4 Types of Knowing • Reclaim a Full Set of Knowing
Human Kintsugi and Reinventing Identities
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Top 3 Epistemological Facts
Doctors know smoking causes lung cancer, yet they smoke anyway. You know workaholism leads to burnout, yet you burn the midnight oil anyway. We know about self-care, yet we keep throwing ourselves on the fire to keep others warm. Whyyyyyy?!? 😫
- Because there are 4 different types of knowing (see table below)
- Because each type of knowing is weighted differently
- Because mind-knowing alone is never sufficient for change and growth
Did you know...?
Epistemology is the art, science and philosophy of human knowing.
Discerning The 4 Types of Knowing
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MIND-KNOWING 🧠 Learned |
HEART-KNOWING 💖 Felt |
BODY-KNOWING 👣 Lived |
SOUL-KNOWING ⭐️ Re-membered |
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ACCUMULATES INTO |
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| 🧠 + 🧠 + 🧠 Knowledge |
💖 + 💖 + 💖 Compassion |
👣 + 👣 + 👣 |
⭐️ + ⭐️ + ⭐️ Illumination |
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FEELS LIKE |
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| 🐇🕳️🤔🐇🕳️🤔🐇🕳️🤔... 🤯 aha | 🌊🏄🏻♀️😭🌊🏄🏻♀️😂🌊🏄🏻♀️😭... 🥹 mmm |
🦴🥊🏋️🦴🥊🏋️🦴🥊🏋️... 😮💨 ouf |
🐣🔥🐦🔥🐣🔥🐦🔥🐣🔥🐦🔥... ✨ ohhh |
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PRIMARY ELEMENT |
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Wind |
Water |
Earth |
Fire |
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LEARNING PERIOD |
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Years |
Decades |
A Lifetime |
Multiple Lifetimes |
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LEVEL OF PERMANENCE |
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Fleeting |
Semi-permanent |
Permanent |
Permanently evolving |
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DEPTH OF IMPACT |
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| Very limited | Semi-limited | Limited | Unlimited |
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LEVEL OF DIFFICULTY |
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(Depends on SoulQ) |
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PRIMARY ORIGIN |
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From Environment
Outside in
Outside in |
From Relationships
Outside In
Inside Out |
From Practice
Inside out
Outside in |
From Everywhere
Inside out
Outside in |
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LEVEL OF CONTROL |
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If no access to education ⤵︎
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(Can't control other people) |
If History of Trauma ⤵︎
(Can't control speed of healing) |
(Can't control the Universe) |
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RECLAMATION PRACTICES |
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Parts Integration Emotional Intelligence (EQ) |
Grief Autopsy |
Tai Chi Somatic Experiencing™ |
Spiritual Intelligence (SoulQ) Karma Clearing |
A Full Set of Knowing
When I embarked on Freedompreneurship, ie entrepreneurship as a spiritual quest to free myself and others, I had no idea I'd be scouring the Earth and my innards for shards of knowing to kintsugi myself back together again. Some knowings I never had - worth, belonging, childhood. Some knowings were smashed to smithereens - safety, self-trust, relevance.
Unlike Humpty Dumpty, I slowly and painstakingly put myself back together again. ⤵︎
| Challenge • Lifetime of shame ⤳⤳ Full Set • Worthiness |
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| 🧠 | Equine therapy horse bit me for me to mind-know I had no self-worth and needed to get some |
| 💖 | Brené Brown's TEDx Talk pierced my heart-knowing with image of "I am enough", cried for weeks |
| 👣 | When my feet touched the ground after ropes course, my bones knew that I matter. It was a first! |
| ⭐️ | On route to funeral, scarcity pebbles lifted off my ribs, the barriers to worthiness finally lifted off my soul |
Get a glimpse of how the brave women in our Phoenixsphere are working toward collecting full sets of knowing. ⤵︎
| Challenge • Not having a voice ⤳⤳ Full Set • Self-expression |
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| 🧠 | Someone in my yoga community told me "Your throat chakra seems blocked" and I felt some truth there... |
| 💖 | (tbd...) |
| 👣 | After chronic throat aches and literally losing my voice, signed up for Breathwork and Vipassana, which gave me the guts to howl at the moon and speak up |
| ⭐️ | A friend gifted me a blue stone and every time I hold it, my voice relaxes, it's the strangest thing! |
| Challenge • Fear of being seen ⤳⤳ Full Set • Safety | |
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| 🧠 | Thanks to neuroscience course, I can name that fear as "freeze" response. Every time I teach it, the fear dissolves a bit more. |
| 💖 | Getting trustworthy connection and relational safety and support through somatic coaching |
| 👣 | Non-linear movement practice gets me out of "freeze" response |
| ⭐️ | (tbd... maybe a shaman for intergenerational fear of "Witch burning"?) |
Lasting Behavior Change
Example 1
You know smoking is bad... but you smoke anyway (even if you're a medical doctor).
| 🧠 | 💖 | 👣 | ⭐️ | Behavior Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ✓ | -- |
-- | -- | ⚪️⚪️⚪️⚪️⚪️ |
Example 2
You watched your father die a slow death from lung cancer... and wholeheartedly stopped smoking. When the grief thinned, the smoking resumed.
| 🧠 | 💖 | 👣 | ⭐️ | Behavior Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ✓ | ✓ | -- | -- | 🟢🟢⚪️⚪️⚪️ |
Example 3
You survived brutal lung transplant... so you now live smoke-free, though the mind is still tempted from time to time.
| 🧠 | 💖 | 👣 | ⭐️ | Behavior Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | -- | 🟢🟢🟢🟢⚪️ |
Example 4
In past life regression, you remembered your daughter dying in a freak accident and donated her lungs to you... and you never picked up another cigarette in from here to eternity.
| 🧠 | 💖 | 👣 | ⭐️ | Behavior Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢 |
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Live fierce and free,
(First Published Jun 19, 2019)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Having lived, died and traveled 131 countries, 87 emotions, 16 career reinventions, and 46.5 traumas, Ellany Lea inspires and guides women overachievers, phoenixes, wisdom keepers, and entrepreneurs to free her genius, so it frees the world.
