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4 Types of Knowing • Reclaim a Full Set of Knowing

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We know about working smarter, not harder. Still we schlep molten boulders up the mountain. We know about self-care. Still we throw ourselves on the fire to keep everyone else warm.

Whyyyyyy?!? 😫

Because mind-knowing isn't sufficient. We need a full set of mind, heart, body and soul knowing to truly Know, capital 'K' know.

the 4 Types of Knowing

Mind-
Knowing

🧠

Learned
conceptual
understanding

 

Heart-
Knowing

💖

Felt
emotional
comprehension

 

Body-
Knowing

👣

Lived
visceral
experience

 

Soul-
Knowing

⭐️

Re-membered
universal
truth

 


Reading a pregnancy book 🧠 is very different from pushing a human out of your body 👣, which is different from consciously raising that human 💖, which is different from preventing the full erasure of self ⭐️ .


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 lifted, 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
🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢


Discerning The 4 Types of Knowing

MIND
🧠

Learned
conceptual
understanding

HEART
💖

Felt
emotional
comprehension

BODY
👣

Lived
visceral
experience

SOUL
⭐️

Re-membered
universal
truth

Accumulates Into

🧠 + 🧠 + 🧠
=
Knowledge
💖 + 💖 + 💖
=
Compassion

👣 + 👣 + 👣
=
Wisdom

⭐️ + ⭐️ + ⭐️
=
Illumination

Originates From

Environment

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Outside in


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Outside in

Relationships

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Outside In


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Inside Out

Practice

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Inside out


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Outside in

Everywhere

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Inside out


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Outside in

Associated with

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Wind

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Water

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Earth

icon-element-fire-EL

Fire

Impermanence

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Fleeting

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Semi-permanent

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Permanent
(unless uprooted)

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Permanently evolving

Learning Difficulty

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icon-4know-difficulty-high

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(Depends on SoulQ)

Control Over Learning

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If no access to education ⤵︎

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(You can't control other people)

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If kinesthetically Gifted ⤵︎

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WIth Trauma ⤵︎

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(Can't control speed of healing)

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(None)

 

Learning Time

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Years

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Decades

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An Entire Lifetime

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Multiple Lifetimes

Impact

Very limited Semi-limited Limited Unlimited

Feels like

🤯 😭
🫠

Reclamation Practices

Parts Integration
Emotional Intelligence (EQ)

Grief Autopsy
Narrative Medicine

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.

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Unlike Humpty Dumpty, I slowly and painstakingly put myself back together again. ⤵︎

Challenge • Lifetime of shame  ⤳⤳  Full Set • Worthiness
🧠 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
🧠 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
🧠 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"?)


If you need expansive, uplifting and fun as f*ck support to reclaim your full sets, hop over to our Unleash Your Freedom Enrollment Options and book a Clarity Session.

Live fierce and free,

xo, Ella

(First Published Jun 19, 2019)

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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.