Showing Up Whole

The Choice to Show Up Whole

• Christina Fletcher • Season 5 • Episode 5

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Navigating the space between our human experience and spiritual essence demands a choice; one that we make not once, but every single day.

In today's episode, Christina explores the transformative power of consciously choosing to show up whole in a world that often encourages us to fragment ourselves.

What does it mean to make "the choice" of spiritual awareness?

 It's about acknowledging that you're a spiritual being having a human experience and consciously plugging into universal energy.
 Unlike habits that become automatic, there's something energetically profound about declaring "I choose this now," gathering your scattered energy and directing it toward alignment.
This simple yet powerful act creates a fundamental shift in how you experience life.

The greatest barrier to making this choice isn't lack of knowledge or spiritual practice; it's fear. The fear of not belonging keeps many of us living half-lives, dimming our light to fit into social expectations. 

Christina examine this "wall of fear" that separates us from authentic living and discover what waits on the other side: increased clarity, more effortless problem-solving, reduced anxiety, and a profound sense of universal support that far outweighs conditional belonging.

Making the choice to live from your whole self doesn't require elaborate rituals or extensive spiritual knowledge. It begins with simple intentions: "I choose you, Universe. I choose love. I choose wholeness." These declarations create space for divine guidance to flow more freely into your experience, transforming life from something you endure to something deliciously "juicy" you savor.

Have you made the choice today? Share how you're choosing to show up whole by tagging @SpirituallyAwareLiving on social media or emailing Christina@SpirituallyAwareLiving.com.

Meanwhile, grab Christina's new Spiritual Sleep Solution Bundle while it's still free right here. 

Christina Fletcher is a Spiritual Alignment coach, energy worker, author, speaker and host of the podcast Showing Up Whole.
She specialises in practical spirituality and integrating inner work with outer living, so you can get self development off of the hobby shelf and integrated as a powerful fuel to your life.

Through mindset, spiritual connection, intuitive guidance, manifestation, and mindfulness techniques Christina helps her clients overcome overwhelm and shame to find a place of flow, ease, and deep heart-centered connection.
Christina has been a spiritual alignment coach, healer and spiritually aware parent coach for 7 years and trained in Therapeutic Touch 8 years ago. She is also a meditation teacher and speaker.
For more information please visit her website www.spirituallyawareliving.com

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And hello, welcome back to Showing Up Whole, the place where we discuss alignment in mind, body, heart and spirit in every aspect of our lives. I am excited to be back to recording. It has been a very long time. There's been a few tech issues, a few different ways of wanting to do things. Mainly, one of them was to also have some videos, so that way then you can always pop over to YouTube and watch the videos of these podcast episodes in real time without just seeing the audio. So that's something that we're working on and it looks like we might have developed that. So here we are Today.

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I want to talk a little bit about what's been going on, but mainly my new passionate focus on the simple development and understanding of the choice, the choice we all have to make to be spiritually aware, and the choice to show up whole. And so here we go. What is the choice? The choice, the choice, the choice. You know as a little bit of a package to why this might seem like a new way of seeing this and also why this might not seem like a new way of seeing this at all. If you've been listening to my work for a long period of time about two months ago probably haven't done an episode here for about that time, about two months ago how to really even though I've written other books in the past really developing a more nuanced idea of what a book can do and how it can move you and every other reader and myself forward. I got to listen to some phenomenal speakers, including Kyle Gray and Sonia Shoukay and Rebecca Campbell Just a beautiful, magical experience of immersing myself in the world of self-development as we know it. It's always an interesting thing when you have your own personal journey and then all of a sudden, you're in a room of 200 people who are also on their personal journeys. It really helps you feel at one with other people and at the same time, it also gives you a little bit more clarity on your own journey itself more clarity on your own journey itself. I'd like to think that the membership program of Energy Reset Circle actually does this on a different scale, on a different level for the members there, that they all know that they are their own individual on their own individual journeys and, at the same time, that they are developing their own path with other people as well.

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Anyway, that's a little side note. It gave me a lot to think about, and I think that's why I haven't been doing episodes in so many ways. I think I've taken a step back to process how that experience expanded and moved me. At the same time, I've been doing now work on my book, which is really focused and I might as well tell you this is really focused on the choice, the choice of showing a pole. So, as this relaunch, relaunch, relaunch, relaunch, which we do so often on this show, because we go with flow, right, we listen to the nudges of the experience here and so, yeah, sometimes this podcast is not as normal and regular as I would like it to be, but that's just how we coast. There is.

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I wanted to bring in the idea of the choice. And how do you choose? Here's the thing about choosing spiritual development, choosing self-development, choosing to show up whole as yourself. The thing that always surprises, delights, has me in awe is the fact that we actually make that every single day. It's not a one and done.

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Making the choice to be true to yourself actually has to take place every single day. Now. It takes place every single time you get on the yoga mat. It takes place every single time you sit down for meditation. It takes place every single time you plug into the universe, in however way that is. It takes place every single time you plug into the universe in however way that is, but it still is that choice of stepping in to whatever is going to make you feel wholer in yourself. That's a powerful thing and I think often we forget that nuanced moment. You know meditation may be in your routine. You know it may be so embedded in your neural pathways, so embedded in your daily pattern that you don't actually notice that you are actually making that choice.

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Yet I actually believe that when you make a choice, when you actually make a choice, when you actually set the intention and say I am choosing this, now I am choosing the universe, now I am choosing my heart, now I am choosing to show up whole. Now Something happens Energetically. You gather all of your energy from all that scatteredness and you drive it forward. That excites me. That's when I actually see the different forms of alignment that comes in with people. You know we do get used to things, we get used to habits, we get used to the oh got to go meditate. Oh, I got to go make sure I light my candle before I start this. Oh, I got to make sure I do my practice. But habit is different than a choice. But habit is different than a choice and to me there's, there's this extra power that comes when you make a choice, when you choose to choose to show up whole, okay.

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So what is the choice we're talking about? Right, what does that even mean? Because, again, we get so used to words, we get so used to concepts and talking about different things that can easily get watered down or, again, habitual. So what is the choice we're talking about? The choice we're talking about is knowing that you are a spiritual being, knowing that you are having a human experience, knowing that there are these two parallel perspectives that happen at all times, knowing that, in the human form, sometimes you can get caught up in stresses and tensions and challenges and reactive, and you can feel that energy build up within you which feels hyperactive, which feels rather adrenaline-y. You can feel the emotional charge that permeates through you when you are in a panicked, disconnected space.

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And then you choose to also explore the other angle, the grounded version of you, the whole version of you. It's when you allow all of the energy that who you, of who you are, to flow all the way through you and fill you up. And with that whole version of you, you also have an understanding that it's not just you, it is your essential essence for sure, it is your energy for sure. And then, beyond that, that is also plugged in to spiritual source, that is plugged into something far greater than you. It's like the whole idea of the drop of the ocean right, there's you as the drop which is infused with all your energy, and then there is this greater version of yourself. And that greater version not even of just of yourself, it's of all that is. So, call it God, call it source, call it universe. There's also your angels within there and different frequencies of different beings within that. There's your ancestors, there's your guides. And when you plug in to your whole spiritual source, you let in the version of you, of who you really are, and then you also let in the help and support of all that isness.

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So when you have that perception, suddenly the stresses of the human life experience takes on a different angle and suddenly you find that you are more open to solutions, you're more curious, you're more in flow. Suddenly it's like you board a raft and it kind of carries. You're more curious. You're more in flow, suddenly you board. It's like you board a raft and it kind of carries you down the river rather than you pushing and pushing and pushing for solutions fast.

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There's a choice of which perception you actually take on. You know, years ago, when I first started my business and I started calling it spiritually aware parenting when I was a parent coach, and now it's spiritually aware living, I always have said that the focus isn't on the word spiritual, the focus is on the word aware choices you will make as you walk the path of showing up whole. Your first choice is always that of awareness. It is tapping in to the awareness that there is more, that you have a spiritual perspective. Does it mean that you will see it through those eyes all the time? Absolutely not, absolutely not. You will have numerous times that you forget or that you will not be able to find the essence again. However, you will have the awareness that it does exist, and that is the first stage of the choice. The choice is that you are choosing to be aware. You are choosing to understand that there is more than this physical being being. So how do you make it? How do you make that choice? How do you know when you've made it, how? Why is it that so often it doesn't really matter how many years you've actually made that choice. You still have to make it every day because sometimes you choose not to choose. And what does that feel like actually, when you've made that choice?

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There's so many different ways that we can actually put this under a microscope. Isn't there when you actually ask yourself why do we skim over this choice when we go to the book aisle in your bookstore for self-development or when you go to look at spiritual practices? Right, you know you can look at the range of of pathways spirituality can take you from everything from the energy work to the spiritual connection work, to the guides, to the healings, to the frequencies, to the downloads, to the angels, to all of this juicy magic that is wonderful and fun to explore. Yet I've actually found that if you aren't making the choice to really allow that to drop into you, if you're not making the choice of actually saying I'm choosing to see from my whole perspective, I'm choosing my inner light to be my guide, I'm choosing to listen to my spiritual source, so often everything else on those layers become like it just becomes in your head. It becomes little pathways that you go oh, that's kind of neat, that's cool, I want to learn about that, I want to study that, I want to. It becomes an intellectual pursuit rather than embodied in your knowing. Every single person has the knowing deep down within themselves. You have to choose to dig down to find the gold, but it's in there and that feels deeper and more profound.

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Sometimes clients will come to me and they feel really overwhelmed because they feel like if they have to go on the spiritual, if they want to live, if they want to choose spiritual living, then they have to study all this stuff and they have to learn all this stuff and they have to understand all this stuff. And I always remind them that it's really not the truth. I always remind them that it's really not the truth. The truth is that you are a spiritual being. You already are. You're having a human experience. The human experience has made you forget who you are because we get caught up in all the layers. So rather you're choosing to relearn yourself. You're choosing to listen to yourself and to tap into yourself, rather than choosing to go down all of these rabbit holes of what you don't know. That's a big difference. So where do you begin Once you've made the choice, once you've made the choice of saying actually, yes, I want to live from that deeper version of myself.

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Yes, I want to choose to not be in a reactive mode and also I want to choose to not always be pulled in all directions by what I feel I should be doing from other people. Instead, I choose. I choose to go in deep into my heart and show up as her. We have not got time to actually talk about the different things that hold us back from that, but I will tell you this what will make you choose to not and I always laugh because it is a question of choosing not to choose what will honestly make you choose not to choose is basically fear, the fear of not belonging, because when you're being true to yourself and not living by other people's expectations, what does that mean? The fear of not knowing if you'll scare yourself. There's a number of different fears that come up when we actually want to make the choice to choose, listening to our hearts, and that's an important thing to be honest with yourself about. It's also really important to know that, in fact, when you do choose to listen to yourself, you will feel so much more like yourself that you will find a new sense of belonging on the other side of that. Okay, more about that in one second. I'm just going to grab a drink. I know how.

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Okay, so where are we? We are in a space of saying that there's this choice. The choice to show up whole isn't about all the things that you're doing outside of you and living up to some kind of having the awareness of who you really are. And from that choice we look at why we don't choose, and that is often from the fear, the true fear, of not belonging, meaning that you know what. You've been spending a good part of your life trying to fit in. So, suddenly, by listening to yourself, that means actually releasing all the work you've made and done to fit in and instead letting that go and reclaiming the parts of yourself that you've had to shave down or hide or dim because it's time for you to be you. That can be intimidating and to me, that is one of the strongest reasons why people choose not to choose. So it's important to look at yourself and actually ask yourself what that means and doing that for yourself. Here's a little test In order to actually look at making the choice.

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The main thing to explore is how you make the choice. You've set the intention. You've told yourself I'm choosing to be true to myself, instead of feeling like that's just where you leave it and you go about your regular day, take the extra step of doing one small thing that explores choosing your whole self. I was walking out into our orchard today and I literally just looked up at the sky and I just told myself yeah, I choose you. It was such a beautiful experience. It was just such a yeah, because I choose you, I choose the universe, I choose love, I choose wholeness, I choose divinity, I choose greatness, I choose light, I choose expansion. Just saying the sentence of it actually allows you to fully assimilate it and embody it into your being. So try that. This is as you.

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If you've watched my work, listened to my work, you know we talk about plugging in. This is plugging in to your spiritual source. It's knowing that there's this massive electric current, this energetic current all around you of the universe and, just like electricity in the walls, you just have to plug in in order to experience it. So plugging in is making the choice. You are saying I am choosing to plug in to the electricity of the universe, and once you've done that, then it turns into a choice of trust. Once you've done that, then it turns into a choice of trust. It's not always that, it's not always down to you to continuing being okay, oh, I have to choose, oh, I have to choose. It's an everyday choice, not an every moment choice, because what you're doing is, when you've plugged into the universe, just like electricity in the walls, you're not continually going wait, did I plug it in right? Did I plug it in right? Do I need to do it again? You're not continually going wait, did I plug it in right? Did I plug it in right? Do I need to do it again? Do I need to do it again? You're not doing that. Instead, what you're doing is you're actually saying I'm plugging in. I know the electricity is now flowing to me, so that minor next choice is to then let it in. You're choosing. Once you've plugged in, you're choosing to allow. You're choosing to let the love flow.

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You'll notice that you start to see things a little differently once you've made that choice. Once you've made that choice, you start to notice that things. Maybe you notice solutions more than you did before. Maybe suddenly things go a little bit better than they did before. Maybe you stop having, you don't feel as irksome, you don't feel as frustrated. You might notice that suddenly something feels a little bit more settled within you. And then the next morning you choose again, you plug in again, you allow the universe to know that you are waving a big sign that says hello, I am ready to be fully present with you.

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The choice is in that, that first plugging in that connection, that knowing, and then the choice is in the receiving. It's not just simplicity at its best, isn't it really just this beautiful unfolding? Where you go, I am coming forward, I am making the choice to connect to my greatest self and within that then, as soon as I've made that choice, I know, I have faith, I trust that then that love is going to flow and I choose to let it, I choose to let. The well-being in those two sentences are a really strong foundation for that choice, that beginning choice. So how does it feel once you've made that? Does it feel once you've made that?

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You know, years ago I remember I set a word of the year and it was just juiciness. And I remember just being like I want my year to be juicy. I just want to like sink my teeth into it, and it's something that's always kind of been playful in my head and I was thinking about it. I was like you know, actually, when you are plugged in and when you've made the choice to dance with the universe, to allow your whole self to step forward, when you allow your energy to be heard, when you choose to listen to your heart, when you choose to listen to your soul guidance, when you choose to see things as so much bigger than they are, when you live like that, life becomes juicy, because it's like there's a wall that you have the fear of not belonging, the fear of being judged, the fear of feeling silly, the fear of your own power, which holds you back from choosing to choose, and you imagine how scary or vulnerable or crazy it might be to actually make that choice. On the other side, also, how isolated.

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I know that that was something that really stuck with me when I was first starting to make the choice. It was this feeling of isolation. It was a feeling of I will have no friends, everyone is going to think that I've lost it, everyone's going to think I'm weird and I will have no one to talk to except my angels. I was really worried about that for a while there, and it was when I finally kind of said well, I'm not living as my whole self on this side of the wall. I'm not living my truth, I'm pretending to be something else and shaving down my edges to fit in with something else. So who are these people that are going to ditch me the minute I actually step forward as myself? And why are these the people I'm scared of losing?

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So then you go to the other side of the wall and you make the choice and you tell yourself don't worry, I don't have to make the choice tomorrow if I don't like it. And then you choose to cross over into this space of authentic alignment and from that place you notice a different tingling. You notice that you feel more present, you notice that you have a deeper sense of clarity, you notice that you can find solutions faster, you notice that you feel free and you notice that you maybe laugh more and you notice that the anxiety isn't there as much because you have angels on your side and you have guides that you can connect with and you feel this loving surrounding that makes you feel safer than the feeling of belonging that you had when you had to pretend to be someone else in order to belong. I'm not going to say it's an easy choice to make all the time. It can be scary and it can feel intimidating and it can feel even hard, but it's not.

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It starts with just choosing to choose. And from choosing to choose it takes making simple choices along the way, starting with plugging in, starting with saying that you're choosing, you choose to plug in, you choose love, you choose your heart, and it's from that space then that suddenly you'll find a shift. So just get curious about it, just be playful with it, just explore and know that as long as you're choosing love and as long as you're choosing light and as long as you are choosing that sense of oh okay, I'm going to find my way home, I'm going to find my way home, then you are safe and in really good hands because you are in the surrounding loving embrace of the universal source. Okay. With that being said, I would love to hear how this feels to you. So you know.

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Comment post on social media. Let me know how are you making your choice? You can always tag me at Spiritually Aware Living at any of the platforms, or drop me an email at Christina at SpirituallyAwareLivingcom, and just let me know how are you making the choice? Are you making the choice? Are you scared of making the choice? How does the choice feel to you? It's lovely to be back with you. I hope you are having a beautiful start of your season and I'm sending you all my greatest love and light.