In this episode, we have invited Olivia Fermi, a counselor, coach, teacher, and writer. Her natural gift is to help people heal and release limiting patterns. Olivia has 20 years of experience in her expertise. Today, Olivia guides and explains the specific things that she does and how does it help people to heal. What is spirituality? [00:36] The latest definition that Olivia heard was that spirituality is our humanness. There is something so human and grounded about spirituality. Being able to connect different philosophies, sciences, and ways of being altogether to make it sound like one whole unit. The Diamond Approach [02:31] It was started by a man from Kuwait named Hamida Lee. When he was 18, he wanted to understand the universe, but then he started going to different spiritual teachers and he jumped out of physics and went into spiritual development and personal development. And the heart of the diamond approach is inquiry. It's like at this moment, what am I experiencing? [05:19] It's like embodied listening. So when we sense in our body, it's like how we know where we are in space. How does Olivia’s grandfather create an impact on how she sees the world? [09:54] Olivia’s grandfather did the first credible theory of the week. He was poking around without him. It was like bombarding them and breaking them apart and doing all these things. That's how Olivia ended up working on the Manhattan project. In their family, he was like a god, and he and Rachel Carson who started the environmental movement in the United States were like the two gods in their family. [11:04] When Olivia discovered the diamond approach and inquiry, she wanted to bring it back out into the world. Thoughts on Blockchain [15:47] With blockchain, everything is transparent. Everything gets recorded. So you can't manipulate systems, you can't manipulate money. Every transaction that you make is going to be linked to your own mark in the blockchain. With blockchain, we're more protected because data is private. [21:13] As a collective, we usually start acting on when things actually end up getting worse. Our governance systems are so clunky. When you talk about blockchain and the speed of it and the VI, the vision of it is that it's responsive and quick and gets rid of intermediaries. So we need the equivalent of that in governance in how we govern ourselves so that when there's an issue, we're not just kind of trying to lobby our delegate to do what we want. First step to maximize yourselves to your fullest potential [26:15] If we let all that go, it's really looking within. It comes back to the inquiry or that proprioceptive dialogue. [31:24] The way that you let yourself notice. Your arms and legs, you just gently allow sound. [37:52] When we get in touch with our emotional intelligence, like the stuff that is going on underneath suddenly starts to just surface. And once it surfaces, you pay attention to it. [40:51] There's a man named Eugene Gamblin that people can look up. He developed focusing, and it's where you sense your body to find what's going on. And through his work, they actually did some studies and they found that in counseling when people have a felt sense, they're more likely to succeed in counseling than if it's just talking. What is it that draws Olivia to counseling? [42:27] Olivia feels like in another life, she’d totally be a therapist. [47:10] It's not like you have to be totally healed to be a counselor. You have to be healed enough so that you're aware. Does Olivia feel in communication with people during their transition into death or after that? [52:35] For Olivia, it's been after and she talked to some people where it's more like during the transition, but it's always been after. Follow Olivia Website: https://fermi.ca Blog: https://medium.com/our-blossoming-matters Instagram: @olivia_fermi
