104: New Moon Rituals, Escaping Negative Self Talk and Manifestation Issues

In today’s episode, I answer your questions! We talk about my new moon ritual, where I set my intentions for the month and how to clear your space and your mind for something new. I also answer a question about negative self-talk and how to shut down that voice that stops you from doing new things. And finally, we talk about manifesting things you want and why it isn’t working. This episode is great for anyone who has been listening to the show and has clarifying questions on implementing in their own life or anyone who is tired from the pressure of goals and struggle and wants a new way to live their life. Thanks for listening and sharing with your friends! Transcript: Welcome to the art of living day. I’m your host, Betsy Pake. And this podcast is designed to share interviews and new ideas to help you redefine what could be possible for your life. Now, let’s go live big. Hello, everybody. Welcome to the show this week, I can’t believe it’s already in the middle of May. And anyway, I was putting this together this morning. And I was like, Oh, my gosh, the time is flying. So I want to get to some questions today and today’s episode. And it’s just some questions that people have direct messaged me, like from my stories on Instagram or through Facebook. And so I wanted to see if we can attack a couple of those this morning and maybe get some clarity on some things moving forward. Now, the first one that I want to talk about is, someone asked me what my new moon ritual was. Now, if you follow the moon cycles, or you like have like a general idea of what that is, the New Moon is on the 15th of May this month. And so if you’re listening to this before that you could develop your own new moon ritual, if you’d like. Just knowing that that’s when the new moon is. But if you listen after that there is a new moon every month. So you could do it at any time. So I want to talk about what my new moon ritual is. And I use, I feel like I’m this combination between sort of the spiritual Whoo, and the like, practical brain science stuff of the NLP that I love so much. And so when I think of the moon cycles, and following the moon cycles, I really think of it in terms of not like the moon is actually doing something specifically to help me. But that it’s, I’m using it as a guide. And I’m using it as a natural structure of following through and an ebb and a flow of nature. Right. So when I’m, I’m going to talk about some of the things I do for my new moon ritual, but you’ll start to see that it really is just, I’m setting myself up on a monthly cycle. And that’s how nature moves to write. And so it just makes a lot of sense to me. And it, I have found it just to be a really good way to live my life and live my business and all of that. So, alright, so the new moon, what is the new moon First of all, because when I first started doing this, I was confused about the new moon and the full moon. So there are different moon phases. And the first is the new moon. And that’s actually when it’s black. So you actually wouldn’t really be able to see the moon on a new moon, as opposed to a full moon where you would totally see the whole moon, okay, so they are sort of on opposite ends, 15 days between them. So if you think of like a new moon being at 12 o’clock, a full moon is at six o’clock, okay. So when we start with the new moon, it’s where the moon is actually dark. And then we move into a crescent moon. And that’s when you start to be able to see the little bit of light the crescent moon, then we move to a first quarter moon, you don’t have to remember all this, I’m just sharing it.