The Cost of Shrinking Yourself
The hardest part is hiding your light
Aug 30, 2026 · 27 min · 10 segments
We’re right in the middle of it — one of the most intense energetic windows of the year. And if you’ve been feeling unsettled, restless, or like something inside you is quietly shifting… you’re not…
Monika SchusterHost
Let's take a pause here right now because I want to dive here a little bit deeper because we are used to judging things and ourselves immediately, right away.

Again, everything in our life is the effect of causes we set in motion earlier.

So if something's here that you don't like, change it, right? That's what we hear, changes.

We can change it by just doing it differently, Or we can change it to have a look inside and see why the cause has happened.

So, To really understand cause and effect here, we looked for the pattern where in her life had she been allowed someone else or something to put out her energy.

In other words, go back to the two words, the two directions you can change your course, the first one could have been to just could have used a spray to protect yourself from ticks.

And if a tick pulls out my energy, which person in my environment does the same? In other words, where is the mirror to the tick bite in my environment, in my own life? And once you find the mirror in your closest environment, then there won't be a tick bite anymore because you protect yourself, your life, your energy for yourself.

Does it make sense? So in other words, if we want to change an effect in our life, we have to look inward first, how we can shift our attitude, our inner relationship with ourselves.

Let's take a pause here right now because I want to dive here a little bit deeper because we are used to judging things and ourselves immediately, right away.

Again, everything in our life is the effect of causes we set in motion earlier.

So if something's here that you don't like, change it, right? That's what we hear, changes.

We can change it by just doing it differently, Or we can change it to have a look inside and see why the cause has happened.

So, To really understand cause and effect here, we looked for the pattern where in her life had she been allowed someone else or something to put out her energy.

In other words, go back to the two words, the two directions you can change your course, the first one could have been to just could have used a spray to protect yourself from ticks.

And if a tick pulls out my energy, which person in my environment does the same? In other words, where is the mirror to the tick bite in my environment, in my own life? And once you find the mirror in your closest environment, then there won't be a tick bite anymore because you protect yourself, your life, your energy for yourself.

Does it make sense? So in other words, if we want to change an effect in our life, we have to look inward first, how we can shift our attitude, our inner relationship with ourselves.
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