00:00Good morning, my name is Phil Hewitt, Group Arts Editor at Sussex Newspapers. Lovely this morning
00:06to speak to Tracey McEachran. Now, you've written a fabulous sounding book, a really fascinating
00:11book, The Female Guru. Now, tell me more about that, but specifically, you argue in this book
00:17that we have lost a connection, an inner connection to an inner wisdom. What is that, and how do we
00:24set about finding it again? Well, inner wisdom, it's something that we all have. It's those moments
00:32in life when you have this quiet knowing that you need to do something. It may be even to contact a
00:40friend, or there's a problem, and you think, actually, we've gone about this the wrong way.
00:45I know, I know. And it sort of feels like it comes from nowhere. But it's more of a, let's say,
00:52heart thing than a head thing, the intuition. So why have we lost that connection, do you think?
01:00And it's men as well as women, isn't it? It's absolutely men and women, because we've moved
01:05more and more towards that left brain. In a way, the more sophisticated we've got, the more out of
01:13touch we are with that innate wisdom. So we want to prove everything, we want evidence. And we move
01:18down that left brain fragmentation of things. And so we lose touch with the whole, that wisdom that
01:26comes from looking at the bigger picture. And you would say there are various activities we can
01:32pursue that will promote that connection, that wisdom will get it back for us. Absolutely. So if you talk to
01:40runners, if you talk to people that will go wild swimming, they'll talk about that in a way that's
01:47a whole body experience that soothes the soul, calms them. And what in a way what they're doing is
01:55calming any fears that they have. So they come from a place of openness. And therefore the intuition
02:04can come through there's something about getting into the water when it's really cold, that you drop
02:09out of all thinking, and you're just totally present. So, so those types of activity, but
02:17even a small thing, if you get caught up in emails through the day, and you just go, I'm just going to
02:23go and make a cup of tea, and you drop out of thinking, make go through a ritual, which is making
02:27a cup of tea, come back to your desk, you just come back in a different state of being.
02:33So it's moving away from the rational and reconnecting with something much more deeply
02:38intuitive, presumably. Absolutely. Yes.
02:42Wow. And tell me more about how you do that then. So things like dancing and running and that cup of
02:48tea, can we actually force it to happen, that reconnection?
02:53Well, what you can't force anything, but what you can do is do activities that facilitate.
02:58Yeah. Even doodling, you know, creativity is a lovely way of writing. There's something called
03:04the morning pages, where you just write in the morning, a conscious stream, and that will get
03:10you really in connection with your intuition. So there's lots and lots of things.
03:16And what difference will we notice to ourselves, to our behaviour, if we do re-establish that connection?
03:21Well, you calm your whole system down, so you're less operating from a place of stress and fear.
03:26which means you're better able to make good decisions, because you're making it from a place
03:33of standard. So I sort of say observer of something rather than really in it. You know, when we get
03:40completely caught up without thinking around a subject, we can't see it. Whereas if we go and make a cup
03:48of tea, if we do some drawing, we step back a little bit and we can become an observer. And therefore,
03:55we just step out of that fear.
03:58Fantastic. Well, it sounds fascinating. It sounds deeply fascinating. It's The Female Guru.
04:03Where can people buy the book?
04:05Well, it's available online. If you Google The Female Guru, you will, it's a top thing that comes up.
04:12It's York Bookshop. It's available online. I've yet to put it into Amazon. I'm quite partial to
04:20local bookshops and smaller traders.
04:23That's good to hear.
04:25You can buy it online, yes.
04:27Fantastic. We're good luck with it. It sounds terrific. Lovely to meet you and to speak to you.
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