In this mini-episode, our first Tool Box Edition, we introduce you to a practical tool that has served us as a guiding star as well as many others—the Desire List. We guide you step by step in creating your own desire list, an exercise that illuminates your deepest yearnings with clarity and intention.
Join us in this desire list practice, whether you're a newcomer to the concept or a seasoned explorer of the Desire path, and let the potent act of acknowledging and articulating your desires be a catalyst for personal growth and fulfillment.
If you'd like to practice creating your desire list, while in connection, join us, on February 8th 2024 from 7:00-8:00pm est for our virtual event, click the link and register for, Desire Discovery Hour https://events.humanitix.com/desire-as-medicine
In this mini-episode, our first Tool Box Edition, we introduce you to a practical tool that has served us as a guiding star as well as many others—the Desire List. We guide you step by step in creating your own desire list, an exercise that illuminates your deepest yearnings with clarity and intention.
Join us in this desire list practice, whether you're a newcomer to the concept or a seasoned explorer of the Desire path, and let the potent act of acknowledging and articulating your desires be a catalyst for personal growth and fulfillment.
If you'd like to practice creating your desire list, while in connection, join us, on February 8th 2024 from 7:00-8:00pm est for our virtual event, click the link and register for, Desire Discovery Hour https://events.humanitix.com/desire-as-medicine
Welcome to Desire as Medicine. We are two very different women living a life led by Desire inviting you into our world. I'm Brenda.
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I'm a devoted practitioner to being my fully expressed true self in my daily life. Motherhood relationships and my business Desire has taken me on quite a ride, and every day I practice listening to and following the voice within.
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I'm a middle school teacher turned coach and guide of the feminine, and I'm Catherine, devoted to living my life as the truest and hopefully the highest version of me. I don't have children. I've never been married. I've spent equal parts of my life in corporate as in some down and low shady spaces. I was the epitome of tired and wired and my path led me to explore Desire. I'm a coach, guide, energy worker and a forever student, Even after decades of inner work.
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We are humble beginners on the mat, still exploring, always curious. We believe that listening to and following the nudge of Desire is a deep spiritual practice that helps us grow.
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On the Desire as Medicine podcast. We talk to each other, we interview people we know and love about the practice of Desire, bringing in a very important piece that is often overlooked being responsible for our desire.
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Welcome listeners to Desire as Medicine. This is Brenda, and I'm here with my co-host, Catherine Navarro.
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Hey, brenda, so happy to be here today so great to see you.
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We are so excited. Today is a very special edition of Desire as Medicine. We are bringing you a very new toolbox edition. It is a mini episode with tools and practices to help you play with Desire, and today is our first one. So today's practice we're just going to dive right in is a Desire list. A Desire list is a list of all of your desires small, big and everything in between and we're going to walk you through today how to do this practice, and then we also have an invitation for you at the end, before we dive in. Catherine, is there anything you want to add to that?
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Yes, I'm super excited for the thing that we are giving our listeners today and I want to share that. It's not our original teaching. Many teachers and communities have practiced this before us and I feel very blessed to have been introduced to this myself and so happy to hear you describe it for our listeners.
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Thank you for putting that in the room. So, desire list. Maybe you have made many desire lists in your life. Maybe you've never even thought about what desires you even have, or maybe you're somewhere in the middle. Wherever you are, this is a practice that you can do if you're brand new or you've been on the desire path for many years. I personally do this practice a lot, and Catherine does as well.
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So very important to make a desire list. My biggest recommendation is to set some intentional time for yourself. It could be five minutes, 10 minutes, it could be any amount of time that you feel that you have. You're going to hopefully you have quiet with no interruptions. That's what I recommend. I like to sometimes sit in my bedroom, light a candle, make a cup of tea, maybe put on my favorite bathrobe, maybe take a bath before. These are all extras, they're not necessary. You can just get a piece of paper and start writing. Maybe also if you're a busy mom or your house is busy and you just aren't home, you can get in your car, you can go anywhere. I sometimes like to sit by the water or in nature and make my desire list. So there's really no right or wrong way to do it. The idea is to do it. So, the very least, set a timer for five minutes and just start writing. So that's really the practice.
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What is it that you desire? Just start writing what you desire Really tap into your heart, feel into your body. And what is it that you want in this life? I desire the sun on my face. I desire a puppy. I desire a steak dinner. I desire to speak the truth. I desire to listen to my intuition. I desire deep friendships. Whatever it is that you want in your life, these can be really small, like I want an egg white omelet for breakfast, or it could be really big, like I want a new job or committed partnership. Anything could go on your desire list, catherine, anything that you want to add to that.
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The thing that comes to mind for me right now is sometimes we're afraid to say our desires because we don't want to be let down that we don't have it, or we think we can't, or not the version of ourselves that could have it, or it feels too big, it's too much of a step, it's too much of a stretch, something like that, and I want to encourage our listeners that that's okay. A desire list doesn't mean you have to do it. So if you have jumped out of an airplane on your desire list but you're afraid of heights maybe that's not the one you start with. Like you get to have it on your list, you don't have to go and jump right If you have. You want to be a great public speaker. It doesn't mean that you have to go and do improv that evening. Like we don't have to 100% take action on the desire list.
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Part of the desire list is to have like a sneak peek for ourselves of what we want. Like Brenda said sun on my face, like that always feels good, right, but jump out of a plane. That may not always feel good, exhilarating, but who knows? You know, depending on where you're at and the purpose of the desire list, whether it's five minutes or you give yourself more time, whether you write it down on paper I desire, I desire or potentially even do an audio note to yourself where you say I desire sun on my face, I desire to jump out of a plane, I desire to speak in front of a thousand people.
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Whatever that list is For me, the way I use it in my life is that I want it to get me fired up. I want to feel into the space of possibility, not necessarily feel into the space of reality or feel it into the space of practicality. The desire list is for us to feel into what is possible and potentially touch on something that we didn't know before about ourselves, that we wanted, or maybe, as we're writing, something can come into the space with us and you're like oh wow, I didn't realize this was something that I really wanted or that I wanted or that I desire. But it does not have to go into fruition Like we're still sovereign beings and we don't have to say yes to everything that's on the list, right, brenda?
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Do you want to jump out of a plane, Catherine? You talk about that one a lot.
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I definitely want to jump out of a plane, do you really? Yeah, but I really like adrenaline things, like I love roller coasters, I love if I could be in an NZ500, go karts, motorcycles, that would be all me all day. I love that.
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This is just another way that we're very different.
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You can have it.
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Thank you.
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OK yeah, this is great, and I love how you talked about doing it on audio as well. There's so many different ways to do this. I love to put it in my journal. It could also just be on a napkin if you're out at a restaurant, you could just jot your desires down. It's so fun to write your desires.
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I sometimes find my desire lists in various places. If I'm cleaning out a drawer or I open up an old pocketbook that I haven't used in a while, I very often find desire lists in there, and it's so great to open that up. I always put the date on it too, so I know when I wrote it and to see what was it that I wanted in 2005 or 2020, what did I desire then? Who was I then? And sometimes I will actually have some of the desires that were on that list, and some of them maybe not, and some of them maybe I'm still holding, and some of them maybe I don't want anymore because we do change. But I find it really exciting to do that and it's just a beautiful way to back yourself and, like you said, it's not about having it necessarily. It's just about giving yourself permission to want it.
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Is that what you mean when you say back in yourself that you're giving yourself permission to want it?
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Yes, exactly, yeah, and it's also a beautiful way to really honor who you truly are, because your desires are so personal to who you are and it gets it out of your head. You don't have to be swimming and thinking about it all the time. Gets it out of your head, grounds it on paper and then you can let it go. You could just let it go. Maybe you rip it up and you put it in a fire, maybe you set it out in the ocean, or maybe you're like me and you just keep it. And sometimes I've hung my desire list up also, and that I really love too, because it reminds me when I forget, because we sometimes do forget our desires. And I look at my desire list and I see, oh, this is the truth of who I am, this is what I want in my life.
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That sounds really beautiful. Do you have a specific place where you hang it up?
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I have a vision board and I have a big Bolton board that holds my vision board, and so sometimes I'll put desire lists on there, and my vision board is also another way to make a desire list, but this is a little bit different. We're actually talking about writing, where a vision board has more images.
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I love that. I normally write my desires and just rip it up. Usually it's just a page or maybe three pages. I give myself five minutes or less Sometimes. Audio Audio is usually the best way for me, but I can see, as you're talking about it, the benefit of having it and seeing them in post-production, let's say Post-writing that desire list and saying how much of this is still me, how much do I still want this or not. It feels like a really beautiful thing to bump into. It's almost like finding a dollar is how it sounds.
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I love that, it really is. And the last thing I want to say, as I'm really getting from this conversation, is there's really no right way to do it. Whether you keep it and hang it up or stuff it in your pop a book, or put it in the fire or do it on audio, or do it for five minutes or for an hour, the point is to do what works for you so you can do the practice.
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I 100% agree. There is no right or wrong way to do the practice. And when we say the practice basically means you coming face to face with your desires. Whether it's written or audio, whether it's one minute, five minutes, half an hour, hour, it's just a practice. It's you practicing, feeling into what it is that you want. I remember a version of me that if I were to be asked you know, what do you want at this juncture in your life, I was in so much fight, flight, survival that that was nowhere near on my mind. And if I would have known this practice back then I'm thinking of myself in my late teens this probably would have had me connect to myself so much faster this practice can be, so connecting.
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So, dear listeners, this is me formally inviting you to come join me and Brenda this Thursday, february 8th, at 7 pm EST. There will be a Humanity link in the show notes. We would love to have you so that we can practice. You can practice with us, you can learn this practice in community and, as Brenda says, give yourself permission to have it with this list. If you can't make this Thursday, no need to worry, we will have a few more times to join us it will be the second Thursday of every month, so our next meet will be March 14th at 7 pm. Thank you so much everyone who has listened. Thank you, brenda, for doing such a great job of describing the practice. And this, I think, ends our short episode of Tools, our first drop of tools and practices to play with your desire.
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Thank you for joining us on the Desire is Medicine podcast.
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Desire invites us to be honest, loving and deeply intimate with ourselves and others. You can find our handles in the show notes. We'd love to hear from you, you.
