence, we fall into greater flow, greater ease and trust, as we ride this sometimes crazy adventure, that is called life.

Loving you from afar,

Corinne

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