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From Knowing To Embodiment

 

From Knowing to Embodiment:

Crossing the Gap Between Stuck and Free

 

When knowing still isn’t enough

You can name the fear, the shame, the guilt.
You can name the heaviness and burdens you’ve been carrying quietly for so long.
You can explain the patterns causing them.
You can even teach it to others.

And still… your body reacts like it’s happening right now.

I thought understanding was freedom

I know this place well.

For years, I was convinced that once I understood why I felt a certain way or behaved in certain patterns, I was free from them.

I could map the entire story myself – the childhood period it began, the people involved, the ways it had repeated.
I could talk about it with clarity.

Because I was skilled at this, I could help others see it in themselves. This is why, as I grew up, friends often came to me with their situations.

But then, life would press the same buttons that I thought I had gotten rid of, and my chest would tighten…again.
My breath would shorten…again.
My body would tense and anticipate, as if the danger was still here.

The triggers I knew remain as triggering even after I knew what caused them.

That’s when I learned: the mind can know the truth, and the body can still be living the lie.

This was the beginning of my real journey with transformation.
It truly began when I experienced burnout 17 years ago.
Not the kind of exhaustion I recovered from with a holiday or lighter workload, but a full collapse: body, mind, heart, and soul, all at once.

A true burnout in the deepest sense; one that required me to rebuild myself from the ground up.

The shifts I share here are the same ones that not only helped me rise from that collapse, but have kept me out of it ever since.

Why the mind alone can’t carry us home

Today, I can stand firmly on this truth:
Mental recognition is only the doorway.

Understanding is only the doorway.

Embodiment – living as if the safety, worth, love, or freedom you’ve longed for is already yours – is when the body, the subconscious, and the energetic field all remember together.

When that alignment hasn’t happened yet, your system runs on old programming:

  • The subconscious memory of danger.
  • The energetic imprint of survival.
  • The nervous system’s reflex to protect.

This is why triggers can still grip you, even when you’ve “done the work” in your mind:

  • You can know your value is not tied to your achievements but still feel the pull to overwork so you belong.
  • You can know your identity is more than your job title but still feel unsteady when someone asks, “So, what do you do?”
  • You can know love isn’t meant to hurt but still tense when someone gets close.
  • You can know the past is over but still feel like you’re in it when something reminds you of it.

The other rooms in the house

(Before you read on, take a breath. Let what you’ve already read settle in your body.
You’re remembering something your whole being already knows).

For years, I thought transformation was something I could do entirely in the mind.

If I could just understand it (e.g. name the pattern, trace its roots, see the causes) then I could be free of it.

It’s what so many analytical, intelligent, driven people believe.

  • We read the books.
  • We take the courses.
  • We talk about it with friends.
  • We unpack it with a coach, psychologist, therapist, or counsellor.
  • We collect insights and quote them back with ease.

And yet… the body still tenses.
The chest still tightens.
The breath still shortens.

It’s not because those conversations aren’t valuable. They are.
They can open doors in the mind and soften the heart.

This is the real point: Unless the deeper layers of the body and energy are also met and witnessed, the old reactions stay quietly in place, waiting for the next moment to be triggered.

The gap between knowing and embodiment is real.

Knowing is a mental act. Embodiment is a whole-being shift.

Knowing can happen in a moment.
Embodiment is what happens when your body, energy, and subconscious all live the truth your mind has already understood.

There is a big gap. Most of us aren’t taught or aware that we need to cross it.

That gap creates a quiet skepticism: “If I know this much and I’m still stuck, maybe I can’t change”.

The fact is it’s not that you can’t change.

It’s that you’ve been working in one room of a whole house.

 

Think of yourself like a house.
Your conscious mind is one room – brightly lit, well-decorated, full of books and conversation.

There are other rooms in the house:

  • The physical body, where the nervous system, hormones, and cells store the memory of what you’ve lived.
  • The emotional body, where feelings are felt and often left unfinished.
  • The mental body, where patterns are recognized and stories are told.
  • The energetic body, where imprints, contracts, and old codes live, often before you’re even aware of them physically.
  • And subtler layers still – spiritual, causal – each touching the others.

The conscious mind can shift in a single conversation.
The emotions can move in a moment of release.
But the physical body and the energetic field take longer. They carry the densest memory, and they anchor the change so it lasts.

Walking into these other rooms means you let yourself feel what lives there, tend to it, and bring it into the same state as the rest of you.

Embodiment is when every room in the house holds the same truth so there are no corners of you still living in the past.

None of us are meant to tend to every room in the house alone.
Some rooms are easier to harmonise on our own.

Others may need a steady presence beside us –  someone who knows how to work with the physical, emotional, mental, and energetic layers so the change holds in all of you.

If you find yourself meeting the same patterns again and again, it doesn’t mean you’re failing.

It may mean there’s a layer asking for support in being met, cleared, and brought into harmony with the rest of you.

My journey – from collapse to wholeness

This is how I rose back from burnout and stayed out of it for 17 years by now:

  • I learned to live in all the rooms of “my house”, not just the one called “mind”.
  • I learned to let my body, energy, and subconscious come with me into every shift.
  • I learned that healing is not a one-time event but an ongoing conversation with every layer of who I am and decision I make that impacts it.

If you’re here, you might notice…

You understand yourself, but feel frustrated you still react the same way to a trigger.
You seek more information, hoping the next insight will make the reaction stop.
You feel impatient with yourself for “not being over it yet.”

There is nothing wrong with you.
You are simply living in the space between knowing and embodiment.

You’re midway

There is nothing wrong with you for being in this space.

We have all been here at one time or another in our lives.

This is not a failure.
It is the natural midpoint of transformation.

You have opened the door.
Now your body gets to walk through it, slowly, safely, and fully.

When the whole of you remembers

When your mind, heart, body, energetic systems and soul hold the same truth, something changes:

The trigger that used to debilitate you comes… and your breath stays steady.
The memory surfaces… and your body stays open.
The fear or shame or guilt whispers… and your energy stays anchored.

That’s when you know you’ve crossed the bridge.

You are no longer just knowing.
You are becoming.
You embody.

Let your body feel you here

You don’t need to rush through this moment.

Let yourself land here before you continue.

Your body is not just the vehicle for your mind.
It’s a living archive of everything you’ve ever experienced and it speaks a language of sensation, tension, breath, and rhythm.

When your body feels safe enough to stay open in the presence of a truth, that’s when you know you’ve crossed from knowing into embodiment.

If your mind has met this truth, the next step is to let the rest of you feel it.

I’ve created an audio companion to this transmission, layered with a continuous 396 Hz tone, to help dissolve the fear of feeling and anchor safety in your system.

This isn’t another knowledge to think about. It’s an experience to live in your body.

 

🎧 Listen here:

Through my podcast channel: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4ALtiQa3lkE2J5c7LNsBhu?si=LGPtt0tLRsinOdf0qkraYA

 

Through my online sanctuary (and you can download the audio file there too): https://embodiment.upliftmylife.today/fromknowingtoembodiment

 

It’s my free offer to you and you are welcome to listen to it as often as you wish.
If it meets you deeply and you feel called to offer a gift in return, you’re welcome to do so through here: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/AstutiM

It is highly appreciated.

May this be the period you cross the bridge from knowing to embodiment.
May your body remember the truth your mind has carried for years.
And may you feel the freedom that comes when all of you remembers at once.

With love,

Astuti

💛💜

 

“May the remembrance within you bloom in perfect time.”

 

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Burnout Versus Burning Out

 

Burnout versus Burning Out

Living the difference between depletion and purification

 

There is a difference most of us do not see in burnout.

On the surface, both look like exhaustion – heavy, overwhelming, and final.

One is burnout – a collapse that drains you until nothing remains.
The other is burning out – a purification fire moving through you that empties what is not yours, so your original light can rise again.

 

Seeing the two of them distinctively and clearly is the difference that can set you free.

 

Let me be clear of what I mean when I speak of “the fire”.

The fire is the deep current that moves through your body and energetic field when what is not and no longer yours (patterns, programs, beliefs, repressed and suppressed emotions) begins to leave.
It can feel physical, like exhaustion, heat, pain, tears, waves of grief.
It can feel emotional, like everything you’ve held down rising at once.
It can feel spiritual,  like life itself saying: no more lies and illusions, only truth now.

 

This fire can destroy if resisted, but it purifies if allowed.

The fire I have known

I have known both.

In 2008, I collapsed into burnout. I was emptied by over-responsibility, stripped of joy, carrying so many things what were never mine. I was largely disconnected from myself.

Then, in 2024, I was burning out, so intensely that I felt my body was going to die.

This looked the same with the one in 2008 on the surface – exhaustion, heaviness, many moments of weeping, a sense of physical crushing in my body.

This fire, however, was different than in 2008.

The 2024 one was so much more intense than the fire of the past, but it wasn’t destroying me.

It was burning away the deepest level of many depleting subconscious mind programs, such as…

  • over-responsibility that had once emptied me.
  • the way I kept holding everything together – for myself, for others, for the collective – at the cost of the well-being of my own body.
  • the self-sacrifice that made me give myself away until very little remained.

It was burning through years of suppressed grief, loosening the tears and losses that had stayed burried hidden because “I had to push through”.

It was burning through the survival vows of “I must endure, I must push, I must hold on and stay on my calling and purpose no matter the cost”.

Finally, in 2024, the purification reached the deepest level it could go without destroying the core of my being.

Some of this weight was not mine alone.

Part of what my body was burning out belonged to the collective – ancestral exhaustion, generational heaviness, the residue of humanity’s old scaffolding.

Burnout in 2008 broke me and left me emptied of myself.
Burning out in 2024 emptied me into myself. It purified me, and brought me back home to my original essence.

Two fires, two truths

Burnout is distortion. It is the collapse that comes from giving away your life force until nothing remains.

Burning out is purification. It is the sacred fire that clears distortion from your body and field so your original codes can shine again.

Burnout drains because you pour yourself into distorted programs, like over-giving, proving, self-sacrificing.

Burning out empties because your system is detoxing – purging and flushing out residue, dismantling your inner scaffoldings and others that no longer belong.

What feels like weakness is in truth your nervous system and field restructuring themselves for a higher baseline.

When you see this clearly, the fire no longer feels like an enemy.
One consumes you. The other returns you to yourself.

When you live this difference in your own body, the experience is unmistakable.

How the two feel in your body… and they are different

Burnout feels like dragging yourself through the day, numb and hollow, with no spark left.

Burning out feels like your body crying out no more moving in life out of unexamined habits – demanding rest, forcing you to stop on auto pilot and making decisions.
Through it, you may ache, sleep longer, or feel waves of grief. You may feel like your body is crushing within. Yet beneath the intensity there is a knowing: this is not collapse, this is cleansing.

If you’ve felt bone-deep exhaustion… if your body has cried out and you feared you were failing… know this: you are not alone. Many mistake purification for collapse.

Yet, when you begin to discern the difference, your body itself becomes your teacher, not your betrayer.
When you listen to your body, you will move through this passage intact and much lighter at the end of it.

When burning out turns into burnout

The fire itself is not the danger.

Burning out becomes burnout when you resist it.
When you keep pushing through.
When you cling to what is burning away.
When you mistake purification for failure, and cover it with shame.

Then, the fire cannot cleanse; it can only consume.

The nervous system frays, the body collapses, and burnout takes hold.

This is why so many people feel confused and stuck.

They may already have tried to do something about it, like taking a holiday, seeking therapy, changing routines yet the fire keeps returning.

Often, what they are really doing is trying to put out the fire.

Putting out the fire is seeking temporary relief: taking an extended holiday but returning to the same patterns, numbing or distracting, or receiving support that only manages symptoms.

These soothe in the moment, but they don’t let the fire complete its work so it reignites.

Allow the fire to move through you with support is something very different.

It means letting yourself be held while you let go of what is actually burning away. Therapists, companions, or guides can help you recognize what is leaving and steady you as it goes.

Rest and care then become fuel for purification – not escape from it.

Burning out becomes burnout when you fight the fire.
Burning out stays purification when you allow it to move through you.

What becomes possible

When you stop fearing the fire, you can finally trust it.
You no longer resist exhaustion – you let it cleanse you.
You stop clinging to what is burning away, and you begin to feel lighter. Clearer. More yourself.

What remains after burning out is you – undistorted, radiant, free.

So let these words land in your body.
Feel the fire that once scared you become a warmth that holds you.
Breathe it in.
Let it burn away what is not yours.

Right now, you are remembering that:
You are not broken.
You are not weak.
You are not failing.
You are purifying.
And from that remembrance, something new becomes possible.

Truth anchors for burning out

Let these truths settle in you now as something to remember, to relive.
It’s a return to how your body already knows.
Receive these truths as you read slowly and breathe them into your bones, your cells, your energy field:

“Burning out is not my failure. It is my purification.

What feels like emptiness is my system emptying what is not mine.

This exhaustion is a sacred fire, not a collapse.

What burns away is distortion. What remains is the true me, my core essence.

The fire is my ally. I am safe to let it pass through.

It is safe for me to let go of the fears”.

Let these truths steady you.

From my heart to yours

If you are burning out, trust it.

This fire is not your enemy, it is your ally.
It is not the end of you. It is the end of what you are not.
At the end of the purification, you will rise from it much lighter.

If your body wishes to embody this truth more deeply, there is an audio transmission available for you.
It is a guided companion to help you integrate the remembrance that burning out is purification, not collapse, and to let your body feel this truth directly.

Click here to listen through my podcast (no sign-in required): https://open.spotify.com/episode/0Cf5FEXUeXab7ul7jajYIG?si=erjyscX5THiWJGCC4WBbcg

Click here when you choose to listen to it through my online Sanctuary: https://embodiment.upliftmylife.today/burnoutversusburningout

 

This audio transmission is my gift to you.

If you feel moved to offer a gift in return, you may do so from the same place this transmission lives: truth and lightness. You are welcome to do it through here: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/AstutiM

 

If this reflection stirred something in you, I would be honored to hear your reflections.
You are always welcome to write to me, whenever your heart feels called.

With love,

Astuti

💛💜

 

“May the remembrance within you bloom in perfect time.”

 

P.S. Ready to live your true wealth? Explore Authentic Wealth Embodiment (AWE) here: https://embodiment.upliftmylife.today/the-authentic-wealth-embodiment-program

Click here for a free discovery call with Astuti: https://astuti-martosudirdjo.youcanbook.me/

Go here to find out more about her self-paced online programs: https://embodiment.upliftmylife.today/

 

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25 Years Later: What Work Taught Me About Freedom, Love, and Truth

 

25 Years Later:

What Work Taught Me About Freedom, Love, and Truth

 

This year marks a threshold for me:
25 years since I graduated from university and stepped into the world of work.
A quarter century of showing up. Trying. Building. Unraveling. Becoming.

As I reflect, it isn’t only the achievements, titles, or projects that rise to the surface.
It’s the subtle, often invisible lessons that have shaped me – softened and humbled me – through my professional journey.

Work has been one of my greatest teachers.
Not only for what it allowed me to create, but for how it invited me to grow.
It called me back, again and again, to my own freedom and authentic self.

If I could gather the essence of these years into a few living truths, they would sound like this:

Work is not my identity; it is an expression of my being

In the beginning, I believed that my worth could be earned:
Through how much I could give.
Through how well I could perform.
Through how far I could stretch myself for others.

Restlessness lived beneath my drive.
Comfort felt unsafe. Familiarity made me feel weary.
I needed stretch goals because stillness triggered a quiet guilt in me.

But over time, I realized:
Work is not who I am.
It is how I express the essence of who I am becoming.

Freedom is an inner landscape, not a reward for effort

For years, I carried an urgency inside me : A push to grow. Achieve. Arrive “on time”.
I feared being too late for my calling, my success, my destiny.

I was my toughest boss. Far tougher than any I had in my external workplaces.

However, I learned that true freedom came when I softened into trust:
Trust in life’s rhythm and cycle. Just like the season of trees losing their leaves and snakes shading their skin, when it is my time to transform, I need to surrender to the process and timing.
Trust in my soul’s pace.
Trust in the knowing that I was never being measured by a clock.

I was always unfolding in my perfect time. I have my own Divine timing for everything.

I am here to receive provision in freedom within my authenticity 

I once believed I had to give before I could receive.

This was one of my deepest wounds – inherited, lived, and repeated:
The belief that I must prove my value before being supported.
That I had to work first… then be provided for.
That I could only receive when I’d already given.

This distorted programming made me overextend.
It placed pressure on my body, my nervous system, and my trust in life.
It shaped how I related to others, to work, to rest, and to Source.

Finally, something in me broke free and I now see:
Provision is not a transaction.
It is a birthright.
I am not here to earn love, safety, or support.
I am here to receive them – in freedom – as I live in my truth/authenticity.

Money is about safety – not about worth or love

For a long time, I had no relationship with money, even when I needed it to live.
I didn’t trust it. I didn’t want to depend on it.
I didn’t believe it had anything to do with my values – because it didn’t.

But over time, I came to see that money is not the enemy.
It is not a mirror of my worth.
It is not a substitute for love either.

It is one of the many ways safety can arrive in my physical form.
When held with integrity, money becomes a neutral – even sacred – energy.
It is a resource that supports my nervous system to soften, rest, and create from a place of fullness.

Money is not about who I am.
It is simply one of many ways life flows toward me.

Authenticity moves hearts more than striving ever could

The feedbacks that stay with me the most in all these years are not about my output.
It’s about my presence.

When I resigned from the Bank – unexpectedly, at least to others – my HR manager said, “I knew something was up just by observing you in meetings. You weren’t your usual self for some time”.

His words stayed with me.
They reminded me: Impact doesn’t begin with doing. It begins with being.

Authenticity creates connections.
It speaks louder than performance.
It carries a frequency that striving never can.

Burnout was a sacred threshold, not a failure

Seventeen years ago, deep physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual exhaustion cracked me open.
It felt like a collapse at the time.

Now, I see it for what it was: A portal. A breaking open. A holy pause.

It was the invitation to lay down the burden of trying to earn safety.
Through over-giving.
Through relentless doing.
Through self-abandonment.

Burnout was not the end.
It was the moment I was called back to myself.

True success is living joyfully in alignment with my soul

True success for me is not applause.
It is not just productivity and achievement.
It is not how many people I manage or help, or how well I’m seen.

It is peace in my heart.
Softness and depth in my breath.
Most deeply, the quiet embodiment that being who I am has always been enough.

Today, I continue to work.
Not to prove my worth.
Not to justify my dreams.
Not to belong.

I work from a different place now.
Work is no longer a test of how far I’ve come or can go.
It is a celebration of the essence that lives within me: Overflowing. Rooted. Free. 

If my younger self could see me now, I think she would smile and exhale, finally feeling safe to just be.

Whispers from my heart to yours

I offer this reflection to you, who are walking your own unique path of becoming.

Whether you’re a soul who has carried the weight of others for too long or one who has burned so much trying to arrive “on time”.

For a whisper only your heart can hear, may you remember:
You are unfolding in your own perfect rhythm.
May your work be an expression of your essence – not a measurement of your worth.
May your life feel like home.
May your breath feel like freedom.

If this reflection stirred something in you, I would be honored to hear your reflections.
You are always welcome to write to me, whenever your heart feels called.

With love,

Astuti

💛💜

 

“May the remembrance within you bloom in perfect time.”

 

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Living the sovereignty of patience

 

Living the Sovereignty of Patience

A transmission on timing, truth, and the power to move when it is time

 

The ache of being asked to wait

Be patient, they say.
When you’ve poured your heart out and heard nothing back.
When someone you love is unsure.
When a job interview goes silent.
When your body aches but healing takes time.
When the life you long for hasn’t arrived yet and you’re not sure if it will.

 

You try. You wait.

But, something inside you whispers…
This is not just waiting. This is something else.

For the first time, you wonder “Is this patience… or have I simply learned to stay still and put even when something or someone I wait for no longer meets me?”

What patience is not and what it truly is

Most of us were taught that being patient meant being good.
Sit still. Stay put.
Don’t complain.
Wait your turn.
Trust that it will all work out even if nothing changes.

We learned to stay quiet, even when we needed answers.
We stayed loyal, even when the direction had already shifted, not through words, but through absence, hesitation, or delay.
Even when the commitment was no longer alive, we kept showing up, hoping it would come back.

We didn’t want to seem difficult, or demanding, or ungrateful.

So…we waited because we were afraid to move.

We called that patience.

The fact is, this kind of patience is not presence.
It is tension in disguise.
It looks steady from the outside.

Inside however, we are holding back, holding on, holding our breaths.

We learned to wait like this because it once felt safer than being left behind.
It is because moving forward without certainty felt like too much to risk.

We stayed, and waited, and called it love, or loyalty, or faith, hoping it would keep us safe.

The truth is, real patience is not about putting our life on hold or dimming our voice while we wait for something to change.

Real patience is not:

  • Waiting for someone or something that’s no longer meeting us
  • Enduring silence and calling it trust
  • Staying in the same place because we don’t want to hurt anyone
  • Shrinking or slowing down our pace because someone else is not ready
  • Hoping things will change without checking if they’re still true

These aren’t signs of strength.
They’re signs that something in we have gone quiet because of the fear of uncertainy.

Real patience is steady and not stuck.
It is alive.
It knows when to breathe… and when to move.
It knows the difference between a pause that protects and a pause that drains.

True patience doesn’t ask us to wait endlessly.
It asks us to stay present:
present with our truth,
present with the moment,
present with ourselves.

Patience is not a waiting room.
Patience is a practice of noticing what is still aligned and what quietly is not anymore.

What true patience feels like when you’re aligned

When patience is rooted in alignment, it doesn’t feel like waiting.
It feels like living in your own timing  – grounded, present, and unhurried.

It is calm but not frozen.
It is still  but not shut down.

You can feel life moving, even when nothing has physically changed yet.

You’re not anxiously checking for updates, but you’re not pretending not to care either.

You’re present and honest with where things actually are.

True patience feels like:

  • Breathing fully, even in the unknown
  • Trusting your pace without trying to match someone else’s
  • Staying open without chasing
  • Holding space without abandoning yourself
  • Moving when it is time without waiting for permission

It is the knowing that you are still in your power, even when the outcome is unclear.
True patience is the difference between delaying your life and honoring your timing.

When patience is true, your mind is not spinning for answers. It is clear enough to be still.
Your heart is not grasping. It is steady, even if tender.
There is space inside you, not pressure.
And in that space, you can hear what is yours to do… and what is not.

Real patience feels like a steady inner signal:
“I’m here. I’m listening. I’ll move when it is time”

The moment you know it is time to move

Sometimes the most honest thing patience can do is end.

Not always with a dramatic goodbye.
But with a quiet clarity: “This is no longer true for me”

It doesn’t always come with warning.
It doesn’t always come with full closure, either.
But it does come with peace because your body stops holding its breath.
Then, you stop trying to stay where life no longer meets you.

You don’t need a reason that satisfies everyone.

You just feel the moment:

  • when the commitment is no longer mutual
  • when the silence no longer feels sacred
  • when your loyalty starts costing you your aliveness
  • when staying would mean leaving yourself

And before you move your body, you breathe differently.
It is the breath that reconnects you to yourself.

That one breath is the beginning.
The quiet leap.
The signal that you are no longer willing to delay your life for something that is not meeting you.

You don’t need a full plan to choose to move.
You only need one breath that tells the truth and the willingness to follow it.

When you move in alignment, you are no longer waiting.
You are living.
And in that living, you make space for what is truly meant for you to arrive.

Living the sovereignty of patience

Let these truths settle in you now as something to remember.

This is not a new concept to adopt. Instead, it is a return to how your body already knows.

Receive these as you read slowly and breathe them into your bones.

“You are allowed to stop waiting where waiting has become heavy.
You are allowed to move when the moment no longer mirrors your devotion.
You are allowed to stay in your own pace without apology.

Sovereign patience feels different.
It is not about how long you wait.
It is about how honestly you live inside each moment.

You no longer use stillness to prove your goodness.
You no longer shrink your life to avoid disappointing others.
You no longer abandon your knowing for the sake of being “patient”.

Instead, you become steady in your timing.
You feel what is true and you trust that feeling.
You let go of the wait when clarity arrives because you’re staying honest, not giving up.

You’re not afraid of the pause anymore because you know the difference between a pause that nourishes and a pause that drains.

You no longer wait from fear.
You move from knowing. And in that knowing, you breathe more easily.

You take up your full space again.
You create room for what can actually meet you fully, presently, and without delay.

You don’t rush.
You don’t shrink.
You simply live in your own time.

This is the sovereignty of patience”

Reflection invitations

  • Where in your life have you been calling something patience… but it no longer feels aligned?
  • What would shift if you trusted your own timing more than someone else’s pace?
  • What truth has been quietly asking you to move and are you ready to listen?

Whispers from my heart to yours

May you feel the breath that changes everything.
May you stop calling waiting a virtue when it costs you your peace.
May you move from the truth your body already knows.

May your timing be your own.
May your clarity be enough.
May your life meet you where you truly are.

If your body wishes to embody this truth more deeply, there is an audio transmission waiting for you.
It is a guided companion to help you remember how aligned patience sounds, feels, and moves through your nervous system.

Go here to access it via podcast (no sign in required)  https://open.spotify.com/episode/1Q7BEfUEviDXsUNCIFYMNg?si=l6Xzp_LVT1OQLJlCH6aIkQ

or on my online Sanctuary of Wholeness: https://embodiment.upliftmylife.today/sovereigntyofpatience

This is my gift to you. If you feel moved to offer a gift in return, you may do so from the same place this transmission lives: truth and love. You are welcome to do so through here: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/AstutiM

With love,

Astuti

💛💜

 

 

 

“May the remembrance within you bloom in perfect time.”

 

P.S. Ready to live your true wealth? Explore Authentic Wealth Embodiment (AWE) here: https://embodiment.upliftmylife.today/the-authentic-wealth-embodiment-program

Click here for a free discovery call with Astuti: https://astuti-martosudirdjo.youcanbook.me/

Go here to find out more about her self-paced online programs: https://embodiment.upliftmylife.today/

 

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When Your Inner Voices Speak, Your Body Listens

 

When Your Inner Voices Speak, Your Body Listens

 

We often think of the body as something we “manage” – exercising, fuelling, resting.


But your body is far more than a machine. It’s a living mirror of your inner world.

Every time your mind, heart or soul speaks, your body responds.

Sometimes it’s in subtle ways: a clenched jaw, a restless leg, or a sudden warmth in the chest.

Other times, it’s unmistakable: tears with no story, goosebumps of truth, or a peace that doesn’t make sense.

Your body doesn’t just listen.

It translates your inner voices into sensations, signals, and patterns you can notice.

Why this matters in life, especially during transformation 

Understanding the messages from your mind, heart, body, and soul is not a luxury.

It’s a necessity, especially during times of transformation.

Change often brings confusion, resistance, and inner conflict.

Your mind might overthink, your heart might ache, your body might tense, and your soul might whisper truths you don’t yet understand.

If you don’t recognise which voice is speaking, it’s easy to feel lost or stuck.

And when these signals are ignored, the cost is high:

  • Burnout from pushing through the mind’s distortions.
  • Emotional shutdown from a heart that isn’t heard.
  • Chronic stress in the body that silently accumulates.
  • A sense of hollowness when the soul’s wisdom goes unanswered.

This is how old patterns repeat, even when we long for change.

When you can discern the authentic signals from the distorted ones, you begin to navigate transformation with clarity and trust.

You stop fighting yourself and start walking alongside your own inner guidance.

This is what allows real, lasting change to take root.

Authentic vs. Distorted: why it matters

One of the most important distinctions I share in this guide is between authentic expression and distorted patterns.

Authentic means your system is aligned with your truth. You feel grounded, clear, and at home within yourself – even in hard moments.

Distorted means your body is still trying to protect you, but from a place shaped by fear, pressure, or past wounds. It can feel tight, foggy, or disconnected.

Neither is wrong. Both are invitations.

Distortion isn’t failure.

It’s simply your body asking you to return to what’s true and authentic to you.

Why I created this guide

I created How Your Body Speaks When Your Inner Voices Speak as a practical tool for you to:

  • Recognize when your mind is in overdrive versus when it’s clear.
  • Notice how your heart opens authentically versus when it collapses in longing.
  • Listen for the quiet signals of your soul and discern them from disconnection.
  • Begin to walk the path of your authentic truth in real time.

It’s not about silencing any part of you.

It’s about letting your inner voices cooperate instead of competing so you can live with more unity, clarity, and power.

Download the Full Guide

I’ve made the full PDF available for you in my online sanctuary.

👉 Access How Your Body Speaks When Your Inner Voices Speak here: https://embodiment.upliftmylife.today/howyourbodyspeaks

You’ll be asked to sign in. This is simply so you can receive the guide within a safe, dedicated space where all my resources live.

Once you enter, the guide is yours to download and explore anytime.

I invite you to spend time with it slowly. Notice which sections resonate most with your current season of life.

Your body has always been speaking. Will you listen now? 

With love,
Astuti

💛💜

 

 

 

“May the remembrance within you bloom in perfect time.”

 

P.S. Ready to live your true wealth? Explore Authentic Wealth Embodiment (AWE) here: https://embodiment.upliftmylife.today/the-authentic-wealth-embodiment-program

Click here for a free discovery call with Astuti: https://astuti-martosudirdjo.youcanbook.me/

Go here to find out more about her self-paced online programs: https://embodiment.upliftmylife.today/

 

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When Love Costs Life

When Love Costs Life:

Healing The Hidden Wound In Parenting And Leadership

 

My invitation:

This is not a piece to read with your mind alone.
It is a remembrance to be felt with your whole being.
Let your breath slow. Let your body listen.
Let what resonates rise, and what doesn’t fall away.

You are here to meet what is true for you – in your own time, in your own way.

It’s common to hear people say,
“I live for my children”.
“Everything I do is for them”.

While the devotion is beautiful, it reveals something deeper: a belief that love must come through sacrifice.
That to be a good parent, leader, or guide, one must give everything – even at the cost of oneself.

But is that truly love?
Or is it a pattern that keeps us from showing the next generation what life could really be?

Love is a word we often misplace.

Many actions driven by fear, control, guilt, obligation, or even unhealed trauma are wrapped in the label of “love”.

When the label is misplaced, it creates confusion.
It teaches children and adults that love equals control.
That love equals self-abandonment.
That love demands sacrifice.

But real love is different.

Real love fuels life.
It expands.
It liberates.
It honors sovereignty.

What is love, really?

Love is not just a feeling, though it can be felt.
Love is not just a presence, though it can be sensed.
Love is not just a choice, though it asks to be chosen.

Love is a frequency. A living current.
It flows naturally when the truth of your being is allowed to exist.
It is what you return to when nothing is forced, fixed, or feared.

Love is the natural state of what remains when fear is gone.
It is not manufactured.
It is revealed.

You know it is love when:

  • You feel safe to be fully yourself.
  • You are not asked to shrink, betray, or abandon yourself to belong.
  • There is no game. No transaction.
  • You are seen without being managed.
  • You are honored even when you are different.
  • You expand in their presence, not disappear.
  • There is freedom in the bond, not fear of loss.

Love maybe messy and challenging, but it is clean.
It may bring up wounds, but it does not become the wound.
It invites healing, not reenactment.
It breathes truth, not distortion.

Love is not intensity.
Intensity can come from chaos, drama, or trauma.
Love – real love – is spacious.
It has depth without overwhelm.
Clarity without control.
Passion without possession.

Love is not just something we feel.
It is something we become.
When people become it, there is no need to prove it.

How can we tell when “love” is misplaced?

Here are a few simple self-check questions:

  • Does this action come from expansion or contraction? (Love expands. Fear contracts.)
  • Am I honoring my own truth, or abandoning myself to be accepted or needed?
  • Am I trying to control an outcome because I’m afraid of loss or rejection?
  • Would I still choose this if there were no guilt, fear, or expectation involved?
  • Is this about truly seeing and supporting the other person or about fulfilling my own unhealed needs?

When we pause and ask ourselves these questions, we begin to see clearly.
True love does not diminish life. It breathes life into us.

True love says:
“I want to see you fully alive, even if that means you choose differently than I would”.

The high cost of smallness

When a parent erases themselves for their child, the child often grows up carrying invisible burdens:

  • Feeling responsible for their parent’s happiness.
  • Believing that thriving comes at the cost of someone else’s well-being.
  • Learning that love equals self-abandonment.
  • Shrinking themselves to stay safe or belong.

Very often, children unconsciously self-sabotage their own success, happiness, or authenticity out of loyalty to their parents’ patterns.
It becomes an unspoken contract: “If you couldn’t live fully, I won’t either”.
“If you stayed small for me, I’ll stay small for you”.

This misplaced loyalty is not love.
It is a distortion that keeps generation after generation trapped in cycles of limitation.

We must stop hiding behind our children as an excuse for our own smallness.

Choosing vitality, wholeness, and freedom is not selfish.

It is leadership. It is the breaking of an invisible chain.

This smallness is expensive.

It costs us mentally, physically, emotionally, and spiritually.

It robs us of vitality, joy, and true connection – not just individually, but across entire family lines.

The price is too high.

Authenticity is the real inheritance

The real wealth we can pass on is not financial security alone.
The real wealth is existence based on authenticity; living truths.

A parent (or leader, or mentor) who chooses to live fully – who says yes to their own truth, health, dreams, and beingness – is a living proof to their child (and their members):

  • It’s safe to exist.
  • It’s safe to be whole.
  • It’s safe to thrive without guilt.

When we live authentically, we model a life where love and life are not in opposition.

We break the old contract that says “I must die inside so you can live”.
Instead, we birth a new one: “I will live fully, and in doing so, show you that you can too”.

An invitations to parents and to all of us

If you’re a parent, remember:
Your life is not a debt to be paid. Your life is a gift to be lived.

To the rest of us, remember:
You are still shaping the world the next generation will inherit.


The more you embody your authentic self, the more space you create for the next generation to do the same.

We don’t need more martyrs.
We need more living, breathing, sovereign souls who show that life itself is sacred.

When love costs our vitality, it is no longer love.
When love fuels our life, it becomes an endless source of freedom.

Reflection questions:

  • Where have I inherited the belief that love must equal sacrifice or smallness?
  • In what ways have I unconsciously stayed small out of loyalty to my parents’ or ancestors’ patterns?
  • What has it already cost me – mentally, physically, emotionally, and spiritually – to stay small?
  • What would change if I declared my existence sacred and chose to live fully, without guilt?
  • What true wealth could I create and pass forward if I embodied my authentic self now?

At the heart of our existence – beneath the work, the parenting, the choices, the longing – is the call to come home to love.
It is the one truth beneath all wars and all healing.

The absence of love fractures us.
The presence of love restores us.

When love is real and alive, it fuels more than money ever could, reaches further than status ever will, and heals deeper than power ever has.

This transmission is not a demand to believe, but an invitation to be received.
May you meet this transmission in a way that is true to you.
Let it speak to what is ready. Let it pass by what is not.

You may also receive this as an audio transmission – voiced in my own breath and rhythm, and infused with 528 Hz – the frequency of love, restoration, and remembrance.
Let this truth not only be read, but felt. Heard. Received by your body.

Listen on Spotify (no sign-in required) or here https://embodiment.upliftmylife.today/whenlovecostslife

This is a gift. You may receive it freely. If you feel moved to offer something in return, you’re welcome to make a donation in the amount that feels true for you here.

 

May the love you remember – and become – be the most powerful legacy you offer the world 💛💜

With love,
Astuti

 

 

 

“May the remembrance within you bloom in perfect time.”

 

P.S. Ready to live your true wealth? Explore Authentic Wealth Embodiment (AWE) here: https://embodiment.upliftmylife.today/the-authentic-wealth-embodiment-program

Click here for a free discovery call with Astuti: https://astuti-martosudirdjo.youcanbook.me/

Go here to find out more about her self-paced online programs: https://embodiment.upliftmylife.today/

 

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